POETRY & POETS
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Robert Frost reads his own poetry.
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Poems by Robert Lowell / read by Lewis Hill.
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Poems of Marianne Moore / read by Lewis Hill.
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Four poems of Wallace Stevens / read by Lewis Hill.
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Suicide note from a cockroach in a low-income housing project and other poems (Episode 7 of 33)
Pedro Pietri (1944-2004), co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, reads selections from his work at WBAI’s Free Music Store, March 1972. The evening was organized by the Young Lords Party, the Puerto Rican activist group with which Pietri was affiliated. Pietri reads Sex and the Virgin Mary [first poem introduced, Blip…
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The language of flowers (Episode 20 of 29)
The Word Players salute spring with a performance of flower poems by various authors. The collection of poems is a Victorian analysis of flowers, taken from the 1963 reissue of the book The Illustrated Language of Flowers, originally compiled by Mrs. Anna Christian Burke in 1856. The poems relate to the conception that people have…
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Thou shall not kill : a memorial for Dylan Thomas / written and read by Kenneth Rexroth.
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There’s a little ambiguity over there among the bluebells, and other theater poems (Episode 29 of 29)
A series of poetic plays by Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) demonstrating the possibilities of selection and juxtaposition. This was the final production of the Word Players. The Word Players are: David Haight, Susan Miller, Sherry Pockell, Ann Rivers, Julie Scherer and Edgar Walker. Directed by Baird Searles, with technical production by David Rapkin. “There’s a little…