The reading experiment: performing poets in support of WBAI (Episode 33 of 33, Part 1 of 2)

A group reading of poetry for WBAI's Free Music Store, recorded in spring of 1975. Part 1 of this recording features Charles Reznikoff reading selections from The collected poems of Charles Reznikoff, 1918-1975, ed. Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press). Rochelle Owens reads excerpts from The Joe 82 creation poems (Black Sparrow press). Muriel Rukeyser reads St. roach, Despisals, Dream drumming, and Double ode. Quincy Troupe reads These days: the legacy of slow turning, The old people speak of death, The other night, After hearing a radio announcement, Up sun, south of Alaska: a short Black American history, and At the end, at the end. Produced by Mark Weiss and Ira Weitzman for WBAI.

This recording was previously cataloged as BC2580.