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

Program Title:
The reading experiment: performing poets in support of WBAI (Episode 33 of 33, Part 2 of 2)
Series Title:
The free music store
PRA Archive #: 
BC0709.33B
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Program
pbcoreAssetDate: 
Asset Date (YYYY-MM-DD ONLY): 
1975-05-16
dateType: 
broadcast
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, 16 May 1975.
Station: 
WBAI
Item duration: 
2 reels (108 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Keywords: 
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Troupe, Quincy.
Schwerner, Armand.
Oppenheimer, Joel.
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
Reznikoff, Charles.
Metcalf, Paul.
Edson, Russell.
Weiss, Mark.
Poetry.
Poetry free music store / produced by Mark Weiss.
Description: 

A group reading of poetry for WBAI's Free Music Store, recorded on May 16, 1975. Part 2 of this recording begins with Joel Oppenheimer, who reads selections from The woman poems (Bobbs-Merrill Co.), including Natural order poem, The lady of madness, Naked poem, Child poem, Screaming poem, Death poem, Mirror poem, Meat poem, Getting there, and Prayer poems #2, and a new poem called Celebrating the peace. Paul Metcalf reads Darlington, South Carolina, Sable Island, and Moby's brothel. Russell Edson reads Mother, The fall, The broken daughter, Anti-matter, The pride of dream man, A performance at Hog Theater, Conjugal, A man who writes, The hemarrhoid epidemic, The dog's dinner, The gingerbread woman, The pilot, The little lady, A new life and The toy-maker. Armand Schwerner reads Tablet 7 and The work. Recorded by Ceil Muller and Dave Marx. Produced by Mark Weiss and Ira Weitzman for WBAI.

This recording was previously cataloged as BC2580.

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6473_P01
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1/4 inch audio tape
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PRA Vault Shelves
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2 reels (108 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Contributor: 
Mark Weiss
Role: 
Host
Producer
Contributor: 
Joel Oppenheimer
Role: 
Speaker
Contributor: 
Paul Metcalf
Role: 
Speaker
Contributor: 
Russell Edson
Role: 
Speaker
Contributor: 
Armand Schwerner
Role: 
Speaker
Contributor: 
Ira Weitzman
Role: 
Executive Producer
Contributor: 
Ceil Muller
Role: 
Engineer
Contributor: 
David Marx
Role: 
Engineer
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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The reading experiment: performing poets in support of WBAI (Episode 33 of 33, Part 2 of 2)
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View Folio here (at Archive.org): 
WBAI Folio, January 1976, p. 13
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