May Swenson reads at the Poetry Center

This is a recording of May Swenson (1913 - 1989) reading from her own work at the YM-YWHA Poetry Center in New York City. On Part 1, Swenson reads Living Tenderly, The Surface, Fountain Piece, The Exchange, The Engagement, Death, Great Smoothener, At First, At Last (introduced as A Diagram of Life), The Lightning, Working on Wall Street, Snow in New York, A Bird's Life, The Watch, A Fixture, To Make a Play, and Italian Sampler. On Part 2, Swenson reads The Centaur, Flying Home from Utah, and While Seated in a Plane. The reading took place on December 16, 1965.