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

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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