Alma Routsong, author of “Patience and Sarah” under the pen name Isabel Miller, and host Ronald Gold read poems by gay and lesbian poets. Poems read: Gertrude Stein – Love song of Alice B.; Walt Whitman – Calamus 24 and 25; Fran Winant – Penny; Alta – The art of enforced deprivation; Ian Young – Honi soit qui mal y pense; May Swenson – Two-part parable; Ron Schreiber – Tracking me down; Judy Grahn – A mock interrogation; George Whitmore – A political poem; Judy Grahn – Carol, in the park, chewing on straws; Ron Schreiber – On to Ithaca; May Swenson – Poet to tiger; George Whitmore – Riis Park; Ian Young – A trick letter for a cowboy; Amy Lowell – Madonna of the evening flowers; May Swenson – A trellis for R.; Walt Whitman – Of the terrible doubt of appearances; Walt Whitman – When I heard at the close of day; Walt Whitman – I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing; Walt Whitman – Full of life, now. Routsong and Gold conclude by reading Judy Grahn’s The psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke.
Gay poetry / read by Alma Routsong and Ronald Gold.
PRA Archive #:
IZ0008
Date Recorded On:
1975
Date Broadcast On:
WBAI, Sept. 2, 1975.
Item Duration:
1 reel (55 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
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- PRA Archive #: IZ0008
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- Program: Gay poetry / read by Alma Routsong and Ronald Gold.
- Series: Gay alternatives
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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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- Distributor: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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- Host: Ronald Gold
- Guest: Alma Routsong