Audio Recording The first group of poets to receive awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Dec. 12, 1966

Title

• The first group of poets to receive awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Dec. 12, 1966

Names

• Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014.
• Peterson, Robert, 1924-2000.
• Van Duyn, Mona.
• Salomon, Isidore Lawrence, 1899-1985.
• Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.
• Kizer, Carolyn.
• Dickey, James.
• National Endowment for the Arts.
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1966.

Contents

• Maxine Kumin reads: A fish who could not swim from No one writes a letter to the snail -- From The privilege: Morning swim ; Quarry, Pigeon Cove -- From Halfway: Between them and Portugal ; Fräulein reads instructive rhymes ; Halfway -- From The privilege: Sisyphus, Mother Rosarine ; The pawnbroker -- Mr. Peterson reads: Monody for Sheila ; An evening poem ; On a fever, the 93rd day of wandering ; Two short divorce poems ; Beach at Cronkite ; Now and then I find myself in a busy part of the city ; In the Two A.M. Club, a working man's bar ; My hands are folded like napkins in my lap ; The dog is breaking down ; The young conquistador arrives at odd hours without an appointment ; The yellow cat speeds down the hall at midnight ; Climbing steep trail with webbed feet --
• Miss Van Duyn reads: A time of bees ; The voyeur ; In the cold kingdom ; The miser -- Mr. Salomon reads: From Unit and universe : Song for the greenwood fawn ; Ballad of Eudora ; Remonstrance ; Fit remembrance ; Child of Adam ; From his translation of Genoa, by Dino Campana ; From his translation of Poems, by Carlo Betocchi. At noon I watch the sun shine ; Verses to Emilia -- Poems by Hayden Carruth read by Carolyn Kizer and James Dickey: Ontological episode of the asylum ; Algeria ; On a certain engagement south of Seoul.

Notes

• -  Introductions by L. Quincy Mumford, Carolyn Kizer, and James Dickey.
• -  Hayden Carruth also received an award but was not present for this reading.
• -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
• -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 176.

Medium

• 1 sound tape reel (2 hrs.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LWO 4958

Library of Congress Control Number

• 95770638

Online Format

• audio

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/95770638

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