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All Poets Welcome
The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s
Daniel Kane
Playlist for Compact Disc
1. Denise Levertov, "O Taste and See" (0:47)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, March 20, 1967
2. Paul Blackburn, "Clickety-Clack" (3:00)
Brooklyn Civic Center, Brooklyn, New York, May 22, 1964
3. Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos, excerpt from "Phoneme Dance in Memoriam John Cage" (4:00)
From the compact disc Open Secrets (XI 110), Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 1993
4. David Antin, "Who Are My Friends" (3:07)
Café Le Metro, New York City, September 1, 1965
5. Jerome Rothenberg, "A Valentine, No, a Valedictory for Gertrude Stein" (0:23)
Café Le Metro, New York City, September 1, 1965
6. Armand Schwerner, selection from "The Tablets" (5:06)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, April 6, 1966
7. Clayton Eshleman, "Notebook Entry 1968" (3:03)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, March 4, 1968
8. Robert Creeley, "The Charm," "A STEP," and "KATE'S" (1:30)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 17, 1967
9. Robert Kelly, Troubadour text, translated by Robert Kelly (0:42)
Café Cino, New York City, 1960
10. John Wieners, "Poem for Cocksuckers" (1:08)
Café Le Metro, New York City, 1963
11. Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (2:44)
Pacifica Studios, Berkeley, California, Oct 25, 1956. From the compact disc Holy Soul Jelly Roll, Rhino Records, 1994
12. Amiri Baraka, "A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand" (1:10)
Poetry Society of America, New York City, December 26, 1963
13. John Ashbery, "They Dream Only of America" (1:07)
Washington Square Gallery, New York City, August 23, 1964
14. John Ashbery, "Thoughts of a Young Girl" (0:40)
Washington Square Gallery, New York City, August 23, 1964
15. Frank O'Hara, "Naphtha" (1:45)
State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964
16. Frank O'Hara, "Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)" (0:44)
State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964
17. Kenneth Koch, "To My Audience" (2:24)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, January 10, 1968
18. Bill Berkson, "I Feel Free" (1:14)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 29, 1969
19. Bill Berkson, "Poem" (0:41)
Read over phone, November 2000
20. Ron Padgett, "Detach Invading" (1:05)
Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975
21. Ron Padgett, "Joe Brainard's Painting 'Bingo'" (1:05)
Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975
22. Ron Padgett, "Nothing in That Drawer" (0:29)
Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975
23. Joe Brainard, selection from I Remember (1:13)
Venue and date unknown
24. Dick Gallup, "Where I Hang My Hat" (0:33)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, September 27, 1967
25. Lorenzo Thomas, "Five Leaf Clover" (1:07)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 16, 2001
26. Anne Waldman, "Poem in New York" (1:04)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, November 8, 1967
27. Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, selection from "Memorial Day" (4:55)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, Memorial Day, 1974
28. Ted Berrigan, "Sonnet I," "Sonnet II," "Sonnet III," and "A Final Sonnet" (3:37)
St. Mark's Church, New York City, 1968
29. Clark Coolidge, "Machinations Calcite" (2:06)
Franconia College, Franconia, New Hampshire, circa 1971
30. Alice Notley, "How to Really Get an Apartment" (0:48)
University of California, San Diego, April 25, 1989
31. Joe Ceravolo, "A Song of Autumn" (0:54)
Recorded at Ceravolo's home, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Spring 1968
32. Joe Ceravolo, "Drunken Winter" (0:23)
Recorded at Ceravolo's home, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Spring 1968
33. Bernadette Mayer, "Sonnet—You Jerk, You Didn't Call Me Up" and "Warren Finney" (2:02)
University of California, San Diego, November 15, 1989
34. Bernadette Mayer, "Sonnet—Other Than What's Gone On in Stupid Art" (0:52)
University of California, San Diego, November 15, 1989