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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Avant-garde poetry tape recordings
Creator:
Silverton, Michael
Creator:
WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.)
Creator:
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0961
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear Feet
(42 open reel audiotapes)
Date (inclusive): 1966-1967
Abstract: Collection consists of 42 reel-to-reel tapes recorded by Michael Silverton for an avant-garde poetry series for New York radio
station WNYC in 1966, and another for radio station WBAI in 1967.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. Audiovisual
materials are not currently available for access, unless otherwise noted in a Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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[Identification of item], Avant-garde poetry tape recordings (Collection 961). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942335963606533
Collection consists of 42 reel-to-reel tapes recorded by Michael Silverton for an avant-garde poetry series for New York radio
station WNYC in 1966, and another for radio station WBAI in 1967. Interviewees include: Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Allan
Kaplan, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Benedikt, Russell Edson, Kenward Elmslie, Ted Berrigan, Joseph Ceravolo, Sotere Torregian,
Lorenzo Thomas, John Perreault, Aram Saroyan, Jim Brodey, Peter Schjeedahl, Dick Gallup, Kathy Frazer, Tony Towle, Frank O'Hara
(memorial), A. Schweiner, David Antin, Ted Greenwald, Lewis Warsh, Anne Waldman, Shelley Slater, Frank Kuenstler, Frank Lima,
Gerald Hopman, Paul Blackburn, Joe Brainard, Stanley Moss, Michael O'Brien, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Don Gardner, Michael Brownstein,
Milton Gilman, Robert Gilman, and Barton Midwood.
Description derived from in-house card file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Audiotapes.