KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Stories and Poems by Mort Bennett and others

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1971.05.19

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

50 min

Dates

1971-05-19 | broadcast
| 1971-05-19 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian talks with Mort Bennett, a Berkeley California writer, who reads several short stories and poems written by himself, as well as some translations he has made of poems by others.

Genres

Poetry
Literature

Musical Selections

A Good Job / Mort Bennett -- The Cuckoo [trans. by Mort Bennett] / Bohdan Czeszko -- The Matinee-Goers [excerpt, trans. by Mort Bennett] / Martin Walser -- Otto’s Birthday Present, An Oyster for My Soul / Mort Bennett -- Taste of Dragons / Mort Bennett -- Strange Landscape / Mort Bennett -- Tell Richard / Mort Bennett -- A Still Shot / Mort Bennett

Subjects

Short stories
Poetry

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Bennett, Mort
Czeszko, Bohdan
Walser, Martin, 1927-