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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: The Dial-A-Poem Poets, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1973.07.18.B

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

123 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1973-07-25 | broadcast
| 1973-07-25 | created

Description

Amirkhanian introduces a program of poetry from the Dial-A-Poem exhibits organized by John Giorno at the Museum of Modern Art and other spaces. These poems were originally available to the general public via a special telephone number from the The Architectural League of New York. However due to some of the adult content contained in certain pieces the project was threatened with lawsuit’s from concerned, conservative parents and the telephone number was eventually disconnected. John Giorno then turned to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as a venue for his collaborative project. However the radical political content of many of the works caused a great deal of concern and despite strong support from the then current director, the show was eventually pulled. The show then moved to a number of different venues and many of the poems have since been published as an audio recording. Poems heard on this program include works by John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Emmett Williams, Ed Sanders, Taylor Mead, Jim Carroll, Aram Saroyan, Anne Waldman, Bobby Seale, and many others.

Genres

Poetry
Literature

Musical Selections

Dust / Emmet Williams -- Cemetery Hill / Ed Sanders -- Motorcycles / Taylor Mead -- Green Automobile 1953 / Allen Ginsberg -- The Messenger for Allen Ginsberg / Robert Creeley -- I Know a Man / Robert Creeley -- Poems / Harris Schiff -- Kali / Lenore Kandel -- Not a Cricket / Aram Saroyan -- Scenes of Life at the Capital [excerpt] / Philip Whalen -- The Sonnets [excerpt] / Ted Berrigan -- I Am That I Am / Brion Gysin -- The Destruction of America / John Sinclair -- How the Sestina (Yawn) Works / Anne Waldman -- I Will Not Pay Taxes Until / Heathcote Williams -- The Louisiana Weekly No. 1 / David Henderson -- Ruckus Poem Part 1 / David Henderson -- Fillmore East speech May 20, 1968 [excerpt] / Bobby Seale -- Fillmore East speech May 20, 1968 [excerpt] / Kathleen Cleaver -- Blake Song: Merrily We Welcome in the Year / Allen Ginsberg

Subjects

Poetry
Literature, Experimental
Cut-ups (Literary form)
Sound poetry
Poetry -- Readings with music

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.