Poets on Video
Nov 9, 1989
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Poets on Video was a monthly screening series that showcased documentation of poetry performances held in the collections of Western Front and the American Poetry Archive. Each event featured a book table by Proprioception Books.
This program included readings by Basil Bunting reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1976, Louis Zukofsky reading a section from Catullus during an interview in his New York Apartment in 1966, and Kathy Acker reading from Kathy Goes to Haiti the Grand Luxe Hall in 1977.
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