Poets on Video

Sep 21, 1989
Field:

Screening

 Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

 Time:

9:00 p.m.

Description:

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. The events featured a book table by Proprioception Books.

The American Poetry Archive program included documentation of George Oppen reading “Seascape: Needles Eye,” and Robert Duncan reading from Dante Etudes and other poems on February 23, 1987; and Mary Oppen reading a selection of prose works, including excerpts from her biography Meaning A Life (1978) on November 29, 1978. 

The evening also featured documentation from Nancy Cole’s solo performance Gertrude Stein’s Gertrude Stein in the Grand Luxe Hall on November 18, 1975. 

Curated by Charles Watts.

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