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Justice, Donald 1979; 1997

Friday, November 9, 1979
Wednesday, April 16, 1997
Vintage poster of Donald Justice's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Donald Justice’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

We have climbed the mountain,
There’s nothing more to do.
It is terrible to come down
To the valley
Where, amidst many flower,
One thinks of snow…

– Donald Justice, “Here in Katmandu”

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Read this interview with Donald Justice from The Iowa Review:

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You would not recognize me.
Mine is the face which blooms in
The dank mirrors of washrooms
As you grope for the light switch.

– Donald Justice, “The Tourist From Syracuse”

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Ford, Charles Henri 1976

Friday, April 9, 1976
Charles Henri Ford, reading his poetry
Accompanied by Indra of Nepal, on guitar, and showing Johnny Minotaur, a new film by Ford

the blood grows, the hair flows, the river burns,
from the veins, from the skin, by the home of the child,
pulled and repelled by Bloody Bones;
renewal of the swoon

– Charles Henri Ford, “The Bad Habit”

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Read this interview with Charles Henri Ford from BOMB Magazine:

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Glück, Louise 1977; 2004

Friday, January 21, 1977
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Vintage poster of Louise Glück's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago

Vintage poster of Louise Glück’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago

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At dawn the rain abated. I did the things
one does in daylight, I acquitted myself,
but I moved like a sleepwalker.

– Louise Glück, “Eros”

Broadside of “Eros” by Louise Glück

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Listen to Louise Glück’s September 9, 2004 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Reading Series:

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The grass below the willow
Of my daughter’s wash is curled
With earthworms, and the world
Is measured into row on row
Of unspiced houses, painted to seem real.

– Louise Glück, “Grandmother in the Garden”

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Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Tom Raworth, Diane di Prima, Kimiko Hahn, Eugene Gloria, Patricia Smith, Luis Rodriguez, Robert Bly, Brian Turner, Bruce Weigl, Tyehimba Jess, A. Van Jordan, Arielle Greenberg, Billy Corgan, Franz Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Louise Glück, and Alicia Ostriker.

Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Tom Raworth, Diane di Prima, Kimiko Hahn, Eugene Gloria, Patricia Smith, Luis Rodriguez, Robert Bly, Brian Turner, Bruce Weigl, Tyehimba Jess, A. Van Jordan, Arielle Greenberg, Billy Corgan, Franz Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Louise Glück, and Alicia Ostriker.

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Ginsberg, Allen 1975

Friday, March 14, 1975
with William Burroughs
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Vintage poster of a joint reading by Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of a joint reading by Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place
Where I was lost alone
Folk looked right through me into space
And passed with eyes of stone

– Allen Ginsberg, “New Stanzas for Amazing Grace“

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Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Edson, Russell 1976

Friday, May 14, 1976
with Charles Simic
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his
sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;
or the young woman who has set herself the task of scraping
her shadow off a wall….

– Russell Edson, “Let Us Consider”

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Vintage poster of Russell Edson and Charles Simic giving a joint reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Russell Edson and Charles Simic giving a joint reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Out of the golden West, out of the leaden East, into the iron South, and to the silver North… Oh metals metals everywhere, forks and knives, belt buckles and hooks… When you are beaten you sing. You do not give anyone a chance…

– Russell Edson, “Metals Metals”

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Watch Russell Edson read his work:

Marshall Poet-in-Residence, with Russell Edson from ASU English on Vimeo.

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Creeley, Robert 1979; 1983; 1985

Friday, January 26, 1979
Sunday, September 25, 1983
Friday, October 18, 1985
Vintage poster of Robert Creeley's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Robert Creeley’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

It is a viscous form of self-
propulsion that lets the feet grip
the floor as the head
lifts to the door,

– Robert Creeley, “Going To Bed”

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There is love only
as love is. These
sense recreate
their definition–a hand

– Robert Creeley, “Variations”

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Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

The man sits in a timelessness
with the horse under him in time
to a movement of legs and hooves
upon a timeless sand.

– Robert Creeley, “The Rescue”

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Watch Robert Creeley read his poem, “When I Think:”

When I Think by Robert Creeley

to hear more, go to: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Creeley.php Robert Creeley reads at CUE Art Foundation on January 18, 2005.

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Cheever, John 1975

Friday, May 2, 1975
An Evening with John Cheever
The Cathedral of St. James
Vintage poster of John Cheever's reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of John Cheever’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

The effect of the water on voices, the illusion of brilliance and suspense, was the same here as it had been at the Bunkers’ but the sounds here were louder, harsher, and more shrill, and as soon as he entered the crowded enclosure he was confronted with regimentation.

– John Cheever, “The Swimmer”

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Read this interview with John Cheever from the Paris Review:

The Art of Fiction No. 62

PHOTOGRAPH BY NANCY CRAMPTON The first meeting with John Cheever took place in the spring of 1969, just after his novel Bullet Park was published. Normally, Cheever leaves the country when a new book is released, but this time he had not, and as a result many interviewers on the E…

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Burroughs, William 1975

Friday, March 14, 1975
with Allen Ginsberg
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Vintage poster of a joint reading by Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of a joint reading by Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Its so hard to remember in the world – –   Weren’t you there?        Dead so you
think of ports – – Couldn’t reach flesh – –       Might have to reach flesh from
anybody – – 

– William Burroughs, “Where Flesh Circulates”

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Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Poetry in Motion: a film by Ron Mann with Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, Anne Waldman at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

my ice skates on a wall
lustre of stumps washes his lavender horizon
he’s got a handsome face of a lousy kid
rooming-houses dirty fingers
whistled in the shadow
“Wait for me at the detour.”

– William Burroughs, “Cold Lost Marbles”

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Watch this interview with William Burroughs from Magivanga Magazine:

Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs – part 1/3

Uploaded by MagivangaMagazine23 on 2011-07-14.

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Brooks, Gwendolyn 1977

Friday, May 27, 1977
with Etheridge Knight
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Vintage poster of a joint reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and Etheridge Knight at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of a joint reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and Etheridge Knight at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.

– Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Sunset of the City”

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Read this interview with Gwendolyn Brooks from Modern American Poetry:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brooks/interviews.htm

Of people: These
are all soft animals.
Not one is made of steel.
That
is what he thought.
He felt that they would feel.
If not next day, next Monday.
And he smiled.

– Gwendolyn Brooks, “Henry Rago”

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