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Advertisement for "Poetry - A Living Art" presented by Donald Finkel as NEA Poet-in-Residence, sponsored by the Y Poetry Center.

Advertisement for "Poetry - A Living Art" presented by Donald Finkel as NEA Poet-in-Residence, sponsored by the Y Poetry Center.

Bollingen Prize in Poetry Announced, Yale University News Release. The news releases states that the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library has been awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov. The prize is awarded every 2 years for…

Gathering of Poets at White House, New York Times, January 4, 1980. Photo of Rosalynn Carter, Amy Carter, Stanley Kunitz, John Ciardi, Jonathan Williams, and May Swenson at the gathering.

Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett (1906- ) has been an active participant in the staging of his plays in numerous productions. Exhibited here are Beckett's own copoes of Warten auf Godot [Waiting for Godot] (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960) and Fin de…

Short clip from "The Image Maker," a play by James Merrill. Merrill's theatrical production was performed by both live actors and marionette puppets. In this pivotal monologue, one of the play's puppets, Miguel, challenges his creator, The Image…

A 1979 interview regarding the creative process of Dickey's poetry text, "The Zodiac," and the ways his epic poem acts both as "an homage" and its own original entity

A 1979 interview regarding the creative process of Dickey's poetry text, "The Zodiac," and the ways his epic poem acts both as "an homage" and its own original entity

Robert Creeley tells the story of how he first met Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco. He follows his story with readings from the Ginsberg poems that how most influenced him: "Transcription of Organ Music" and "Song".

Robert Creeley reads and discusses William Carlos Williams' poem, "For Eleanor and Bill Monahan".