Thanks to the good graces of Ron Padgett, we recently posted a total of eleven recordings from New York School legend Kenward Elmslie. While some of these readings are missing information in regards to their date and/or location, those we can identify date from between 1974 and 1989.
There are a total of three readings with Kenneth Deifik — one at a 1980 St. Mark's Poetry Project Town Hall, one at Books and Company that same year, and an undated recording from Philadelphia — along with Poetry Project readings with Steven Taylor and Tony Greco (in 1984 and 1974, respectively) and an undated reading with Lee Crabtree. The remainder are solo readings in Burlington, VT (1989); Venice, CA's beloved Beyond Baroque bookstore (1982); and undated readings at the Poetry Room and St. Mark's, along with an hour-long undated recording of Rare Meat: A Cabaret Review.
These new additions join several other recordings on our Kenward Elmslie author page, including a 2000 reading as part of The Line Reading Series, "Snippets: A Gathering of Songs, Visual Collaborations, and Poems," hosted at our own Kelly Writers House in 2003, a 2007 Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, and a 2009 appearance in issue #3 of the journal textsound. You can browse our complete Elmslie archive by clicking here.
