Today we're proud to announce a new reading by Leonard Schwartz at New York City's Bowery Gallery. Recorded on March 16th of this year this event was held in conjunction with the exhibition Simon Carr: Play Ground and celebrated Horse on Paper (Chax, 2024), the third multi-genre collaboration between the two, joining Not a Snake (2023) and Salamander: A Bestiary (2017). Running just over seventy minutes the recording includes a gallery talk by Carr and Schwartz reading his poems from the volume.
You'll find this video on PennSound's Leonard Schwartz author page alongside a number of PoemTalk appearances and more than a dozen recordings of readings and performances going way back to the early 90s. Of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't also mention Schwartz's much-missed radio program Cross Cultural Poetics (2003–2018), which provided listeners with nearly 400 episodes showcasing the best of the worldwide arts scene. PennSound is proud to host the complete archive of the series.
