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John Clarke (1933 – 1991) and Charles Keil in Performance Buffalo, 1984-5
John (Jack) Clarke and Charles (Charlie) Keil were recorded at least three times performing as “Skald/Song” in the mid 1980s, and we have located two of the tapes. Paul Kluger recorded the performance at Nietzsche’s in May 1984. It’s not known who recorded the [...]

Donald Guravich and Joanne Kyger Read
This reading was part of the 2009 Duende Reading Series. Recorded in Placitas, NM September 13, 2009. Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Copyright 2009 Donald Guravich, Joanne Kyger and Vox Audio, P.O. Box 594 Magdalena, NM 87825
Tracklist: 1. Jim Burbank Intro Donald Guravich 2. Opening Comments 3. Personal Financial Loss 4. [...]

Keith Wilson (1927-2009) Reads from Lion’s Gate, Selected Poems 1963-1986 Volume One
Keith recorded these poems in Santa Fe in 1990 for a cassette to accompany Lion’s Gate, Selected Poems 1963-1986. When Alien Kruse converted that cassette to compact disk from the cassette, he noticed two [...]

Mary McGinnis, Anne MacNaughton and Peter Rabbit Read at the Anasazi Fields Winery
Mary McGinnis is the author of Listening For Cactus (Sherman Asher 1996) and October Again. She’s reading her poems from a text in Braille. Anne MacNaughton has published her work in several anthologies and is a founding member Lucid Performance. Peter Rabbit (Douthit) [...]

Timothy Wright
Reads. The Dust Of Europe. January 1980. Recorded in East Machias, ME
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David Empfield
Reads. From The Horse Opera And Other Work. January 2002. Recorded in Magdalena, NM
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Bruce Holsapple
Reads. From Skull of Caves. December 2004
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Gene Frumkin
Reads. March 2005. Recorded in Magdalena, NM
Gene Frumkin (1928-2007) was an American poet and teacher. Born and raised in New York City and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A. in English, 1950), Eugene Frumkin worked as a bank teller before beginning his writing career as a journalist. He first took [...]

Mary Rising Higgins
Reads. March 2005. Recorded in Magdalena, NM
Mary Rising Higgins is the author of : red table(S (La Alameda Press, 1999), oclock (Potes and Poets, 2000), )locus TIDES(( (Potes and Poets, 2002), and )cliff TIDES(( (Singing Horse Press, 2005), Greatest Hits, 1990-2001 (Pudding House 2002), )joule TIDES(( (Singing Horse 2007) and Borderlining: [...]

Bruce Holsapple
Reads. From Vanishing Act, June 2005. Recorded in Magdalena, NM
Bruce Holsapple is currently working in central New Mexico as a speech-language pathologist. He taught briefly and has a scholarly essay on Phil Whalen’s poetry forthcoming in Paideuma. His poems have appeared in The Poker, House Organ, First Intensity and Blue Mesa. Bruce Holsapple is [...]