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June 27-Robert Duncan, in Buffalo for part of the summer, reads in the Conference
Theater.
July 17-Electronic Poetry Presentation in Norton Conference Theater.
July 3O-Nathaniel Tarn reads.
November 20-Robert Bly reads in Haas Lounge.
December 18-Jerome Rothenberg reads in the Conference Theater at 2 p.m., and John'
Berryman reads in the Millard Fillmore Room at 8 p.m. .
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Mac Hammond's book, Cold Turkey, with its accompanying record of multi-track poetry, is
one product of the interest-manifested by the number of Electronic Poetry
Conferences-in exploring the possibilities new technologies held for poetry. "I discovered
that 1 could get them to record my voice on three different tracks and play them all
at once. On the one track 1 read, for example, a poem on Thanksgiving from a suite of
poems called The Holidays, on another track I repeat the phrase 'Thank you,' and on the
third I speak random cliches appropriate for the holiday, like 'Don't talk with your mouth
full,' and 'More cranberries, anyone?' So here's the poem made up of language that is both
orderly and disorderly at the same time, elements of the banal and elements that are
aleatoric. At first I left the three tracks running parallel however they occurred, but later
found it more interesting to orchestrate them."-MH. "The result is an expansion of the
poetry's printed form into a new, auditory medium."-Dust jacket of Cold Turkey
Spring semester-Michael Hamburger, poet, translator, critic, at DB as Visiting Professor
in the Department of German and Slavic. Offers courses on Holderlin and Problems of
Modem German Poetry.
February 20-Louise Gluck reads in Norton.
March 19-Brother Antoninus (William Everson) reads in Acheson HalL "Brother
Antoninus gave a very histrionic reading, wearing his cowl, beginning with very heavy
breathing to let the audience know the depths of his feeling. We were on pins and needles.
At one point, someone left, slamming the door, and he stopped and said, 'Buffalo, Buffalo,
how do you treat your poets?'"-CD
April 2I-Diane Wakoski reads in Conference Theater.
July 2-James Wright reads in Conference Theater.
July 16-Anselm Hollo reads in Conference Theater.
July 30-Nathaniel Tarn reads in Conference Theater.
Linda Reinfeld and Lewis MacAdams receive M.A.s in English at DB.
October I7-Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads in Norton. "... [T]he trim, nearly white-bearded
Mr. Ferlinghetti drew his legendary self up on the stage, strummed an autoharp in opening
and sung [sic] a few phrases of an Indian chant before announcing in a loud voice: 'I
hereby declare the end of the war. Against youth.'" (Buffalo Evening News 10/18/69, A7)
November 4--Richard Brautigan reads in Acheson.