Reading: John Ashbery
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
23-3-1978 8:00 PM
End Date
23-3-1978 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 23, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” John Ashbery reads a selection of poems. Ashbery reads “The Task,” “Soonest Mended,” “It Was Raining in the Capitol,” “Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,” “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” “Parergon,” an excerpt from “The System,” “Worsening Situation,” “Scheherazade,” “Mixed Feelings,” “Street Musicians,” “Wooden Buildings,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis is Her Name,” “What is Poetry?,” and “Pyrography.”
Introduced by Dr. Sandra Donaldson, Department of English.
Reading: John Ashbery
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 23, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” John Ashbery reads a selection of poems. Ashbery reads “The Task,” “Soonest Mended,” “It Was Raining in the Capitol,” “Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,” “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” “Parergon,” an excerpt from “The System,” “Worsening Situation,” “Scheherazade,” “Mixed Feelings,” “Street Musicians,” “Wooden Buildings,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis is Her Name,” “What is Poetry?,” and “Pyrography.”
Introduced by Dr. Sandra Donaldson, Department of English.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1978/day4/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.