American Poetry Archives
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What's in the Catalog?
There are three main groups of recordings currently available:
AUDIO CASSETTES from the American Poetry Archives, 1954 ff.
VHS VIDEO CASSETTES from the American Poetry Archives, 1973 ff.
VHS VIDEO CASSETTES from The NET Outtake Series, television footage 1965-66
The American Poetry Archives include the very first audio recording made by The Poetry Center, of Theodore Roethke, reading from his poetry on February 21, 1954 in San Francisco, and it includes the most recent digital video recordings. PRINT CATALOG AVAILABLE ON REQUEST includes select recorded works from 1954 to 2000, making available to the public about 2000 recordings of contemporary poets and other writers reading and performing their works before a liveaudience, allowing their art its particular presence. In preparing this catalog, it became evident that it is an historic register of the past 50 years of poetry and related writing as it happened in San Francisco.
Please take note: The Poetry Center's tapes produced for the American Poetry Archives are raw documents, made live on-site with one microphone, one camera, and minimal post-production. These are not television-quality programs. Archives tapes provide documentation of the event as it occurs, and flaws in the original recordings do exist. Typically, these are unique recordings: no second takes, no splicing in or out, extremely few edits. Many of the oldest tapes, however, have been treated and restored to allow us to offer better quality reproductions.
A Heritage & Preservation Grant from The National Endowment for the Arts contributed to the production of our printed catalog. The Poetry Center's public programs, the basis for these recordings, are currently supported by Grants for the Arts-Hotel Tax Fund of the City of San Francisco, the Fund for Poetry, Poets & Writers, Inc., the College of Humanities at San Francisco State University, and by Friends of the Poetry Center. Become a member today! membership info...
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