Mark Linenthal: November 1, 1973

The Poetry Center presents Mark Linenthal, on the faculty at San Francisco State where he taught poetry and creative writing, and a former director of The Poetry Center (1966–72), reading from his poetry. (Linethal's poems would be collected in two books published some years later: Growing Light (Black Thumb Press, 1979) and The Man I Am Watching (e.g. books, 1987.) Kathleen Fraser, who had succeeded Linenthal as Poetry Center director earlier that year, introduces Linenthal and Frederick Will. 

Note: the video of Frederick Will following Linenthal on this program has not been digiitzed and will be added at a later date. 

Publisher
American Poetry Archives
Location
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
Date
1973-11-01
Event Run Time
00:39:17
Contributors
Kathleen Fraser
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Mark Linenthal (00:38:35)

Mark Linenthal reads his poems (mostly not speaking the titles): "It Would Be Wonderful," "The Cage," "The Stories of My Life," "Mother," "The Beach," "Coming To" (a poem, he notes, citing "the current war," that is on Israel, but "not political, despite its political implications"), "The Fish," "A Poem About Politics," "Under the Ducks," "Bay Meadow," "Black/Birds," "The Tide," "In This," "Poem," "The Escape," "Speaking," "Yours For a Happy Smile," "It Was No Joke Alright," "The Fat Man," and "Song for Frances." 

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