Carl Rakosi

99th Birthday Celebration at the Kelly Writers House, October 30, 2002

1. Love America, Uncle Sam Needs You (1:58): MP3
2. Go Preach Christ (1:12): MP3
3. The Country Singer (0:53): MP3
4. Captain Paterson (2:59): MP3
5. from Three Cheers for the Star Spangled Banner: A Silent Movie (1:19): MP3
6. How to be with a Rock (2:34): MP3
7. Oh Sestina (2:27): MP3
8. from The Old Poet's Tale (4:09): MP3
9. To a Collie Pup (1:31): MP3
10. In What Sense I Am (2:17): MP3 [ text ]

Excerpted from that discussion: Rakosi on writing communist poetry in the 1930s: MP3

for more information on this reading, please click here to visit the event's page on the Kelly Writers House website.

Summer Writing Program, Naropa, June 17, 1998

Part 1: Panel on the Objectivist poets (1:42:15): MP3
Part 2: Complete discussion (1:32:50): MP3 (note: recording is of extremely poor quality)

Special thanks to Rachel Blau DuPlessis for making these recordings available.

Reading and Interview with Charles Armakanian on "Ode to Gravity," KPFA-FM, May 13, 1971

Complete Recording (56:44): MP3

Footage shot by Nathaniel Dorsky at the Arboretum of Golden Gate Park

Footage shot by Nathaniel Dorsky at the Arboretum of Golden Gate Park, a few blocks from where the poet lived in the Sunset District of San Francisco. It is shot on 16mm Kodachrome. With Rakosi is his companion, Marilyn Kane.

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

Carl Rakosi on PennSound Daily:

• December 20, 2007: "Carl Rakosi's 99th Birthday Celebration and Reading"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author (c) 2002 Carl Rakosi. Used with permission of the estate of Carl Rakosi. Distributed by PennSound.