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Basil King
Basil King is a painter/poet, born in England before WWII and living in Brooklyn since 1968. He attended Black Mountain
College as a teenager and completed apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist in
San Francisco and New York. For the past three decades he has taken his art "from the abstract to
the figure, from the figure to the abstract." His books include Mirage: a poem in 22 sections, Warp spasm, Identity,
77 Beasts/ Basil King's Beastiary, Talisman#36/37, and In the Field Where Daffodils Grow, Short Stories.
Reading with Charles Borkhuis, LCP Salon, Virtual Reading, November 13, 2022
Introduced by Kimberly Lyons.
Media.SAS direct URL: MP4
Reading in Minneapolis, April 10, 2015
Mother of Pearl (8:01): MP3
Recording courtesy of Nicole Peyrafitte.
Recording for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, February 10, 2015
Full recording available here.
Reading for the Prose Pros Series, Sidewalk Café, November 6, 2014
The White Tablecloth (16:19): MP3
Basil's Arc: A Celebration of the Paintings and Poetics of Basil King, Anthology Film Archives, September 22, 2012
Mitch Highfill, Joe Elliot, Hettie Jones, Martha King, and Michael Mann read from his Learning to Draw. Organized by Kim Lyons and the Friends of Basil King.
Complete recording (33:33): MP3, Vimeo
Reading at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC, January 25, 2012
Poet & Painter Basil King reads from his latest book Learning to Draw/A History (Skylight Press).
Basil King Reading Poetry Project NYC 01/25/2012 from Tawil Productions on Vimeo.
Reading from LEARNING TO DRAW/A HISTORY: TWIN TOWERS, Prose Pros Series at The Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, December 9, 2010
Complete reading (34:43): MP3
Reading from Warp Spasm, Prose Pros Series at The Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, November 5, 2009
Complete recording (33:37): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2015 Basil King.
Used with the permission of Basil King. Distributed by PennSound.
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