Kenneth Koch

Wednesday Series: Kenneth Koch, Jordan Davis, St. Mark's Church, NY, November 10, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (48:26): link
2. Side B (48:29): link

Rudy Burckhardt, On Aesthetics (1999, 9 min., color, with Kenneth Koch)

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Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, April 15, 1998

Songs From Plays

From Easter in the Vatican:
1. This Dancing Man was Once the Pope (0:32): MP3
2. When I was a Young Women (0:36): MP3
3. Your Genius Made Me Shiver (0:55): MP3
From New Faces of Forty Years Past:
4. Driving Along (0:21): MP3
5. They Say Prince Hamlet (1:02): MP3
From The Unicorn
6. Songs Are About Death (0:17): MP3
From New Times, New World
7. Allegheny Menaces (0:38): MP3
From Don Juan of Quixote
8. Let's Pour Coca-Cola on the Priest (0:25): MP3
From Brothers and Friends
9. You Want a Social Life with Friends (1:28): MP3
From Two Worlds
10. What Makes this Statue Noble Seeming (0:39): MP3
From My Olivetti Speaks
11. My Olivetti Speaks (10:14): MP3
12. Some plays from One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (18:50): MP3
13. One Train (5:57) MP3

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1996

• Complete recording (5:17): MP3

Reading from "Impressions of Africa", St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1983

Complete recording (23:32): MP3

10 Year Memorial honoring Frank O'Hara, St. Mark's Church, 1976

• Side A (29:50): MP3
• Side B (49:29): MP3

Features Joe LeSeuer, Patsy Southgate, Jane Freilicher (reading James Schuyler), Anne Waldman as MC, Kenneth Koch (reading "Awake in Spain"), Carter Ratcliffe, Tony Towle, David Shapiro, and Peter Schjedahl

Note: Some unintentional background music and sound from earlier tape recording can occasionally be deciphered in the background. Kenneth Koch’s reading features particularly distracting interruptions.

Reading at St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1972

• Side A (25:35): MP3
• Includes "A Serious Moment and "In Bed"


• Side B (50:58): MP3
• Includes "First Trip to China", "Alive for an Instant", and "Today" from The Art of Love

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

Rudy Burckhardt, The Apple (1967, 2 minutes, color, poem by Kenneth Koch, music by Tony Ackerman and Brad Burg, sung by Kim Brody)

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Reading at the Recording Lab, Library of Congress, May 9, 1960

• Complete recording (1:46:07): external link

Also Of Interest:

• Kenneth Koch reading "The Circus" (6:09): MP3
• Niels Plenge, Lars Movin, and Thomas Thurah, "Something Wonderful May Happen" (2001) on the New York School, documentary: mp4

Kenneth Koch on PennSound Daily

• June 20, 2008: "Kenneth Koch at the Kelly Writers House, 1998"

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