Title
The Eternal Poetry Festival (61 minutes)
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Description
Audio recording of collaborative spoken poetry by Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove. Date unknown (ca. 1980s-1990s).
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Transcription
Partial transcription:
Side A, beginning of audio program:
BP: This is Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove in South Harpswell, Maine, producing in a spontaneous unrehearsed manner a bouquet of words and sounds for our friends in Germany via Stuttgart.
MM: And this is Mark Melnicove and Bern Porter here in South Harpswell, Maine, producing through a variety of sounds and words some greetings for our friends in Stuttgart, Germany.
BP: Somewhere gone ...
Side A: end (30:35-59):
BP [while MM counts]: Uncounted night. Most improbable Master of the Universe, how serenely he sits, his unzipped, his un-sipped tea his curls like [audio cut off]
Side B, beginning:
[rhythmic tapping]
BP: These newest days a foliage covers my dreams impossible to obscure...I name my children...
MM: Abel Cain...
Side B, end:
goodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbye...
[note BP speaking in low voice at approx. 30:41 is actual end]
Identifier
Porter-EternalPoetryC60
Date
9999
Location
Harpswell, Maine, USA
Format
audio cassette
Keywords
spoken word, poetry collaboration, contemporary poetry, experimental poetry
Disciplines
American Studies | Art Practice | Creative Writing | Poetry
Rights
Please contact Colby College Libraries, Special Collections for rights and reproduction requests that do not qualify as Fair Use under USA Copyright Law. See, for example, Columbia University, Copyright Advisory Office: Fair Use Checklist.
Recommended Citation
Porter, Bern and Melnicove, Mark, "The Eternal Poetry Festival (61 minutes)" (9999). Miscellany. 2.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/porter_misc/2
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