Spinning Poetry: The Spoken Word

We now delve further into the Caedmon catalog for another major modernist poet reading her work, Marianne Moore, and then feature work of John Ashbery (who admired Moore’s work) reading his sometimes moving, sometimes funny, and often challenging poems that benefit from his upstate New York voice and from his droll, understated delivery.

Rounding out the evening are selections from Caedmon’s own “big hits” disc, its Treasury of Modern Poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, and many other possibilities. We’ll start a little later this time to help people get to the Institute Library’s music listening room from work or other daily responsibilities.