The Lewis Turco Collection

Turco Tapes Collection at Cleveland State University

The following is a list of audio recordings donated to the Cleveland State University Library by Lewis Turco. The audiotapes include recordings of many prominent poets and samples of events held at the Poetry Center. The descriptions are taken from information provided on each audiotape.

Tape 001
Date: 1954, 1960
Description: John Ciardi, "State of Poetry Now," April 11, 1960, and Thomas Hornsby Ferril, 1954.
Tape 002
Date: 1959
Description: John Tagliabue, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Exact date unknown.
Tape 003
Date: April 17, 1961
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, James L. Weil.
Tape 004
Date: June 26, 1961
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Lewis Turco.
Tape 005
Date: August 2, 1961
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, W. D. Snodgrass, address at State University College, Oneonta, New York.
Tape 006
Date: April 18, 1961
Description: John Logan reading his poems at Cornell University.
Tape 007
Date: August 24, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Richard Frost.
Tape 008
Date: September 18, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Milton Kessler.
Tape 009
Date: October 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Vern Rutsala, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
Tape 010
Date: October 5, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Robert Huff reading his poetry from "Colonel Johnson's Ride" and other published and unpublished works.
Tape 011
Date: October 20, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Louis A. Williams at Fenn College reading a poem with choral background and accompaniment.
Tape 012
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #1.
Track A: L. Quincy Mumford, Henry Rago, Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, Morton Dauwen Zabel, discussion.
Track B: Discussion (cont.), Leonie Adams, William Meredith, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Muriel Rukeyser.
Tape 013
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #2.
Track A: Readings by Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, Mark Van Doren, Louis Untermeyer. Introduction by L. Quincy Mumford, Library of Congress. Greetings by August Heckscher. Randall Jarrell, lecture.
Track B: Randall Jarrell (cont.). Richard Wilbur, introduction. Babette Deutsch, talk.
Tape 014
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #3.
Track A: Talks by Howard Nemerov and Karl Shapiro. Discussion.
Track B: Discussion (cont.). Readings by John Berryman, louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, J.V. Cunningham.
Tape 015
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #4.
Track A: Readings by Richard Eberhart, Paul Engle, Henry Rago, W. D. Snodgrass, Allen Tate.
Track B: Lecture by Robert Frost, introduction by Louis Untermeyer.
Tape 016
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #5.
Track A: Robert Frost lecture (continued), introduction by John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, Leonie Adams.
Track B: J. V. Cunningham, discussion. Readings by R. P. Blackmur, Katherine B. Chapin, Babette Deutsch, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarrell.
Tape 017
Date: October 22, 1962
Description: National Poetry Festival #6.
Track A: Readings by Randall Jarrell, Stanley Kunitz, Ogden Nash, Kenneth Rexroth, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Williams. Lecture by Sir Herbert Read.
Track B: Lecture by Sir Herbert Read (continued).
Tape 018
Date: October 26, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, David Ignatow.
Tape 019
Date: November 1, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, James Crenner.
Track A: "Song to a Crippled Child," "On the Loss of My Friends," "From Atlantis."
Track B: "On a Watercolor by Harold Howe," "In The Year of Drought," "Poem to William, My Brother.".
Tape 020
Date: November 13, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Paul Engle. Morning program at Fenn College.
Tape 021
Date: November 13, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Paul Engle. Evening program at Fenn College.
Tape 022
Date: November 13, 1962
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Paul Engle. Evening program at Fenn College.
Tape 023
Date: 1963
Description: Maryland Writers' Festival, W.D. Snodgrass. Exact date unknown.
Tape 024
Date: 1963
Description: Maryland Writers' Festival.
Track A: William Faulkner, Nobel Prize acceptance speech; excerpt from "As I Lay Dying"; Wallace Stevens, "Idea of Order at Key West"; Conrad Aiken, "Tetelestai"; Elisabeth Bishop, "Manuelzinho."
Track B: Lewis Turco. Exact date unknown.
Tape 025
Date: 1963
Description: Maryland Writers' Festival.
Track A: Robert Wallace.
Track B: Joseph Langland. Exact date unknown.
Tape 026
Date:1963
Description: Maryland Writers' Festival.
Track A: Edward Skellings.
Track B: Arnold Kenseth. Exact date unknown.
Tape 027
Date: 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, X.J. Kennedy, Ohio Versewriters Conference.
Exact date unknown.
Tape 028
Date: January 28, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Dr. Ernest J. Simmons lecture on "Literary
Development in the Soviet Union." Especially concerns Boris Pasternak.
Tape 029
Date: March 15, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Donald Justice.
Tape 030
Date: April 26, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference.
Track A: Russell Atkins and Hammond (first name unknown)
Track B: Turner and Williams (first names unknown).
Tape 031
Date: April 27, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference. "The Poet's Marks.: James Crenner, Irving Feldman, Miller Williams, Lewis Turco.
Tape 032
Date: May 24, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Richard Wilbur.
Tape 033
Date: November 15, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Nicholas Lindsay reading the poetry of Vachel Lindsay.
Tape 034
Date: 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors "Introduction '64." Jau Billera, Fay Fox, Dave French, Russell Salamon, Julie Suk. Exact date unknown.
Tape 035
Date: February 21, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Howard Nemerov.
Tape 036
Date: March 7, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Norton Marcus. M Tape
Tape 037
Date: April 12, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors: Track A: Karl Shapiro, lecture.
Track B: Edith Sitwell, "Facade"; Mark Van Doren.
Tape 038
Date: April 12, 1964
Description: Fenn Poetry Center, Karl Shapiro, reading.
Tape 039
Date: April 16, 1964
Description: Muriel Rukeyser, Department of English, State University College, Oswego, NY. Part 1.
Tape 040
Date: April 16, 1964
Description: Muriel Rukeyser, Department of English, State University College, Oswego, NY. Part 2.
Tape 041
Date: April 17, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference. Local poets Vonna Adrian, P.K. Saba, & William Sylvester.
Tape 042
Date: April 18, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference. Hollis Summers.
Tape 043
Date: April 18, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference. James L. Weil,"Devices of Poetry." Roundtable, all speakers and audience.
Tape 044
Date: April 18, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ohio Versewriters Conference.
Discussion: "That the Creation of a Poem is Essentially an Unconscious Process." Richard Frost & Donald Petersen.
Tape 045
Date: May 22, 1964
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Richard Eberhardt.
Tape 046
Date: November 6, 1964
Description: John Woods.
Tape 047
Date: October 14, 1964
Date: April 5, 1967
Description: Track A: David Wagoner, April 5, 1967.
Track B: Richard Hugo, October 14, 1964.
Tape 048
Date: October 14, 1964
Description: Richard Hugo, Dept. of English, State University College, Oswego, NY.
Tape 049
Date: 1965
Description: Conference of Midwestern Poets: Donald Hall, Lewis Turco, exact date unknown.
Tape 050
Date: March 5, 1965
Description: William Dickey, e.e. cummings.
Tape 051
Date: May 14, 1965
Description: Fenn Poetry Center.
Track A: W.D. Snodgrass, lecture: "An Overview, 1870-1970."
Track B: W.D. Snodgrass, poetry reading.
Tape 052
Date: February 19, 1966
Description: Fine Arts Festival, Espresso Shop, State University College, Oswego, NY. Readings: Al Cahen and students; Russell Atkins and David C. French.
Tape 053
Date: February 16, 1966 Description: Espresso Shop.
Track A: Nicholas Lindsay.
Track B: Students of State University College, Oswego, NY, and three faculty poets: Lewis Turco, Hugo Theimer, and Robert Shure.
Tape 054
Date: February 19, 1966
Description: Fine Arts Festival, Espresso Shop, State University College, Oswego, NY. Readings : Al Cahen and students; Russel Atkins and David C. French.
Tape 055
Date: April 30, 1966
Description: Poetry: Charles Tomlinson, April 30, 1966.
Tape 056
Date: August 28 & 30, 1967
Description: OWAW.
Track A: Eric Robinson on John Glare, August 28, 1967.
Track B: Mark McCloskey reading his poems, August 30, 1967.
Tape 057
Date: 1969; December 15, 1970
Description:
Track A: Reading, Morton Marcus, Oswego, NY, December 15, 1970.
Track B: Lewis Turco. Interview: "The living arts." State University College, Potsdam, NY, 1969, exact date unknown.
Tape 058
Date: 1969
Description: Tape from McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars: Erskine Cadwell, "Naturalism and the American Novel," 1969,exact date unknown.
Tape 059
Undated
Description:
Track A: Carl Sandburg, Archibald Macleish, William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden, Edith Sitwell, Robert Graves, Louis MacNeice.
Track B: W.H. Auden, Roy Friedman, Louis MacNeice, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, William Empson, Stephen Spender, William Carlos Williams.
Tape 060
Undated
Description: Yale Poets #5.
Track A: Allen Tate.
Track B: Robert Penn Warren.
Tape 061
Undated
Description:
Track A: T.S. Eliot, reading his own poetry.
Track B: Robert Frost, Steven Vincent Benet, Edmund Skellings.
Tape 062
Undated
Description: Yale Poets #2.
Track A: Robert Lowell.
Track B: Stanley Kunitz.
Tape 063
Undated
Description: Yale Poets #8.
Track A: John Hollander.
Track B: C. Day Lewis.
Tape 064
Undated
Description: Poet William Heyen.
Tape 065
Undated Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Donald Finkel.
Track A: "Hunting Song," "Old Lady With Rosary on the Bus to Pueblo," "Dionysus," "Archaic Figurine from Nayarit," "Hypochondriac," "Marriage."
Track B: "The Serpent Charmer (After Jean Leon Jerome)", "My Painting will Never Offend," "Note in Lieu of a Suicide, Apology" (from Simeon), "Midas."
Tape 066
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Constance Carrier.
Tape 067
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Hollis Summers.
Tape 068
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, George Abbe.
Tape 069
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Ralph Kinsey.
Tape 070
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Charles Burgess.
Tape 071
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Leonard Casper.
Tape 072
Undated
Description: Carl Sandburg, Archibald Macleish, William Butler Yeats.
Tape 073
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Loring Williams.
Tape 074
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, William Everson (Brother Antoninus).
Tape 075
Undated
Description: The Last Days of Hart Crane. WBAI-FM, New York. Sam Loveman, William Slater Brown, Nathan Ashe, Solomon Grundberg, Peggy Baird, and John Unterecker.
Tape 076
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Judson Jerome.
Tape 077
Undated
Description: Lewis Turco in Studio B.
Tape 078
Undated
Description: Jazz Poetry Concert.
Tape 079
Undated
Description:
Track A: New Voices in American Poetry (selection from Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors)
Track B: William Faulkner: Nobel Prize acceptance speech; excerpt from "As I Lay Dying"; Wallace Stevens: "The Idea of Order at Key West"; Conrad Aiken: "Tetelestai"; Elizabeth Bishop: "Manuelzinho"; Nicholas Lindsay, "The Building of the Bomb Plant, Book 1: The Egghead Blues."
Tape 080
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Robert Huff.
Tape 081
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, John Crowe Ransom.
Tape 082
Undated
Description: Ohio Versewriters' Conference. Richard Frost & Donald Petersen: "The Unconscious in Verse Composition."
Tape 083
Undated
Description:
Track A: Robert Frost.
Track B: William Meredith.
Tape 084
Undated
Description: Poetry of Lewis Turco.
Tape 085
Undated
Description:
Track A: Hayden Carruth.
Track B: Elliott Coleman, Josephine Jacobson, Henry Rago.
Tape 086
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Hazel Collister Hutchinson.
Tape 087
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, W.D. Snodgrass.
Tape 088
Undated
Description: Library of Congress Undated.
Tape 089
Undated
Description: Lewis Turco.
Tape 090
Undated
Description: Yale Poets #4: Vernon Watkins, Louis MacNeice.
Tape 091
Undated
Description: William Golding.
Tape 092
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, William Golding, morning and afternoon lectures.
Tape 093
Undated
Description: Conference of Midwestern Poetry.
Track A: Loring Williams.
Track B: John Woods.
Tape 094
Undated
Description: UTQ 009 Cut #2, Richard Frost.
Tape 095
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, 1:30 session: Nicholas Lindsay reading the poetry of Vachel Lindsay.
Tape 096
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Mona Van Duyn, reading Poems from her book Valentines to the Wide World, and from an [as then] unpublished book, A Time for Bees.
Tape 097
Undated
Description: X.J. Kennedy.
Track A: "First Confession," "On a Child who Lived a Minute," "The Sirens," "Overheard on the Louvre," "Elegy for a Child Who Skipped Rope," "In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus, NJ," "Ars Poetica," Epitaph for a Postal Clerk," "King Tut," "Be Negative." Track B: "Satori," "If You Got a Notion."
Tape 098
Undated
Description: No data.
Tape 099
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Paul Herr.
Tape 100
Undated
Description: Bill Knott: "It Takes Two to Make a Murder."
Tape 101
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors Charles Angoff.
Tape 102
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Alberta Turner.
Tape 103
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Sam Hudson, "A Light to Lighten."
Tape 104
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Miller Williams.
Tape 105
Undated
Description: Robert Frost.
Tape 106
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Donald Justice.
Tape 107
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, E. L. Mayo.
Tape 108
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, John Hollander.
Tape 109
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, A. R. Ammons.
Tape 110
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Mark Strand.
Tape 111
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Discussion: Lewis Turco and Ray Stascewski.
Tape 112
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, John Woods.
Tape 113
Undated
Description: Jau Billera, reading with drum accompaniment from his book Purgatory and Carousels
Tape 114
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors,Chad Walsh, recorded at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
Tape 115
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Morton Marcus.
Tape 116
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Nicholas Lindsay reading his own poetry.
Tape 117
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Sam Bradley.
Tape 118
Undated
Description: Yale poets #3.
Tape 119
Undated
Description: Yale poets #6.
Track A: Yvor Winters, Lee Anderson.
Track B: Winfield Townley Scott, R. P. Blackmuir.
Tape 120
Undated
Description: Yale poets #7.
Track A: Louise Bogan.
Track B: Dudley Fitts.
Tape 121
January 24, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Carr Liggett. History of "The Rhymers Club" of Cleveland and readings of some of the members' poetry, plus some of Liggett's own poems.
Tape 122
April 27, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Judson Jerome, "Rivalry With Madmen," Ohio Versewriters' Conference.
Tape 123
October 25, 1963
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Robert Mezey.
Tape 124
September 5, 1964
Description: Poetry seminar, Dr. Alberta Turner.
Tape 125
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Lewis Turco.
Tape 126
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, discussion by Lewis Turco and Ray Stascewski.
Tape 127
Undated
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Lewis Turco.
Tape 128
June 26, 1961
Description: Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, Lewis Turco.
Tape 129
Undated
Description: Conference of Midwestern Poets: Donald Hall, Lewis Turco.