National Poetry Festival, June 14-24, 1973

• 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Ted Enslin

• 10:00 am. Poetry workshop: various poets; Translation workshop (George Economou)
• 11:30 am. TV (Objectivists, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Enslin)
• 2:00 pm. Blues improvisation: Allen Ginsberg
• 4:30 pm. Village Books Party: Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Enslin, Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, David Meltzer, Victor Hernández Cruz
• 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Robert Duncan

• 10:00 am. "Ideas of the Meaning of Form" [I] (Robert Duncan).

• 2:00 pm. "Objectivists and After" (George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, and others)

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  • 4:00 pm. Film: "William Carlos Williams"
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Allen Ginsberg, David Meltzer, George Drury

  Sunday, June 17

  • 10:00 am. "Woman and Creativity" (Diane di Prima); Poetry workshops
  • 2:00 pm. Blues improvisation: Allen Ginsberg
  • 4:30 pm. Poetry and the Avant-Garde Theatre
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Ed Dorn, David Meltzer

  Monday, June 18

  • 10:00 am. "Ideas of the Meaning of Form" [II] (Robert Duncan)
  • 2:00 pm. "Psychology of the Poet" (Carl Rakosi)
  • 3:30 pm. Open reading
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Victor Hernández Cruz, Diane di Prima

  Tuesday, June 19

  • 10:00 am. Poetry workshops:
    

    "Woman and Creativity" (Diane di Prima)
    Translation workshop (George Economou)

  • 2:00 pm. "Function of the Long Poem" (Ted Enslin)
  • 4:00 pm. Film: "Louis Zukofsky"
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Carl Rakosi, Robert Vas Dias

  Wednesday, June 20

  • 6:30 am. Ed Dorn—Gunslinger
  • 10:00 am. "Ideas of the Meaning of Form" [III] (Robert Duncan)
  • 1:15 pm. Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn
  • 2:00 pm. Victor Hernández Cruz, Diane di Prima
  • 3:00 pm. Robert Duncan; Open reading
  • 8:30 pm. Rochelle Owens and dance/poetry performance

  Thursday, June 21

  • 10:00 am. Poetry Workshops:
    

    Translation workshop (George Economou)
    "Woman and the Literary Culture" (Rochelle Owens, Diane di Prima)

  • 2:00 pm. "Function of the Long Poem" (Ted Enslin)
  • 4:30 pm. "Poetry and the Avant-Garde Theatre" (Rochelle Owens)
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Charles Reznikoff

  Friday, June 22

  • 10:00 am. "Poetry of Pre-Literate Peoples, Mostly American Indian" (Kenneth Rexroth)
  • 1:30 pm. TV (Kenneth Rexroth)
  • 2:00 pm. Alternative Healing
  • 2:30 pm. TV (Kenneth Rexroth, Diane di Prima, George Economou, David Meltzer, Ted Enslin)
  • 4:30 pm. Village Books Party: George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, Rochelle Owens, George Economou, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Vas Dias)
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: George Economou, George Oppen

  Saturday June 23

  • 8:30 am. "Paranoia and History" (Diane di Prima)
  • 9:30 am. Poetry workshops
  • 11:15 am. George Quasha, Stein
  • 2:00 pm. "Magazine and Small Press Publishing" (Diane di Prima, George Economou, David Meltzer, George Oppen, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Vas Dias)
  • 4:30 pm. Diane di Prima—Special
  • 8:30 pm. Poetry reading: Kenneth Rexroth

  Sunday, June 24

  • 10:00 am. "Poetry of Non-European Cultures, Mostly Chinese and Japanese" (Kenneth Rexroth)
  • 12:00 noon. Festival ends

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