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Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: Reading

Charles Olson

Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont) | Thursday, April 12, 1962;
Free , No reservation required



Olson reading from Maximus III, Maximus V & The Distances (April 12, 1962)
Transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger

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Charles Olson (1910-1970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late Forties his work received major attention. He was writing teacher and then rector at Black Mountain College, where Robert Creeley later taught. Volumes of Charles Olson's poetry include The Maximus Poems, and The Collected Poems.

Kyle Schlesinger is a poet and doctoral candidate in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the editor of Cuneiform Press and collaboratively edits Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose.