Performance and Entertainment

Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
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Items in this collection

Poems

Poems

Brown University

Frank T. Rios. Broadsheet. Contains nine poems. At head of title: Bowery Press; below title: Venice West/Denver. At end of recto: Bowery broadsheet #2 ... from The Bowery .. Text on recto within border of type ornaments; text printed in brown and red on mustard paper; ornamental rules in red and brown; and ills. in brown. First poem: The death poem (first line: It's getting cold)

Poem: God

Poem: God

Brown University

Larry Eigner. Page [2] blank. French fold. One of 150 copies. Subtitle from title of poem on page [3] Colophon on page [4]: Hearse Press 1/18/59 150 copies. Printed in purple.

Poem: God

Poem: God

Brown University

Larry Eigner. Page [2] blank. French fold. One of 150 copies. Subtitle from title of poem on page [3] Colophon on page [4]: Hearse Press 1/18/59 150 copies. Printed in purple.

Poem: God

Poem: God

Brown University

Larry Eigner. Page [2] blank. French fold. One of 150 copies. Subtitle from title of poem on page [3] Colophon on page [4]: Hearse Press 1/18/59 150 copies. Printed in purple.

Poem: for my true love: killed in my dream by a bear while packing a deer carcass alone out of the High Cascades

Poetry in eleven lines. Mimeographed typscript on white paper. At head of text in upper left: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1967. By September publication was continued by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Poem-paintings: [exhibition] January 9 to February 5, 1967

by Frank O'Hara amd Norman Bluhm ; sponsored by New York University Art Collection. Page [4] blank. Cover title. On page [2] reproduction of poem-painting by O'Hara and Bluhm; words on painting begin, "It's raining and I'm thinking." Text by Bill Berkson entitled: "It's raining/and I'm thinking ..."

Poem to Tom McGrath

Poem to Tom McGrath

Brown University

Printed from typed copy with author's manuscript correction in fourth stanza. According to information from Robert A. Wilson from the Phoenix Book Shop in a letter dated Dec. 12, 1962, the printer of Michelin's book "I kiss angels", published by Interim Books, "... let him type up the poem and then he ran off somewhere between 35 & 50 copies. Micheline brought most of them in to me. When I pointed out a lost word, he filled it in by hand. In other words, the publication date is approximately Nov. 15th." Hay Broadsds Harris copy: One of 35 or 50 copies with author's mss. correction in ink; autographed in pencil.

Poem of tears

Poem of tears

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy white paper in postcard format. Poem in two stanzas of three lines each and one of four. Type-signed at end: By Jerry Madson. Suggested publication date from date of other poems in series.

Poem of tears

Poem of tears

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy white paper in postcard format. Poem in two stanzas of three lines each and one of four. Type-signed at end: By Jerry Madson. Suggested publication date from date of other poems in series.

Poem I'dell

Poem I'dell

Brown University

Printed on heavy yellow paper cut into shape of four-petalled flower. Gelatin silver print of woman's head collaged into center. Photo by Oaranos. Abstract totem-like image printed in blue and red on verso. Poem entitled Epomene on top and side petals.

Poem I'dell

Poem I'dell

Brown University

Printed on heavy yellow paper cut into shape of four-petalled flower. Gelatin silver print of woman's head collaged into center. Photo by Oaranos. Abstract totem-like image printed in blue and red on verso. Poem entitled Epomene on top and side petals.