Horace Gregory, "Chorus for Survival"
Horace Gregory
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Al Filreis convened Cristos Kalli, Jon Hoel, and Henry Steinberg to talk about two poems about the once hugely famous and now mostly forgotten communist and communist-affiliated poet who thrived for decades but most notably in the 1930s. In the middle of the Depression decade — in the momentous year of 1935 — he published the book Chorus for Survival with Covici-Friede. Our group discussed two poems in the Chorus for Survival series — numbers 5 and 11. In 1944, Gregory traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to record some poems for the Harvard Vocarium, performing six poems include the two we discuss. Jon and Al had met up nearly a year before, discovered a common interest in Gregory, and have co-curated this episode.
January 27, 2025
Segue Distributing catalogs 1980-1993
I worked with James Sherry in establishing Segue Distributing in 1980.
I edited the initial set of catalogs (til 1986).
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(courtesry the Digital Library at the Electronic Poetry Center)