From the Vault 310: Poetry of Bukowski and Levertov

This week on From the Vault, we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with the earliest known recordings of poet and cult icon Charles Bukowski and British-born American poet Denise Levertov.
We’ll start with our Charles Bukowski recording, from a late-night KPFK broadcast on August 5, 1962 – where he gave his Los Angeles audience an earful in true Bukowski tradition. Then we’ll hear selections from a recording of Denise Levertov, who frequently framed her poetry to express her personal politics, at a Speech Department poetry reading at the University of California, Berkeley on November 10, 1961.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio listeners.

First broadcast on Friday, April 20th, 2012.