Gay poetry / read by Alma Routsong and Ronald Gold.
Alma Routsong, author of "Patience and Sarah" under the pen name Isabel Miller, and host Ronald Gold read poems by gay and lesbian poets. Poems read: Gertrude Stein - Love song of Alice B.; Walt Whitman - Calamus 24 and 25; Fran Winant - Penny; Alta - The art of enforced deprivation; Ian Young - Honi soit qui mal y pense; May Swenson - Two-part parable; Ron Schreiber - Tracking me down; Judy Grahn - A mock interrogation; George Whitmore - A political poem; Judy Grahn - Carol, in the park, chewing on straws; Ron Schreiber - On to Ithaca; May Swenson - Poet to tiger; George Whitmore - Riis Park; Ian Young - A trick letter for a cowboy; Amy Lowell - Madonna of the evening flowers; May Swenson - A trellis for R.; Walt Whitman - Of the terrible doubt of appearances; Walt Whitman - When I heard at the close of day; Walt Whitman - I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing; Walt Whitman - Full of life, now. Routsong and Gold conclude by reading Judy Grahn's The psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke.