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Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell

Part of New Television Workshop.

08/28/1986

Original Footage , reel 1


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Series
Poetry Breaks
Program
Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell
Series Description

2-5 minute filler programs with New England area writers reading their poetry. Poets include Martin Espada, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds. Series release date: 1988

Program Description

Galway Kinnell introduces and reads his poems at his farmhouse in Vermont. The following poems were mastered for broadcast and general distribution, and appear on the master tapes with and without Poetry Breaks logo and copyright: “Wait” “TV Commercials” “Daybreak” “Prayer” “How Many Nights” “Saint Francis and the Sow” “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” “Kissing the Toad”

Multiple takes of those poems appear on the source tapes of original footage. The following poems are also included on the source tapes: excerpts from “Middle of the Way” “Last Songs” “Crying” “Eating Blackberries” “The Grey Heron” “In Fields of Summer”

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Poetry reading
Oral interpretation of poetry
Poetry
Genres
Performance in a Studio
Topics
Literature
Creators
Luchetti, Leita Hagemann (Producer)
Contributors
Kinnell, Galway, 1927- ()
Citation
Chicago: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell,” 08/28/1986, GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6C8FC1CC4260400199FF82CA3DA900F2.
MLA: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell.” 08/28/1986. GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6C8FC1CC4260400199FF82CA3DA900F2>.
APA: Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Galway Kinnell. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_6C8FC1CC4260400199FF82CA3DA900F2
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