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"Charles Olson at Goddard College, 1962: Reading" Featuring Charles Olson Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont) | Thursday, April 12, 1962; Free admission (Reservation not required) Organized by Aaron Levy, Louis Cabri Olson at Goddard College, 1962 Series

Project Website (with 115 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11091/ Olson reading from Maximus III, Maximus V & The Distances (April 12, 1962) Transcribed by Kyle Schlesinger Read More About this Project (PDF Download) Charles Olson (1910-1970) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late Forties his work received major attention. He was writing teacher and then rector at Black Mountain College, where Robert Creeley later taught. Volumes of Charles Olson's poetry include The Maximus Poems, and The Collected Poems. Kyle Schlesinger is a poet and doctoral candidate in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the editor of Cuneiform Press and collaboratively edits Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose.