ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: ON WILLIAM AND BEVERLY CORBETT || Woodberry Poetry Room

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Forty-Four Years of Boston Literary Life Introduced by Daniel Bouchard and moderated by Fanny Howe, this conversation explores the poetic and artistic friendships of Bill and Beverly Corbett---as their lives intersected with Paul Auster, Basil Bunting, Robert Creeley, Elsa Dorfman, Philip Guston, Seamus and Marie Heaney, Fanny and Susan Howe, James Laughlin, Michael Palmer, James Schuyler, John Wieners and countless others, as well as such Cambridge/Boston gathering-places as the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, the Blacksmith House Reading Series, the New Poets Theatre and the Corbett's own home at 9 Columbus Square in Boston. Date: Recorded at the Barker Center, Harvard University, on May 17, 2012.