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Harvard's Helen Vendler spoke about Wallace Stevens' works during the listening premiere of found Woodberry Poetry Room recordings of the poet. The recordings were scheduled by letter (photo 2) for October 8, 1954, but were accidentally left out of Harvard's catalogs.

Is that Wallace Stevens?

Vendler joins Woodberry celebration of found recording

Arts|

DateOctober 23, 2014February 28, 2019

Novelist Ralph Ellison was a panelist at a Harvard conference on the novel in 1953, just months after “Invisible Man” gave him lifetime literary visibility. Newly discovered audio from the event provides a rare early glimpse of an extemporaneously incisive Ellison, who went on to make a living as a teacher and literary journalist.

Lost voices of 1953

The thoughts and theories of writer Ralph Ellison come to life with rediscovery of Harvard conference recordings

Arts|

DateAugust 26, 2014July 9, 2019