Richard Kostelanetz
General Resume
BIRTH
May 14, 1940. New York, New York. EDUCATION: Brown University, A.B., 1962, with honors in American Civilization. Columbia University, M.A., 1966, in American History, under Woodrow Wilson, N.Y. State Regents and International Fellowships. King's College, University of London, 1964-65, as a Fulbright Scholar. Further studies in music and theater at Morley College in London and the New School in New York. Phi Beta Kappa.
GRANTS
Pulitzer Fellowship in critical writing, 1965. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967. NEA Visual Arts Services Grants, 1976, 1978, NEA Visual Arts Planning Grant for art in public places, 1979; NEA Visual Arts senior fellowship in book-art, 1985. Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, 1980. Fund for Investigative Journalism, l980. CCLM Editors Fellowship, 1981. The Kitchen Media Bureau, 1983. American Public Radio Program Fund, 1984. NYSCA Media Services (through Future Press), 1982. 84. Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, 1983. Inter Nationes, the German translation agency, 1983, 84, 85, 86. NEA Media Arts Program, 1981, 82, 85, 86, 90, 91. Finishing Funds Award, Experimental TV Center, 1996. ASCAP Standard Award in music composition, annually since 1983 (except 1992-93). Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2001. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2017.
PRIZES
Numbers: Poems & Stories, both written and designed by RK, selected one of the Best Books of l976 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and included in its l977 exhibition. Publication of a work of art in the Lethbridge Herald (Feb. 11, 1978), as sole winner in a competition sponsored by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, and funded by the Canada Council. Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1986.
POSITIONS
Associate, Thematic Studies Program, John Jay College, City University of New York, 1972-73. Senior staff, Indiana University Writers Conference, July 1976. Visiting Professor of American Studies and English, the University of Texas at Austin, spring 1977. Visiting Professor of Theater, Hunter College, CUNY, spring 2002. Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, May-June 2001. Co-founder-president of Assembling Press, 1970-82. Literary director of The Future Press of the Cultural Council Foundation, 1976--. Co-editor-publisher, Precisely: A Critical Magazine, 1977--. Sole proprietor, Archae Editions (not not-for-profit), 1978 to present. Coordinator-interviewer, “American Writing Today,” Voice of America Forum Series, 1979-81. Fellow, New Assoc of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists & Writers Int’l, 2000-02.
GUEST RESIDENCIES
Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, 1979, 1986. DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, 1981-83. GRANTS PANELIST: Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (elected by constituency of past recipients), 1975, 1978, 1980; The Loft, Minneapolis, 1992; Texas Circuit, 1993.
CONTRIBUTING/ADVISORY EDITOR
Contemporary Dramatists, New York Arts Journal, Arts in Society, Performing Arts Journal, Lotta Poetica, The Humanist. AvantGarde: Interdisciplinary and International Review, Liberty, Rampike, Literature in Performance, Incite Information, The Pushcart Prize, for various durations.
VISITING ARTIST
WXXI-FM, Rochester, NY, 1975, 76. Synapse (video), Syracuse Univ., 1975. Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies (in holography), l978. The Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm, 1981, 83, 84, 86, 88. WGBH-FM, Boston, 1983. Public Access Synthesizer Studio, New York, 1983. The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, 1984. The Dennis Gabor Laboratory, Museum of Holography, 1985, 89. Film/Video Arts, 1989. Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York, 1985, 86, 87, 89, 90, 2005. Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred College, 2004 (twice).
BOOKS AUTHORED
The Theatre of Mixed Means (Dial Press, l968; Pitman, l970; Archae Editions, l980). Master Minds (Macmillan, l969; in Spanish translation as USA: ?Revolucion Cultural?,, Rodolfo Alonso, l972). Visual Language (Assembling Press, l970). In the Beginning (Abyss, l971). Recyclings, Volume One (Assembling, l974). The End of Intelligent Writing (Sheed & Ward, 1974), reprinted as Literary Politics in America (Andrews & McMeel, l977). I Articulations/Short Fictions (Kulchur Foundation, l974). Openings & Closings (D'Arc, l975). Portraits from Memory (Ardis, l975). Constructs (WCPR, 1975). Three Places in New Inkland (with two co-authors, Zartscorp, l977). Illuminations (Laughing Bear-Future, l977). One Night Stood (Future Press, l977, in two different formats). Wordsand (Simon Fraser Univ. Gallery-Archae Editions, l978). Constructs Two (Membrane, l978). And So Forth (Future, l979). Exhaustive Parallel Intervals (Future, l979). "The End" Appendix/“The End” Essentials (Scarecrow-Assembling, l979). Twenties in the Sixties (Greenwood-Assembling-Wild & Woolley, l979). Metamorphosis in the Arts (Assembling, l980). More Short Fictions (Assembling, l980). Reincarnations (Future, l981). The Old Poetries and the New (Univ. of Michigan, l981). Autobiographies (Mudborn-Future, l981). Arenas/Fields/Pitches/|Turfs (BkMk-Univ. of Missouri at Kansas City, l982). American Imaginations (Merve, 1983). Epiphanies (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 1983). Recyclings (Future, 1984). Autobiographien New York Berlin (Merve, 1986). Prose Pieces/Aftertexts (Atticus, 1987). The Grants-Fix (Archae, 1987). The Old Fictions and the New (MacFarland, 1987). Conversing with Cage (Limelight, 1988; in German as John Cage im Gesprach, DuMont, 1989; in French as Conversations Avec John Cage, Syrtes, 2000: second revised edition, Routledge, 2002). On Innovative Music(ian)s (Limelight, 1989). Unfinished Business: An Intellectual Nonhistory (Archae Editions, 1990). The New Poetries and Some Olds (Southern Illinois, 1991). Politics in the African-American Novel (Greenwood, 1991). Solos, Duets, Trios & Choruses (Membrane-Future, 1991). On Innovative Art(ist)s (McFarland, 1992). Wordworks: Poems New & Selected (BOA, 1993). A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (A Cappella, 1993; 2nd ed. Schirmer, 2000). On Innovative Performance(s) (McFarland, 1994). Minimal Fictions (Asylum Arts, 1994). An ABC of Contemporary Reading (San Diego State Univ., 1995). Fillmore East: Recollections of Rock Theater (Schirmer, 1995). One Million Words of Booknotes, 1959-93 (Whitston, 1995). Radio Writing (Further State(s) of the Art, 1995). Crimes of Culture (Autonomedia, 1995). John Cage Ex(plain)ed (Schirmer, 1996). Thirty Years of Critical Engagements with John Cage (Archae, 1996). Vocal Shorts: Collected Performance Texts (Dramatika, 1998). 3-Element Stories (Archae, 1998). Political Essays (Autonomedia, 1999). 3 Canadian Geniuses (Colombo & Co, 2000). SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists’ Colony (Routledge, 2003). Autobiographies at 60 (Archae, 2004). Thirty-Five Years of Visible Writing (Koja, 2004). Film & Video: Alternative Views (Autonomedia, 2005). Intellectual Correspondence in the 21st Century (Archae 2005). Ghosts (Unicon, 2005). More Wordworks (Talisman, 2006). Autobiographies at 50 (Archae, 2006). Home & Away: Travel Essays (Archae, 2006). Book-Art, Anthologies, & Alternative Publishing (Archae, 2006). On Sports & Sportsmen (Archae, 2006). The Maturity of American Thought (Archae, 2006). Furtherest Fictions (Archae, 2007). Vertical Single-Sentence Stories (Vugg, 2007). Toward Secession; 156 More Political Essays (Autonomdia, 2008). Recircuits (NY Quarterly, 2009). Micro Stories (Archae, 2010). Skeptical Essays (Autonomedia, 2010). InSerts & (w/ John M. Bennett) Unfinished Fictions (Luna Bisonte, 2010). Virtual Chapbooks (Archae, 2010). Fict-ions/This Sentence (Blue & Yellow Dog, 2010).
BOOKLETS WRITTEN
Music of Today (Time-Life Records, l967). Accounting (Poetry Newsletter, l973). Ad Infinitum (International Artists' Cooperation, l973). Recyclings, Vol. 1 (Assembling, 1974). Modulations (Assembling, l975). Come Here (Cookie-Assembling, l975). Extrapolate (Cookie-Assembling, l975). Numbers: Poems & Stories (Assembling, l976). Rain Rains Rain (Assembling, l976). Numbers Two (Luna Bisonte, l977). Prunings/Accruings (Ecart, l977). Foreshortenings & Other Stories (Tuumba, l978). Grants & the Future of Literature (Precisely-Archae Editions, l978). Turfs/Arenas/Fields/Pitches (High/Coo, l980). Epiphanies, in The Oberc 1986 Calendar (Mockersatz, 1986). March (Generator, 1990). Fields/Pitches/Turfs/Arenas (Runaway Spoon, 1990). Twenty-Two Years of References (Ghost Dance, 1991). Uninflected, Nonsyntactic Prose (goodbooqpress, 1991). Published Encomia, 1967-91 (Archae Editions, 1991). Behold Visual Poetry (eXpEriMenTal Press, 1991). Repartitions-IV (Runaway Spoon, 1992). Partitions (Bright Moments, 1992). RePartitions (Runaway Spoon, 1994). Selected Shorter Stories (Found Street, 1994). Tranimations (Black & White, 1998), Which Witch (Visual Editions-Offerta Speciale, 1999), Two-Element Stories (Archae 2003). Poetry I Shall Not Make (Runaway Spoon, 2003). Fulcra (Runaway Spoon, 2005). Kaddish and Other Audio Writings (Archea Editions, 2005). Seven Jewish Short Fictions (Marymark, 2006). Bilingual Poems (Cervena Barva, 2006). Furtherest Fictions(Café, 2007). Fulcrapoems (Redfox, 2007). Po/Ems (presa, 2007). Scram/Bleds (Luna Bisonte, 2008). Simultaneous Translations (Cornerstone, 2008). More Fulcra Poems (Presa, 2009). Multiple Ghosts: Subtexts (Offerta Speciale, 2009). Thrice (Bartleby, 2010). Purling Sonnets (Presa, 2010). Erotic Minimal Fictions (Redfox, 2010).
ANTHOLOGIES EDITED & INTRODUCED
On Contemporary Literature (Avon, l964; enlarged & revised ed. l969; hardback, Books for Libraries, l971). Twelve from the Sixties (Dell, l967). The Young American Writers (Funk & Wagnalls, l967). Beyond Left & Right: Radical Thought for Our Times (Morrow, l968; abridged in Japanese, Diamond, l973). Possibilities of Poetry (Delta, l970). Imaged Words & Worded Images (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, l970). Moholy-Nagy (Praeger, l970; Allen Lane-Penguin, l97l; updated, Da Capo, 1991). John Cage (Praeger, l970; Allen Lane-Penguin, l97l; in German, DuMont Schauberg, l973; abridged, in Spanish, Editorial Anagrama, l974; updated, Da Capo, 1991). Social Speculations (Morrow, l971). Human Alternatives (Morrow, l971). Future's Fictions (Panache, l971). Seeing through Shuck (Ballantine, l972). In Youth (Ballantine, l972). Breakthrough Fictioneers (Something Else, l973). The Edge of Adaptation (Prentice-Hall, l973). Language & Structure (Kensington Arts, l975). Essaying Essays (Out of London Press, l975). Younger Critics in North America (Margins, l976). Assembling Assembling (Assembling, l978). Esthetics Contemporary (Prometheus, l978; revised ed., 1989). Visual Literature Criticism (Southern Illinois Univ., l979). A Critical Assembling (Assembling, l979). Text-Sound Texts (Morrow, l980). The Yale Gertrude Stein (Yale Univ., l980). Scenarios (Assembling, l980). Kerouac Reconsidered (RK Editions, 1980), Aural Literature Criticism (Precisely-Archae Editions, l981). American Writing Today (Two volumes, Voice of America Forum Series, l98l; revised ed., Whitston, 1991). The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature (Prometheus, l982). The Literature of SoHo (Shantih, 1992). Gertrude Stein Advanced (McFarland, 1991). Merce Cunningham (A Cappella, 1992; revised ed., Da Capo, 1998). John Cage: Writer (Limelight, 1993; Cooper Square, 2000). Writings about John Cage (Univ. of Michigan, 1993). Nicolas Slonimsky: The First 100 Years (Schirmer, 1994). A Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Schirmer, 1995). Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music (with Joseph Darby, Schirmer, 1996). A B. B. King Companion (Schirmer, 1997; revised as A B. B. King Reader, Hal Leonard, 2005). Writings on Glass (Schirmer, 1997; Univ. of California, 1999). A Frank Zappa Companion (1997), AnOther E. E. Cummings (Liveright, 1998). Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings 1924-1984 (Routledge, 2002). The Gertrude Stein Reader (Cooper Square, 2002). Aaron Copland: A Reader, Selected Writings (Routledge, 2003).
COLLECTIONS EDITED & CO-AUTHORED
The New American Arts (Horizon, 1965; paperback, Collier, 1967; in Spanish, Bibliografica Omeba, 1967; in Portuguese, Lidador, 1968).
LIMITED EDITIONS PRINTS & BOOKS
Obliterate (Ironwhosebook, 1974). Numbers One (1975). Echo (1975). Word Prints (1976). Tabula Rasa (Archae Editions, l978). Inexistences (Archae Editions, l978). Milestones in a Life (Pittsburgh Poetry on the Buses, 1980), More Portraits from Memory (Archae, 1990). Constructs Three (Archae Editions, 1991). Intermix (Archae Editions, 1991). Constructs Four (Archae Editions, 1991). Flipping (Archae Editions, 1991). Constructs Five (Archae Editions, 1991). Fifty Constructivist Stories (Archae Editions, 1991). Two Intervals (Francesco Conz, 1991). Constructs Six (Archae Editions, 1991). Dis/Sections (Aseidad, 2003). Likes/Dislikes (Archae Editions, 2004). Contagion: A Novel (Archae Editions, 2004). Stringtwo (Archae Editions, 2004). Warm/Cold (Archae Editions, 2004). Reimagining Rockaway Postcards (Archae Editions, 2004). Infinities-Stories (Image Warehouse, 2005). Erotic Minimal Fictions (Archae Editions, 2005). Erotic Micrography (Archae Editions, 2006). Archae’s Alphabet (Archae Editions, 2006). Minimal Aphorisms (2007). 3-Letter Texts (2007). Two-Letter Texts (2007). Kosti’s Aphorisms (2008). An Autobiography in Titles (2008). English English (2008). Categories of Cultural Activity (2008). Finitiesin1 (2008). We Refuse (2008). Yet More Portraits from Memory (2008). Black Writings (2010).
TEXTS EXCLUSIVELY ON THE INTERNET
277 Contemporary Ballets (http://richardkostelanetz.com/wireless/index.wml, 2001), InSerts (Great Works, 2007). “One-Letter Changes” (ActionYes , 2008). Infinite Aphorisms (Little Red Leaves, 2008). Endings (St. George Hotel, 2010).
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, POEMS, FICTION, EXPERIMENTAL PROSE, PLAYS, SCENARIOS, PHOTOGRAPHS, and VISUAL ART
in scores of publications prominent and obscure around the world.
THEATRICAL TEXTS
Epiphanies, directed by Suzanne Bennett at the Univ. of North Dakota in l980 and by Elizabeth St. John Villard at Vassar College, l98l. Lovings, directed by Barbara Vann at the Medicine Show, New York, March 22-24, 1991; Motion & Desire Festival, Cleveland, OH, April 4, 1992. Minimal Audio Plays, Medicine Show, 14 May 1997.
ONE-PERSON CONCERTS
Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), West End Bar (NY), Placenter (NY), Arizona State Univ., Hollins College, Whitman College, Cabrillo Community College (CA), Easthampton Guild Hall (NY), Univ. of Texas, Cornell College (Iowa), Art Research Center (Kansas City), Brooklyn Museum, Great Neck Public Library (NY), Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Park (NY), Univ. of Lethbridge, Univ. of Iowa, Univ. of Oklahoma, Richland Community College (TX), Ball State Univ., The Kitchen (NY), Books & So (Amsterdam), Pleiades Gallery (NY), Viridian Gallery (NY), Roulette (NY), etc.
TEXTS FOR COMPOSERS
He Met Her in the Park for Charles Dodge (1982). Wasting for Paul Lansky and Andrew Milburn, on Winham Laboratory at Princeton University (Centaur, 1990). Yes Me, for Noah Creshevsky, Three Wordless Songs (1991). CHOREOGRAPHY SCORES: Invocations (abridged & rearranged) for Secret Services (Manuel Alum), at Univ. of Puerto Rico, 1985; St. Marks Church, NYC, 1986.
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Christopher Stephens, NYC (prints, books, drawings, 1975), Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor (prints, books, l975), University of Toledo (prints, books, audiotapes, l977), Bertha Urdang, NYC (canvases, l977), PS 1, Long Island City, NY (books, l978), Tulsa Central Library (books, l978), Long Island University, Brooklyn (prints, l978), University of South Carolina (videotapes, l978), Simon Fraser University (retrospective, l978), University of Alberta (retrospective, l978), Cornell College, Iowa (retrospective, l979), Micro Gallery, San Jose State Univ. (photographs, 1980), California State College, Bakersfield (retrospective, l980), University of North Dakota (retrospective, l980), Miami-Dade Community College (retrospective, 1980), Vassar College (retrospective, l981), Art Research Center, Kansas City (books, 1983), Freedman Gallery and Gingrich Library Gallery, Albright College (books & texts, 1983). Fusion Arts, NY (Video) 2005. More Wordsand (retrospective, forthcoming).
PUBLIC ART PROPOSALS
One of three finalists for the arcade ceiling of a projected Justice Center, Portland, OR, in 1981. SCULPTURAL COMMISSIONS: Piano Anagram (for Francesco Conz, 1991). EXHIBITION GUEST-CURATED: Language & Structure in North America (Kensington Arts Association, Toronto, 1974; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; George Washington University, DC, l975-76).
ONE-PERSON RECORDS & DISCS
Invocations (Folkways, 1983). The Gospels Abridged (Norton Foundation, 1990). AUDIOCASSETTE EDITIONS: Experimental Prose (Assembling, 1976), Openings & Closings (RK Editions, 1976), Foreshortenings & Other Stories (RK Editions, 1977), Asdescent/Anacatabasis (RK Editions, l978), Audio Art (RK Editions, l978), Seductions/Relationships (RK Editions, 1983), Two German Hörspiele: Conversations & Dialogues (RK Editions, 1983), Two Sacred Texts: The Eight Nights of Hanukah/Praying to the Lord (RK Editions, 1983), Audio Writing (RK Editions, 1984), Americas' Game (RK Editions, 1988), Onomatopoeia (RK Editions, 1988), Carnival of the Animals/Karneval der Tiere (RK Editions, 1988).
HÖRSPIEL (EXTENDED AUDIO ART)
Some of those works noted immediately before, which include the revised version of Praying to the Lord produced in 1981 for the Satellite Development Program Fund. Invocations (1981; revised, 1984), broadcast over Sender Freies Berlin, Canadian Broadcasting, Australian Broadcasting, KRO-Holland, the Yugoslav Third Programme and local American stations. Die Evangelien (1982) commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. The Gospels (1982), on WBAI in New York. The Eight Nights of Hanukah (1983), commissioned by Canadian Broadcasting and rebroadcast over WDR. New York City (1984), commissioned by WDR and rebroadcast over Australian Broadcasting. The Gospels Abridged (1986). Le Bateau Ivre/The Drunken Boat (1986). Kaddish (1990), commissioned by WDR. Ululation (1992). Epiphanies (1992).
FILMS
Constructivist Fictions (1976-77), with Peter Longauer (honorable mention in Classe Independant at the 25th Festival Mondial du Cinema de Courts Metrages, Huy, Belgium, 1985). Openings & Closings (1976-78), with Bart Weiss. Ein Verlorenes Berlin (1983), Ett Forlorat Berlin (1984), A Berlin Lost (1985), Berlin Perdu (1986), El Berlin Perdido (1987), Berlin Sche-Einena Jother (1988), all with Martin Koerber, and subsequently screened at international festivals in Berlin, Oberhausen, Munich, Melbourne, Edinburgh, etc. Epiphanies (1981-93), parts of which have been screened at alternative film venues; another part of which with a German soundtrack appeared on the North German television network.
VIDEOTAPES/DVDs
Three Prose Pieces (1975), Openings & Closings (1975), Declaration of Independence (1979), Epiphanies (1980), Partitions (1986), Seductions/Relationships (1987). Invocations (1987). Video Writing (1987), The Gospels Abridged (1988), Videostrings (1989), Stringsieben (1989), Kinetic Writings (1989). Onomatopoeia (1990). Stringtwo (1990). Kaddish (1991). The Eight Nights of Hanukah (1991). Americas’ Game (2001). Video Poems (2004). Video Fictions (2004). Infinities (2006)
HOLOGRAMS
On Holography (1978), Antitheses (1985), Ho/Log/Rap/Her (1989), Ho/Log/Rap/Hy (1989), Madam (1989), Abracadabra (1989), Ambiguity (1989), Hell/Elle (with Eduardo Kac, 1988). Included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Holography (NY) and elsewhere.
OBJECTS
Stringtwo (handwritten on extended adding-machine tape, 1978). TexTiles (4” square, 1995), Stringtwo (paper over 200 feet long, 2004). Contaigion: A Novel (acetate, 50' long, 2004). Likes/Dislikes (clear film, 2004). Infinities (continuous Mobius strips, 2004). This Sentence (strips of paper, 2004). Antitheses (clear film, 2004). Erotic Minimal Fictions (paper strips, 2005). English English (paper stripes in a circular container) Minimal Aphorisms (strips of paper in a circular container, 2007). Identicals (semi-transparent vinyl, 2007). Two-Letter Texts (jars, 2008). Kosti's Aphorisms (jars, 2008). Three-Letter Texts (Jars, 2008). We Refuse (100+ cards, 2008). Reflections on Lovings and Relationships (66 cards, 2008). Yet More Portraits from Memory (250+ gold cards, 2008). Sinfinitie (Jars, 2008). Incredible English (5000+ sheets, 2010), Black Writings (2010).
EXTENDED FEATURES FOR RADIO
Audio Art (1978) for Australian Broadcasting, and abridged, with different examples, as Hörliteratur (1983) for Sender Freies Berlin. Text-Sound in North America (1981) for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and abridged as Amerikanische Klangtexte (1983) for Sender Freies Berlin, and further abridged for RAI (Italy). Hörspiel USA: Radio Comedy (1983) for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Sveriges Radio. Glenn Gould als Hörspielmacher (1983) for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Sudwestfunk, Ostreischer Rundfunk, Swiss Radio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Nach Weissensee (1984, with two co-authors) for RIAS-Berlin. Audio Writing (ABC, 1984). Interviews with Charles Dodge and Doris Hays (ABC, 1984). Komische Hörspiel Made in America Heute (WDR, 1985). A Special Time: the 1960s (American Public Radio, 1985). Radiopionier Rudolf Arnheim (WDR, 1986). Hörspielmacher Tony Schwartz (WDR, 1987). Orson Welles: Vom Hörspiel zum Film (WDR, 1988). Hörspiel USA auf Schallplatte (WDR, 1989). Norman Corwin: Pioniere der US-Radio Kunst (WDR, 1991).
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Brown Univ., Harvard Univ., Wellesley College, Haverford College, and scores of other institutions around the world. GROUP SCREENINGS OF FILMS AND/OR VIDEOTAPES & GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Dozens of venues around the world. TALKS & INTERVIEWS: British Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting, Canadian Broadcasting, Deutsche Welle, Belgische Radio, National Public Radio Weekend Edition and numerous American stations, in addition to local National Public Radio stations serviced by its Modular Arts Service and local recipients of National Educational Broadcasting syndication.
VIDEO LECTURES & INTERVIEWS
Film portraits of Milton Babbitt and Ralph Ellison, as producer-interviewer, “New Release,” BBC (1965-66). “Poetry To See &Poetry To Hear,” written and narrated for Camera Three-CBS Network (1974). “Conversation with John Cage,” Artists Video Network (1978).
SOLO SCREENINGS OF FILMS AND/OR VIDEOTAPES
Anthology Film Archives (NY), Global Village (NY), Western Front (Vancouver), Donnell Library (NY), Arsenal, Berlin), Goethe House (NY), Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, University of Kentucky, Brooklyn College, Weisseshaus (Hamburg), B.N.D. (Brooklyn), Bumbershoot (Seattle, WA), Penn State Univ., etc.
OTHER SOURCES
Individual entries in various editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors &Poets, Who’s Who in Hell, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Advocates for Self-Government, Directory of American Scholars--History (1969, 1974) & English, Speech & Drama (1978), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. XXVIII (1984), Postmodern Fiction (1986), Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, 8 (1989), Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Eighth ed., 1991), The Concise Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1994), A Reader's Guide to 20th Century Writers (Oxford, 1995), Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature (1995), Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors (1995), Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th-Century Musicians (1997), Britannica.com (2000), Wikipedia (2005), Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers (2001), The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature (2002), Chronology of American Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (2005), NNDB.com (2004).