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1. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle: Readings and Interview [6.372% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle: Readings and Interview Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 108 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Author, poet, and political activist, Kay Boyle, reads a chapter from her novella “The Crazy Hunter”, about a horse that went blind, as well as an essay about Dylan Thomas entitled “A Declaration for 1955”. In the second half of the program, the author talks with Kay Bonetti, about her life. They discuss the similarities between Reagan and McCarthy, the counter-culture of the 1960s compared to the milieu of Paris in the 1920s, as well as Boyle’s memories of such luminaries as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, and others. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [a reading from chapter four of “The Crazy Hunter”] (38:30) -- [a reading from “A Declaration for 1955”] (13:15) Performers: Kay Boyle, reader Subject: Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 ; Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 ; Horses -- Fiction People: Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 First Broadcast Date: 2/19/1988 Part 2 of 2: Genres: Poetry ; Lite...

2. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle Day: Part 3 [6.329% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle Day: Part 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. She became increasingly politically active and was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she soon became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University from 1962 to 1979. She published over 40 books, i...

3. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle’s Amnesty International Benefit Reading (1987) [6.325% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle’s Amnesty International Benefit Reading (1987) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Author, poet, and political activist, Kay Boyle reads an excerpt from her 1933 novel “Gentleman, I Address You Privately”, in a program recorded on February 21, 1987 at San Francisco State University during an Amnesty International Benefit in her honor. The novel, which Boyle partially rewrote after this reading, tells of the adventures of an English clergyman forced out of the Church for unspecified behavior, and who then seeks to eke out a fortune as a piano teacher. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PN. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. Always politically active, Boyle eventually became involved with Amnesty International, and was instr...

4. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle Day: Part 2 [6.325% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle Day: Part 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 180 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. She became increasingly politically active and was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she soon became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University from 1962 to 1979. She published over 40 books, i...

5. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle Day: Part 1 [6.319% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle Day: Part 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 170 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. She became increasingly politically active and was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she soon became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University from 1962 to 1979. She published over 40 books, i...

6. radiOM.org - Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle [6.314% Popularity: 0.00000]

Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Erik Bauersfeld and Lee Jenkins of KPFA interview poet, author, and political activist, Kay Boyle, about her 1975 novel “The Underground Woman.” The novel, which is semi-autobiographical, follows the life of classics professor Athena’s experience being imprisoned for protesting the draft, as well as a later run-in with her daughter, who has joined a cult and tried to take over her mother’s house. An attempt that is thwarted when Athena gives ownership of the house to a third party. This is similar to the tact that Boyle herself had to take when her own child became involved with a cult during the 1960s. Genre: Literature Subject: Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 ; Literature ; Fiction ; Parent and child -- Fiction ; Cults -- Fiction ; Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction People: Bauersfeld, Erik ; Jenkins, Mercilee M. ; Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 First Broadcast Date: 7/...

7. radiOM.org - Frontiers: The Poetry of Kay Boyle [6.306% Popularity: 0.00000]

Frontiers: The Poetry of Kay Boyle Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Recorded at the KPFA studios on August 25, 1986 Kay Boyle reads a selection of her poems. One of America’s most important writers of the 20th century, and a close friend of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Kay Boyle was one of the longest surviving member of those American artists and writers that lived in Paris during the 1920’s. She was also quite politically active in the support of pacifism and political prisoners and was even blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she also became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. Many of these political concerns found there way into her stories and poetry, as the selections heard here will clearly attest to. Musical Selections: Spring [excerpt] (1:17) -- The New Immigration (2:28) -- A Communication to Nancy Cunard...

8. radiOM.org - The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 1 [5.080% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 36 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful. In 1922 he was stuck down with encephalitis lethargica, an illness that causes the victim to shake and to convulse uncontrollably and continuously, until death intervenes. He soon returned home to Italy as an impoverished and disabled man where he died in 1942. These essays provide a telling account of his early childhood and offer insights into how a tragic beginning is often...

9. radiOM.org - The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 2 [5.078% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 39 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful. In 1922 he was stuck down with encephalitis lethargica, an illness that causes the victim to shake and to convulse uncontrollably and continuously, until death intervenes. He soon returned home to Italy as an impoverished and disabled man where he died in 1942. These essays provide a telling account of his first loves and the events that led to his journey to New York, and as ...

10. radiOM.org - The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 3 [5.078% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 44 min Event Type: Spoken Word Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful. In 1922 he was stuck down with encephalitis lethargica, an illness that causes the victim to shake and to convulse uncontrollably and continuously, until death intervenes. He soon returned home to Italy as an impoverished and disabled man where he died in 1942. These essays provide a telling account of his journey to the United States and the troubles he had as a young immigrant in New York City f...