This episode of "Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas" was first broadcast on WGXC on Mar 04, 2017.

"Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas" aired on WGXC from November 2015 to June 2017.

This is the story, recorded in 1975, of a poet and a movement that fueled the careers of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Edward Gorey. The segment includes recorded readings by the late Bunny, as well as interviews by Charles Ruas and poet Susan Howe with her colleagues Alison Lurie, Ashbery, and Mary Manning . Now celebrated writers and academics in their own right, the participants discuss the many moods and peculiar habits of Bunny, her influence, and her light and dark sides. V.R. "Bunny" Lang was a poet, playwright, and actress. She was the founding editor of the Chicago Review and was a pivotal player in the establishment of Cambridge's The Poets' Theater. She died in 1956 of Hodgkin's disease at the age of 32.

Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "A unparalleled collection of recovered and restored programs from the seventies produced by Charles Ruas for WBAI-FM, New York's Pacifica station. It features reading, lectures, and performances by such cultural and literary icons as Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anaïs Nin, William Boroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges, among numerous others.

Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. He is also a contributor to ARTNews and Art in America. This series is produced in partnership with Charles Ruas, The Pacifica Radio Archives, The Yale Beinecke Library, The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Collection, and numerous restorers, archivists and collectors."

Tune in for selections from the WGXC archives featuring past broadcasts of programs that consisted of community talk, produced interviews, music, and/or radio art that were broadcast on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.