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A Marathon Reading of Robert Duncan’s ‘Ground Work’
March 3, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeEach winter, the Spare Room reading series hosts a marathon reading of a long work. This year, we are observing the centenary of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), a central figure of Bay Area poetry associated with the Berkeley Renaissance and Black Mountain groups. We’ll read Duncan’s last two collections, Ground Work: Before the War (1984) and Ground Work: In the Dark (1988), which together form a single work, reprinted in a single volume by New Directions in 2006.
The reading is free; come and go as you please or stay for the whole thing!
There will be a beverage table (BYO and sharing encouraged).
More about Robert Duncan:
Michael Palmer’s preface to Ground Work (2006)
Audio from Duncan’s readings and lectures on PennSound
Readers, in approximate order of appearance:
Sam Lohmann
Patrick Hartigan
Marilyn Stablein
Jesse Morse
Rodney Koeneke
Michael Weaver
James Yeary
Seann McCollum
Tom DeBeauchamp
John Beer
Laura Feldman
Evan Corcoran
David Abel
Chris Ashby