Kenneth Koch Audio and Video

There's not a whole lot of Kenneth Koch audio available on the web (though seeking out recordings from his estate to expand his PennSound author page is a project I'd like to pursue at some point in the future). For now, if you visit his page, you'll find a single reading from a little over a decade ago. Practically the entire reading is dedicated to micro-dramas from his One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, or songs from the plays, but he does read a lengthy excerpt from "My Olivetti Speaks" (an Olivetti is a brand of typewriter, by the way; c.f. Ron Padgett's "Olivetti Lettera"), and his reading of "One Train May Hide Another" is breathtaking:

• from My Olivetti Speaks (10:14)
• One Train (5:57)

On UbuWeb, there's a single poem taken from the Giorno Poetry Systems album, Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse, and a hilarious, spontaneously composed collaboration with Allen Ginsberg from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church on the Bowery:

• Spring (1:33)
• Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death (with Allen Ginsberg) (7:52)

Again, here's a link to the Poetry Foundation's podcast, "The Poetry Assassination of Kenneth Koch":

• The Poetry Assassination of Kenneth Koch (10:15)

If you follow the link below, you can download a reading Koch did at the Naropa Institute in 1981. and a lecture from 1979 in which he discusses his writing life and his friendships with Ashbery and O'Hara:

• Kenneth Koch reading, June 1981
• Kenneth Koch lecture, June 1979

Finally, here's a short and very new video in which David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind discuss Kenneth Koch as a teacher: