Poet Talk on WMUA

Ted Pearson

1 h 2 min · 30 mei 2026
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In a career spanning six decades, Ted Pearson has published thirty-two books of poetry, most recently Epistrophy and Trilogy. He also co-authored The Grand Piano, a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography; edited Epilogue, a posthumous edition of Craig Watson’s last poems, and co-edited Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson. His work has appeared in Canada, England, France, Spain, and India.  Ted was born and raised on the San Francisco peninsula, a seventh generation Californian. His musical education began in 1960. His first sa teacher was Lee Konitz. In 1964, he began writing poetry at the suggestion of Paul Desmond, a family friend. He subsequently attended Vandercook College of Music, Foothill College, and San Francisco State University.   His first book appeared in 1976, when he began his life-long association with the San Francisco Language Poets. He has been a visiting lecturer in poetics at Cornell University, and has taught Composition and Rhetoric at Wayne State University and the University of Redlands. He now lives in Northampton.

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