Gordon Ball, 5th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Authors

Gordon Ball

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-5-1982

Location

Webb University Center

Author/Artist Bio

Gordon Ball is an assistant professor of American literature at Old Dominion University. After spending most of his childhood in Japan, Ball returned to the United States, and in 1980 received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. In addition to his work in contemporary American literature, Ball has worked as an avant-garde filmmaker, studying with Jonas Mekas in New York City. He has also edited "Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, and Consciousness" (McGraw-Hill, 1974) and "Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties" (Grove Press, 1977). Ball is currently editing another volume of Ginsberg's journals.

Description

Ball read with Allen Ginsberg on Tuesday, October 5th, 1982 at 2:00 p.m.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Ball, Gordon, "Gordon Ball, 5th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1982). 5th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 4-7, 1982. 7.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1982/7