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The most recent collections of his own poetry are New Addresses (Knopf, 2000), On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950–1988 and One Train, a collection of new work (both published by Knopf in 1994). His books of poetry include Seasons on Earth (1987), On the Edge (1986), The Duplications (1977), The Art of Love (1975), When the Sun Tries to Go On (1969), Thank You and Other Poems (1962), and Ko (1960). His plays, many of them produced off- and off-off-Broadway, are collected in A Change of Hearts (1973), One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (1988) and The Gold Standard (1996). He has also published fiction — The Red Robins (1975), a novel, and Hotel Lambosa (1988), short stories. His collaborations with painters have been the subject of exhibitions at the Ipswich Museum in England and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. He received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1995 and has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Ingram-Merrill and Guggenheim foundations. Kenneth Koch taught at Columbia University. Thanks to the Poetry Projects at St Mark’s in the Bowery, New York, for this note. Links to items in Jacket magazine: Jacket 5: Very Rapid Acceleration: An Interview with Kenneth Koch Jacket 5: David Lehman — The Last Avant-Garde — Introduction Jacket 6: Paul Hoover — Review of David Lehman, The Last Avant-Garde Jacket 10: Russell Ferguson — Frank O’Hara and American Art Jacket 15: Kenneth Koch tribute Jacket 16: Bill Berkson: Working with Joe Jacket 16: Ken Bolton reviews New and Selected Poems, by Tony Towle Jacket 17: David Lehman — The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax — Introduction Jacket 17: Michael Heyward — The Ern Malley Affair. Steve Dickison: Kenneth Koch: a partial bibliography. Bibliography — thanks to Steve Dickison, Director of the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco CA 94132 vox 415-338-3401 : fax 415-338-0966 : http://www.sfsu.edu/ Poetry. Poems, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Ko; or, A Season on Earth (also see below), Grove (New York City), 1959. Permanently, Tiber Press, 1960. Thank You and Other Poems, Grove, 1962. Poems from 1952 and 1953 (limited edition), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1968. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems, Grove, 1969. When the Sun Tries to Go On, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Sleeping with Women (limited edition), Black Sparrow Press, 1969. The Art of Love, Random House (New York City), 1975. The Duplications (also see below), Random House, 1977. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951, Random House, 1979. Days and Nights, Random House, 1982. Selected Poems, 1950-1982, Random House, 1985. On the Edge, Viking (New York City), 1986. Seasons on Earth (includes Ko; or, A Season on Earth and The Duplications), Penguin (New York City), 1987. Selected Poems, Carcanet (Manchester, England), 1991. One Train: Poems, Knopf (New York City), 1994, Carcanet, 1997. On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, Knopf, 1994. Straits: Poems, Knopf, 1998. New Addresses: Poems, Knopf, 2000. Fiction. (With Alex Katz) Interlocking Lives, Kulchur Foundation (New York City), 1970. The Red Robins (also see below), Random House, 1975. Hotel Lambosa and Other Stories, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1993. Non-fiction. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, Chelsea House (New York City), 1970. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children, Random House, 1973. I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home, Random. House, 1977, revised edition, Teachers and Writers Collaborative (New York City), 1997. Les couleurs des voyelles: pour faire ecrire de la poesie aux enfants, Casterman (Paris), 1978. Desideri Sogni Bugie, Emme Edizioni (Milan), 1980. (With Kate Farrell) Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry, with Essays on Reading and Writing, Random House, 1981. (With Farrell) Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Holt (New York City), 1985. The Art of Poetry (literary criticism), University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1996. Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, Scribner, 1998. Plays. Little Red Riding Hood, produced in New York City at the Theatre de Lys, 1953. Bertha (also see below), produced in New York City at Living Theatre, 1959, produced as an opera, music by Ned Rorem, 1971. Pericles (also see below), produced Off-Broadway, 1960. The Election (also see below), produced in New York City at Living Theatre, 1960. George Washington Crossing the Delaware (also see below), produced Off-Broadway, 1962. The Construction of Boston (also see below), produced Off-Broadway, 1962, produced in Boston as an opera, music by Scott Wheeler, 1990- 91. Guinevere; or, The Death of the Kangaroo (also see below), produced in New York City at New York Theatre for Poets, 1964. The Tinguely Machine Mystery; or, The Love Suicides at Kaluka (also see below), produced in New York City at the Jewish Museum, 1965. The Moon Balloon (also see below), produced in New York City in Central Park, 1969. The Artist (opera; based on poem of the same title; music by Paul Reif), produced in New York City at Whitney Museum, 1972. A Little Light, produced in Amagansett, NY, 1972. The Gold Standard (also see below), produced in New York City, 1975. Rooster Redivivus, produced in Garnerville, NY, 1975. The Red Robins (based on novel of the same title; produced in New York City at Theater at St. Clement's, 1978), Theatre Arts, 1979. The New Diana, produced in New York City at New York Art Theatre Institute, 1984. A Change of Hearts (opera; also see below), produced in New York City at Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, 1985. Popeye among the Polar Bears, produced in New York City at Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, 1986. (With composer Marcello Panni) The Banquet, produced in Bremen, Germany, at the Bremen Opera, 1998. Omnibus volumes of plays. Bertha and Other Plays, Grove, 1966. A Change of Hearts: Plays, Films, and Other Dramatic Works, 1951-1971, Random House, 1973. One Thousand Avant-garde Plays (produced by Medicine Show in New York City at the Marymount Theatre, 1987), Knopf, 1988. The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays, Knopf, 1996. Other. (Editor, with Ron Padgett & Larry Fagin, and author of introduction) Joseph Ceravolo, The Green Lake Is Awake: Selected Poems, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1994. KOCH, Kenneth. Nationality: American. Born: Cincinnati, Ohio, 27 February 1925. Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. 1948; Columbia University, New York, M.A. 1953, Ph.D. 1959. Military Service: U.S. Army, 1943–46. Family: Married 1) Mary Janice Elwood in 1955 (died 1981), one daughter; 2) Karen Culler in 1994. Career: Lecturer in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1953– 54, 1955–56, 1957–58, and Brooklyn College, 1957–59; director of the Poetry Workshop, New School for Social Research, New York, 1958–66. Lecturer, 1959–61, assistant professor, 1962–66, associate professor, 1966–71, and since 1971 professor of English, Columbia University. Associated with Locus Solus magazine, Lans-en-Vercors, France, 1960–62. Awards: Fulbright fellow-ship, 1950, 1978; Guggenheim fellowship, 1961; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1966; Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, 1969; Harbison award, for teaching, 1970; Frank O'Hara prize ( Poetry, Chicago), 1973; American Academy award, 1976; Bollingen prize for poetry, 1995; Bobbitt prize for poetry, Library of Congress, 1996; chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et des lettres, 1998. Member: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1996. Address: Department of English, 414 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, U.S.A. Publications. Poetry. Poems. New York, Tibor de Nagy, 1953. Ko; or, A Season on Earth. New York, Grove Press, 1960. Permanently. New York, Tiber Press, 1960. Thank You and Other Poems. New York, Grove Press, 1962. Poems from 1952 and 1953. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Sleeping with Women. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems. New York, Grove Press, 1969. Penguin Modern Poets 24, with Kenward Elmslie and James Schuyler. London, Penguin, 1973. The Art of Love. New York, Random House, 1975. The Duplications. New York, Random House, 1977. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. New York, Random House, 1979. From the Air. London, Taranman, 1979. Days and Nights. New York, Random House, 1982. Selected Poems 1950–1982. New York, Random House, 1985. On the Edge. New York, Viking, 1986. Seasons on Earth. New York, Viking, 1987. One Train. New York, Knopf, 1994. On the Great Atlantic Rainway, Selected Poems 1950–1988. New York, Knopf, 1994. Straits. New York, Knopf, 1998. New Addresses. New York, Knopf, 2000. Plays. Bertha (produced New York, 1959). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. The Election (also director: produced New York, 1960). Included in A Change of Hearts, 1973. Pericles (produced New York, 1960). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. George Washington Crossing the Delaware (in 3 x 3, produced New York, 1962; produced separately, London, 1983). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. The Construction of Boston (produced New York, 1962). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. Guinevere; or, The Death of the Kangaroo (produced New York, 1964). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. The Tinguely Machine Mystery; or, The Love Suicides at Kaluka (also co-director: produced New York, 1965). Included in A Change of Hearts, 1973. Bertha and Other Plays (includes Pericles, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, The Construction of Boston, Guinevere; or, The Death of the Kangaroo, The Gold Standard, The Return of Yellowmay, The Revolt of the Giant Animals, The Building of Florence, Angelica, The Merry Stones, The Academic Murders, Easter, The Lost Feed, Mexico, Coil Supreme ). New York, Grove Press, 1966. The Gold Standard (produced New York, 1969). Included in Bertha and Other Plays, 1966. The Moon Balloon (produced New York, 1969). Included in A Change of Hearts, 1973. The Artist, music by Paul Reif, adaptation of the poem "The Artist" by Koch (produced New York, 1972). Poem included in Thank You and Other Poems, 1962. A Little Light (produced Amagansett, New York, 1972). A Change of Hearts: Plays, Films, and Other Dramatic Works 1951–1971 (includes the contents of Bertha and Other Plays, and A Change of Hearts; E. Kology; The Election; The Tinguely Machine Mystery; The Moon Balloon; Without Kinship; Ten Films: Because, The Color Game, Mountains and Electricity, Sheep Harbor, Oval Gold, Moby Dick, L'Ecole Normale, The Cemetery, The Scotty Dog, and The Apple; Youth; and The Enchantment). New York, Random House, 1973. A Change of Hearts, music by David Hollister (produced New York, 1985). Included in A Change of Hearts (collection), 1973. Rooster Redivivus (produced Garnerville, New York, 1975). The Art of Love, adaptation of his own poem (produced Chicago, 1976). The Red Robins, adaptation of his own novel (produced New York, 1978). New York, Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1979. The New Diana (produced New York, 1984). Popeye among the Polar Bears (produced New York, 1986). One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays. New York, Knopf, 1988. The Construction of Boston, music by Scott Wheeler (produced Boston, 1990). The Banquet, opera with music by Marcello Panni (produced Bremen, Germany, 1998). Screenplays: The Scotty Dog, 1967; The Apple, 1968. Novel. The Red Robins. New York, Random House, 1975. Short Stories. Interlocking Lives, with Alex Katz. New York, Kulchur Press, 1970. Hotel Lambosa. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1993. Other. John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch (A Conversation). Tucson, Interview Press, 1965(?). Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry. New York, Random House, 1970. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. New York, Random House, 1973. I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. New York, Random House, 1977. Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry. New York, Scribner, 1998. Editor, with Kate Farrell, Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry, with Essays on Reading and Writing. New York, Random House, 1981. Editor, with Kate Farrell, Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. New York, Holt Rinehart, 1985; London, Viking Kestrel, 1986. Theatrical Activities: Director: Plays: The Election, New York, 1960; The Tinguely Machine Mystery (co-director, with Remy Charlip), New York, 1965. Bibliography: "Kenneth Koch: An Analytic List of Bibliographies" by Vincent Prestianni, in Sagetrieb (Orono, Maine), 12(1), spring 1993. Critical Studies: Interview with Kenneth Koch by David Spurr, in Contemporary Poetry (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), 3(4), 1978; "Beyond Irony" by David Spurr, in American Poetry Review (Philadelphia), 12(2), March-April 1983; "Kenneth Koch Revisited" by Robert DiYanni, in Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Battle Creek, Michigan), 9(1), spring 1984; "Marianne Moore and the New York School: O'Harra, Ashbery, Koch" by Rosanne Wasserman, in Sagetrieb (Orono, Maine), 6(3), winter 1987; "'Why, It's Right There in the Proces Verbal': The New York School of Poets" by Geoff Ward, in Cambridge Quarterly (Oxford), 21(3), 1992; "Dr. Fun" by David Lehman, in American Poetry Review (Philadelphia), 24(6), November-December 1995; "Kenneth Koch" by Jordan Davis, in American Poetry Review (Philadelphia), 25(6), November-December 1996. Kenneth Koch was one of the three principal poets of the New York school in the middle and late 1950s, a somewhat amorphous and short-lived group that also included John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. The three had joined forces while students at Harvard before transferring their activities to New York, where they became associated with the painters who were then ascendant in the American art world, a group known as abstract expressionists. To a certain extent the poets seemed to be bringing to verbal constructs the principles of abstract expressionism; that is, they used words totally abstractly and evocatively. At the same time their prosodic practice was in revolt against the academic austerity of mid-century American poetry, and their use of syntax and measure resembled that of the contemporaneous beat movement. What distinguished the two groups, if anything, was the New York poets' retention of an earlier idea of art as in some sense a puristic activity, not socially amenable, and of the art object as distinct from and perhaps superior to the objects of "ordinary reality." In addition, Koch was, during a period of residence abroad, deeply influenced by French poetry of the time, with its emphasis on psychological particularism. These groupings and distinctions have long since broken down, of course. Koch's association with New York poetry was, in effect, his apprenticeship. Much of his early work was very far out indeed; some was frankly incomprehensible, even to the poet. Since then Koch has elevated his lyric view to another level, not in the least realistic but better organized and more simplified than his earlier view, with the result that some of his later work has been extremely effective. The freedom of his earlier verbal technique has given him a felicity that occasionally still descends to surrealistic glibness but that at its best is remarkably inventive and accurate. At the same time, substantially fixed in his poems is a depth of metaphysical concern that gives them the drive and intensity of genuinely serious experiments. One distinction of the New York poets was their devotion to the lyric theater. Their connection with off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway gave them opportunities for experiments with dramatic writing that were open to few poets elsewhere in the country. Some of Koch's best writing occurs in the several books of plays he has published, books that have been generally neglected, however, by American poetry readers and critics. Kenneth Koch. Kenneth Koch (1925-2002). Courtesy Poets & Writers . Kenneth Jay Koch (February 27, 1925 - July 6, 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and academic. [1] Contents. Life [ edit | edit source ] Youth and education [ edit | edit source ] Koch (pronounced coke) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Stuart Koch, who owned a furniture store, and Lillian Koch, who wrote amateur literary reviews. [1] He began writing poetry at an early age, discovering the work of Shelley and Keats in his teenage years. At the age of 18, he served in World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the Philippines. After his Army service, he attended Harvard University, where he met future New York School poet John Ashbery. He graduated from Harvard in 1948, and moved to New York City, where he studied for and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Career [ edit | edit source ] In 1951 Knott met Janice Elwood, at University of California, Berkeley; they married in 1954, and lived in France and Italy for over a year. Their daughter, Katherine, was born in Rome in 1955. In 1959 Knott joined the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He he taught classes at Columbia for over 40 years. In 1962, Koch was writer in residence at the New York City Writer's Conference at Wagner College. The 1960s saw his first published books of poetry, but his poetry did not garner wider popular acclaim until the 1970s with his book The Art of Love: Poems (1975). He continued writing poetry and releasing books of poetry up until his death. In 1970, Koch released a pioneering book in poetry education, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching children To write poetry . Over the next 30 years, he followed this book with other books and anthologies on poetry education tailored to teaching poetry appreciation and composition to children, adults, and the elderly. Koch had a brush with the infamous anti-art affinity group Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers in early January 1968. During a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church, a member of the group walked in and pointed a handgun at the podium, shouting "Koch!" before firing one blank round. The poet regained his composure and said to the "shooter," "Grow up." Koch wrote hundreds of avant-garde plays over the course of his 50 year career, highlighted by drama collections like 1000 Avant-Garde Plays (1988), which only contains 116 plays, many of them only one scene or a few minutes in length. His prose work is highlighted by The Red Robins (1975), a sprawling novel about a group of fighter pilots flying for personal freedom under the leadership of Santa Claus. He also published a book of short stories, Hotel Lambosa (1988), loosely based on and inspired by his world travels. He also produced a libretto, and several of his poems have been set to music by composers. Koch taught poetry at Columbia University, where his classes were popular. His wild humor and intense teaching style, often punctuated by unusual physicality (standing on a table to shout lines by Walt Whitman) and outbursts of vocal performance often drawn from Italian opera, drew non-English majors and alumni. Some of the spirit of these lectures is contained in his final book on poetry education, Making Your Own Days (1998). His students included poets Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, Alan Feldman, David Lehman, Jordan Davis, Jessy Randall, David Baratier, Loren Goodman, and Carson Cistulli. His poems were translated in German by the poet Nicolas Born in 1973 for the renowned "red-frame-series" of the Rowohlt Verlag. Janice Koch died in 1981. Koch married Karen Culler in 1994. He died from a year-long battle with leukemia in 2002. Writing [ edit | edit source ] Koch was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music. Koch asked in his poem "Fresh Air" (1956) why poets were writing about dull subjects with dull forms. Modern poetry was solemn, boring, and uneventful. Koch described poems “Written by the men with their eyes on the myth / And the missus and the midterms…” He attacked the idea that poetry should be in any way stale. Koch wrote of how: Though not against T.S. Eliot, Koch opposed the idea that in order to write poetry one had to be depressed or think that the world is a terrible place. [2] His ideas were developed with close friends Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, along with painters Jane Freilicher and Larry Rivers, among others. He once remarked that “Maybe you can almost characterize the poetry of the New York School as having as one of its main subjects the fullness and richness of life and the richness of possibility and excitement and happiness.” In his poem The Art of Poetry (1975) Koch offered guidelines to writing good poetry. Among his 10 suggestions are “1) Is it astonishing?” and “10) Would I be happy to go to Heaven with this pinned on to my angelic jacket as an entrance show? Oh would I?” Koch once remarked that “Children have a natural talent for writing poetry and anyone who teaches them should know that.” In his poems: He mixed word usage with various levels of imagery; He set 2 contrasting tones next to each other, simplicity and silliness at the same time; He spoke to everything, animate and inanimate objects; He used parody of other poets to express his own views, both serious and comic. Koch was labeled by some as just a comedic poet. He acknowledged this in an interview and offered his comments: I don’t think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical. The comic element is just something that it seems to me enables me to be lyrical in the same way – not to compare myself qualitatively to these great writers – but in the same way that it enables Byron to write his best poetry and certainly Aristophanes and certain others too. He gives a picture of this in “To Kidding Around,” where the joys of being a joker are proclaimed: Recognition [ edit | edit source ] While a student at Harvard, Koch won the prestigious Glascock Prize in 1948. Koch won the 1995 Bollingen Prize for One Train (1994) and On The Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected poems, 1950-1988 (1994), [3] and the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award for New Addresses (2000). He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. Publications [ edit | edit source ] Poetry [ edit | edit source ] Poems . New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Ko; or, A Season on Earth . New York: Grove, 1959. Permanently . New York: Tiber Press, 1960. Thank You, and other poems . New York: Grove, 1962. Poems from 1952 and 1953 (limited edition). Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1968. The Pleasures of Peace, and other poems . New York: Grove, 1969. When the Sun Tries to Go On . Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1969. Sleeping with Women (limited edition). Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1969. The Art of Love . New York: Random House, 1975. The Duplications . New York: Random House, 1977. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 . New York: Random House, 1979. Days and Nights . New York: Random House, 1982. Selected Poems, 1950-1982 . New York: Random House, 1985. On the Edge . New York: Viking, 1986. Seasons on Earth (includes Ko; or, A Season on Earth and The Duplications ). New York: Penguin, 1987. Selected Poems . Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1991. One Train: Poems . New York: Knopf. On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected poems, 1950-1988 . New York: Knopf, 1994. Straits: Poems . New York: Knopf, 1998. New Addresses: Poems . New York: Knopf, 2000. Sun Out: Selected poems, 1952-1954 . New York: Knopf, 2002. A Possible World . New York: Knopf, 2002. Plays [ edit | edit source ] Bertha, and other plays (includes Bertha, Pericles, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, The Construction of Boston, The Return of Yellowmay, The Revolt of the Giant Animals, The Building of Florence, Angelica, The Merry Stones, The Academic Murders, Easter, The Lost Feed, Mexico, Coil Supreme, The Gold Standard , and Guinevere; or, The Death of the Kangaroo ). New York: Grove, 1966. A Change of Hearts: Plays, films, and other dramatic works, 1951-1971 ( contains Bertha and Other Plays, A Change of Hearts, The Tinguely Machine Mystery; or, The Love Suicides at Kaluka, The Moon Balloon, E. Kology, Without Kinship, Youth, The Enchantment, and the film scripts Because, The Color Game, Mountains and Electricity, Sheep Harbor, Oval Gold, Moby Dick, L'École normale, The Cemetery, The Scotty Dog , and The Apple ). New York: Random House, 1973. One Thousand Avant-garde Plays (produced in New York, NY, 1987). New York: Knopf, 1988. The Gold Standard: A book of plays . New York: Knopf, 1996. Fiction [ edit | edit source ] Interlocking Lives (with Alex Katz). New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1970. The Red Robins . New York: Random House, 1975. Hotel Lambosa, and other stories , Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1993. Non-fiction [ edit | edit source ] Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching children to write poetry . New York: Chelsea House, 1970. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching great poetry to children . New York: Random House, 1973. I Never Told Anybody: Teaching poetry writing in a nursing home . New York: Random House, 1977 revised edition. New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1997. Edited [ edit | edit source ] Sleeping on the Wing: An anthology of modern poetry, with essays on reading and writing (edited with Kate Farrell). New York: Random House, 1981. Talking to the Sun: An illustrated anthology of poems for young people (edited with Kate Farrell). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Holt, 1985. Joseph Ceravolo, The Green Lake Is Awake: Selected poems (edited with others, & author of introduction). Minneaplois, MN: Coffee House Press, 1994. Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy the Poetry Foundation . [4] Theatre [ edit | edit source ] Koch collaborated with composer Ned Rorem on an opera, Bertha , which received its premier in 1971. His short play, George Washington Crossing the Delaware , was produced in 1962. Numerous others of his plays have been produced. [5] Little Red Riding Hood , produced in New York, 1953. Bertha , produced in New York, 1959; produced as an opera (music by Ned Rorem), 1971. Pericles , produced off-Broadway, 1960. The Election , produced in New York, 1960. George Washington Crossing the Delaware , produced off-Broadway, 1962. The Construction of Boston , produced off-Broadway, 1962; produced in Boston as an opera (music by Scott Wheeler), 1990-1991. Guinevere; or, The Death of the Kangaroo (also see below), produced in New York, 1964. The Tinguely Machine Mystery; or, The Love Suicides at Kaluka (also see below), produced in New York, NY, 1965. The Moon Balloon , produced in New York's Central Park, 1969. The Artist (opera; based on poem of the same title; music by Paul Reif), produced in New York, NY, 1972. A Little Light , produced in Amagansett, NY, 1972. The Gold Standard , produced in New York, NY, 1975. Rooster Redivivus , produced in Garnerville, NY, 1975. The Red Robins (based on novel of the same title; produced in New York, NY, 1978, Theatre Arts, 1979. The New Diana , produced in New York, NY, 1984. A Change of Hearts (opera), produced in New York, NY, 1985. Popeye among the Polar Bears , produced in New York, NY, 1986. (With composer Marcello Panni) The Banquet , produced in Bremen, Germany, 1998. Except where noted, information courtesy the Poetry Foundation . [4] Audio / video [ edit | edit source ] "The Pleasures of Peace" by Kenneth Koch. The Teaching and Writing of Poetry: An interview (with Lois Rosenthal; cassette). Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Voice, 1974. Kenneth Koch Visiting Poetics (cassette). Naropa Institute, 1979. Kenneth Koch: Reading his poems (cassette). New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, [1980?] Wishes, Lies, and Dreams (cassette). New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, 1987. Kenneth Koch (CD). New York: Academy of American Poets, 1994. Except where noted, information courtesy WorldCat . [6]