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When [[William Burroughs]] returned to the United States from Tangier, Ruas invited him to present a retrospective of all his works.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wave Farm {{!}} Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas: William S. Burroughs: The Making of Naked Lunch |url=https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/qfhv40 |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=wavefarm.org}}</ref> The series consisted of four programs, beginning with ''Junkie'' and followed by ''The Yage Letters'', read by Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg, ''The Last Words of Dutch Schultz'', and, finally, ''Naked Lunch''. Bill Kortum oversaw this series as well as retrospectives of the works of [[Jerzy Kosinski]] and [[Donald Barthelme]], co-produced with Judith Sherman, the station's music director.<ref>{{Cite book |last=WBAI Radio (New York |first=N. Y. ) |url=http://archive.org/details/wbaifoliomay76wbairich |title=WBAI folio |date=1976 |publisher=New York : WBAI |others=Pacifica Radio Archives}}</ref>
A semester of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poetry seminar held at the [[Naropa University|Naropa Institute]] in Colorado was presented by Ruas, and for many years the station covered the annual New Year's Eve celebratory poetry marathon at St. Mark's Church.<ref>{{
Ruas inaugurated the Audio Experimental Theater, a series presenting the works of avant-garde artists: [[Meredith Monk]], [[Yvonne Rainer]], [[Ed Bowes]], Michael Newman, Joan Schwartz, Benjamin Folkman, [[Vito Acconci]], [[Charles Ludlam|Charles Ludlum]], Jacques Levy, [[Willoughby Sharp]], [[John Cage]], Robert Wilson, [[Philip Glass]], Richard Foreman, and Joan Jonas.<ref>{{
In drama, the station defended [[Tennessee Williams]] against his critics during the last years of his life by covering his ''Memoirs'' and broadcasting a production of ''Two-Character Play''.<ref>{{
Ruas initiated interview programs featuring nonfiction writers discussing their fields of expertise—Buckminster Fuller, Thor Heyerdahl, Ed Sanders, Jonathan Kozol and Nigel Nicholson.<ref>{{
Each of the arts had weekly coverage.
Ruas invited poet [[Susan Howe]] and CCNY Literature professor Paul Oppenheimer<ref>{{Cite web |last=York |first=The City College of New |date=August 1, 2015 |title=Paul Oppenheimer |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/paul-oppenheimer |access-date=October 28, 2023 |website=The City College of New York |language=en-us}}</ref> to produce a weekly poetry program. Howe produced a weekly poetry program presenting the works of [[John Ashbery]], [[W. S. Merwin|W.S. Merwin]], [[Maureen Owen]], [[Charles Reznikoff]], Rebecca Wright, [[Ron Padgett]], [[Carter Ratcliff]], [[John Hollander]], [[Anne Waldman]], [[Helen Adam]], [[Audre Lorde]], Michael Brownstein, Mary Ferrari, and [[Muriel Rukeyser]]. She also produced specials featuring [[William Carlos Williams]], V. R. Lang, Jack Spicer, Louise Bogan, Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Williams, Harry Mathews, and James Laughlin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Howe-Pacifica.php|title=PennSound: Susan Howe - Pacifica|website=writing.upenn.edu}}</ref>
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From 1976 to 1979, poet [[John Giorno]] hosted ''The Poetry Experiment''<ref name="Rubery2011">{{cite book|author=Matthew Rubery|title=Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zearAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=May 9, 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-73333-8|pages=84–}}</ref> and later presented his eight-part series ''[[Dial-A-Poem]] Poets''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc268602-07|title=Dial-a-poem. | Pacifica Radio Archives|website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org}}</ref>
For a few years, WBAI became a cultural force as these programs were disseminated nationally through the Pacifica Network.<ref>{{
In 1977, there was a major internal crisis at WBAI which resulted in the loss of the physical space of the station. WBAI was located in a former church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. For many years, WBAI had believed it was exempt from New York City real estate taxes as an "educational" institution, but in March 1977 the City Tax Commission denied that status<ref>{{cite news |title=WBAI‐FM May Sell Its Studio |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/26/archives/wbaifm-may-sell-its-studio.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1977 |access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> and WBAI eventually sold the church (which it owned) to pay the back taxes. WBAI signed a new lease for the 19th floor (the former Caedmon Records office/studio) plus one office on another floor of an office building at 505 8th Avenue on the West Side of Manhattan.
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