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In 1974, WBAI program director Marnie Mueller asked [[Charles Ruas]] to become director of arts programming. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Our Collection {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/keyword-search?search_api_views_fulltext=charles+ruas |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref>Thus the station, already at the forefront of the counterculture and anti-war protest, also became a platform for New York's avant-garde in theater, music, performance, art, and poetry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Our Collection {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/keyword-search?search_api_views_fulltext=WBAI |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref> When the downtown avant-garde opera ''A Letter to Queen Victoria'' by [[Philip Glass]] and [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]] opened at the Metropolitan Opera, the station was right there to tape excerpts in rehearsals for broadcast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Our Collection {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/keyword-search?search_api_views_fulltext=A+Letter+to+Queen+Victoria |access-date=November 4, 2023 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref>
[[Charles Ruas|Ruas]] initiated The Reading Experiment, a year-long series on [[Marguerite Young]]'s epic novel ''[[Miss MacIntosh, My Darling]]''. These readings were transformed into performances by [[Rob Wynne]], who scored them with a complex collage of sound effects, music, and opera. The participants included [[Anaïs Nin]], [[Marian Seldes]], [[Alice Playten]], [[H.M. Koutoukas]], [[Leo Lerman]], [[Michael Wager]], [[Novella Nelson]], [[Osceola Macarthy Adams]], [[Owen Dodson]], [[Wyatt Emory Cooper]], [[Michael Higgins (actor)|Michael Higgins]], [[Anne Fremantle]], [[Peggy Cass]], [[Ruth Ford (actress)|Ruth Ford]], [[Earle Hyman]] and Daisy Alden.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marguerite Young: Miss MacIntosh, My Darling |url=http://clocktower.org/series/marguerite-young-miss-macintosh-my-darling |work=clocktower.org |access-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref>
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>
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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>{{Cite web |title=St. Mark's Poetry Project: 1976 New Year's day (Parts 1 and 2 only) {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/iz1364 |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Clocktower - Radio |url=https://clocktower.org/series/historic-audio-from-the-archives-of-charles-ruas |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=clocktower.org}}</ref> The day the Vietnam War ended, poet [[Muriel Rukeyser]] came to the station to read her poem on peace.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The reading experiment: performing poets in support of WBAI (Episode 33 of 33, Part 1 of 2) {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc070933a |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref>
[[Charles Ruas|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>{{Cite web |title=Other Titles in this Series {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/
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>{{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> Other dramatists whose works were featured included [[Jean-Claude van Itallie]], Richard Scheckner, Andrei Serban, and Elizabeth Swados.<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>
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Each of the arts had weekly coverage. Courtney Callender's ''Getting Around'' covered the cultural scene. Moira Hodgson was the dance critic. The visual arts critics were John Perreault, [[Cindy Nemser]], Liza Baer, Joe Giordano, Judith Vivell, Kenneth Koch, and [[Les Levine]].<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>
[[Charles Ruas|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>
On alternate weeks, Oppenheimer presented the works of Barbara Holland, Ivan Arguelles, Ann Darr, Richard Howard, Karen Swenson, James Emanuel, Siv Cedering Fox, Nelson Canton, Victoria Sullivan, Samuel Menashe, Carol Hebald, Paul Zweig, Gregor Roy and Mary Jane Menuez.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Our Collection {{!}} Pacifica Radio Archives |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/keyword-search?search_api_views_fulltext=paul+oppenheimer |access-date=October 28, 2023 |website=www.pacificaradioarchives.org |language=en}}</ref> He also produced specials on the aesthetics of 20th century poets and the history of the sonnet with contemporary American examples.
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