Dorn’s lecture texts are transcriptions (supplied by PennSound, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing) of recordings of Edward Dorn's first and third lectures (March 1981), in the series of Charles Olson Memorial Lectures in Buffalo, NY. The Charles Olson Memorial Lectures were established by Robert Creeley at the English Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and were an annual event from 1979 to 1989.