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08/01/1974
Allen Ginsberg
Set 1"Energy Vampire"
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08/01/1974
Anne Waldman
Set 1"Fast Speaking Woman"
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08/01/1974
John Giorno
Set 1"Suicide Sutra"
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01/01/1975
William S. Burroughs
CommentAn interview with William S. Burroughs for Loka magazine with additional commentary by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. The interview covers topics such as government, the New Age movement, identity, biology, cloning, war, escapism, and gurus.
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07/23/1975
Meredith Monk
Set 1Our Lady of Late
CommentSolo-performance of "Our Lady of Late" at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
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08/09/1975
Allen Ginsberg
CommentGinsberg reads "Howl" in its entirety, and other poems.
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08/09/1975
Anne Waldman
CommentWaldman reads "Fast Speaking Woman" and other poems.
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06/10/1976
Robert Duncan
CommentLecture by Robert Duncan, entitled "Warp and woof." Discussion covers truth vs. fabrication, Homer, Ezra Pound, imagism and Plotinus, magic Neo-Platonism, Pound's usury, effects of personal experience on poetry, dictionaries, etymologies, Denise Levertov's fairy tale experience, revisions, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Ginsberg and aboriginal poets.
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06/16/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst part of a reading by Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure. Anne Waldman introduces the reading that includes Ginsberg performing "Howl," "A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," and "Supermarket in California." McClure reads "For the Death of 100 Whales," "Jaguar Skies," and "Dark Brown."
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06/16/1976
Michael McClure
CommentFirst part of a reading by Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure. Anne Waldman introduces the reading that includes Ginsberg performing "Howl," "A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," and "Supermarket in California." McClure reads "For the Death of 100 Whales," "Jaguar Skies," and "Dark Brown."
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06/28/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody. Included are discussions on Williams's poems: "Thursday," "To Elsie," "Horned Purple," and "The Term." This class also covers the importance of Williams to Robert Creeley and Williams's translations from Chinese.
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07/20/1976
William S. Burroughs
CommentLecture by William S. Burroughs including a tape recorded experiment called "Paranormal Voices," a cut-up experiment of Brion Gysin, experiments with Sommerville, messages from dreams, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and phrases of minimal context. Burroughs also discusses Shakespeare, computers, Homer, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Carl Jung. Lecture ends with a question and answer session.
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07/21/1976
Philip Whalen
CommentA class by Philip Whalen in Allen Ginsberg's "Spontaneous Poetics" series. Whalen discusses Ben Jonson, primitive peoples and poetries, and names.
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07/21/1976
Anne Waldman
CommentA class with Anne Waldman reading and discussing Frank O'Hara's poems, including: "Steps," "Ave Maria," and "In Memory of My Feelings."
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07/22/1976
William S. Burroughs
CommentEnd of a class with William S. Burroughs, finishing with a question and answer session with Burroughs responding to remarks about women, non-referential images, non-linear thinking, and telepathy.
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07/23/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg discusses "Aboriginal Poetics": the children's songs, migration songs, and funeral songs of the aboriginal population of Australia. He performs chants with aboriginal songsticks, including one written to protest the Vietnam War. The tape concludes with a reading and discussion of Vachel Lindsay's rhythmic poem "The Congo."
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08/02/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst half of a class with Allen Ginsberg reading and discussing the work of Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth, focusing on their later work. Ginsberg reads examples of Whitman's prose and poems, including "Sands at Seventy," Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," and examples of Wordsworth's "bad poetry." Ginsberg also reads and discusses Wordsworth's sonnets in favor of capital punishment, "Sonnets on the Punishment of Death."
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08/06/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on "Spontaneous Poetics." Discussion includes meditation and poetry with William Carlos Williams's "Thursday" as an example. Ginsberg discusses Indian poetry, Paris and Henri Micheaux, William Blake's "Tierza," Gertrude Stein, and political disillusionment. Allen Ginsberg discusses politics, attitude, anxiety, aggression, and nonviolent action. Ginsberg discusses Rainer Maria Rilke with Philip Whalen, reads an improvised poem, asks a student to do the same, then discusses the process. The tape ends with some talk about Naropa's money problems.
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08/06/1976
Philip Whalen
CommentAllen Ginsberg discusses politics, attitude, anxiety, aggression, and nonviolent action. Ginsberg discusses Rainer Maria Rilke with Philip Whalen, reads an improvised poem, asks a student to do the same, then discusses the process. The tape ends with some talk about Naropa's money problems.
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08/07/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentGinsberg reads "Ayer's rock," "December 1974," "Hospital window," "C'mon Jack," "Don't grow old" and "Father death blues."
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08/07/1976
William S. Burroughs
CommentBurroughs reads "Take Nirvana" and "Twilight's last gleaming," with the first appearance of Dr. Benway.
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08/07/1976
Anne Waldman
CommentWaldman reads "Musical garden," "Energy crisis," "Boulder poem" and "Shaman hisses."
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08/11/1976
Diane diPrima
Set 1"Tundra"
"For HD"
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08/??/1976
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg discusses politics, attitude, anxiety, aggression, and nonviolent action. Ginsberg discusses Rainer Maria Rilke with Philip Whalen, reads an improvised poem, asks a student to do the same, then discusses the process. The tape ends with some talk about Naropa's money problems.
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06/09/1977
Allen Ginsberg
CommentA class in Ed Sanders's "Investigative Poetics" series, led by Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg discusses the contemporary political situation and the way in which political situations do and have interacted with poetry, with specific reference to the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service.
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07/18/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentSecond half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class is a brief history of female writers in Greece with a focus on Sappho. Sappho's poems are read in Greek as well as in translation. Sappho's life and work are discussed.
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07/20/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class finishes the discussion of Sappho from her previous class (77P067-068), and then moves into the writer HD. The bulk of the class is about the history and writing of HD. Toward the end the class is introduced to Robert Graves's "The White Goddess" and to Gertrude Stein.
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07/20/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentSecond half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. This class is about Emily Dickinson. Her life and work are discusssed in great detail. Anne reads Dickinson's work and offers information on Dickinson's biography, poetry, and letters.
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07/25/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentSecond half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The entire class is Anne reading selections from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
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07/27/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The class consists of notes on Jane Austen and readings of her work, discussion of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, and a discussion of the goddess and her role in women's writings. Readings make up most of the class.
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08/01/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentA class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. The class is introduced to the life and work of Monique Wittig. She also finishes notes on Jane Austen. Toward the end of the lecture, Anne Waldman introduces the class to the life and work of Viginia Woolf, and there is a little more about HD (Hilda Doolittle).
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08/15/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentA class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977, focusing on the life and work of Gertrude Stein. The class includes student discussion with Waldman lecturing on Stein's life and style of writing, readings from Stein's books Lifting Belly, Three Lives, and Tender Buttons, and a brief introduction to the plays of Christopher Knowles.
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08/17/1977
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of the final class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977. Waldman continues the discussion about Gertrude Stein that began in the August 15th class. She reads excerpts from Stein's book Lifting Belly, "A piece of coffee" from Stein's book Tender Buttons, followed by Stein's comments on "A piece of coffee." Waldman also reads some of Clark Coolidge's work and compares it to that of Stein. The final part of the class is devoted to student presentations.
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07/26/1978
Amiri Baraka
CommentBaraka reads "Afro-American lyric," "Inside out," "I love music," "Malcolm remembered," "Against bourgeois art" and "Dope."
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07/26/1978
Diane diPrima
CommentdiPrima reads "Revolutionary letter # 31," "To the patriarchs (for Inez Garcia)," "Ave," and an excerpt from Loba.
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07/26/1978
Robert Duncan
CommentDuncan reads "The museum," a set of four poems entitled "An alternate life," "In the south," "Homecoming," "Supplication," "The quotidian" and "The turbine."
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06/19/1979
Robert Creeley
CommentA class by Robert Creeley on topics including Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein, Mac Low, and Ovid's constant and variant notion of public.
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07/01/1979
Allen Ginsberg
CommentA reading by Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Songs of Innocence includes: "The Shepherd," "The Echoing Green," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Blossom," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Little Boy Lost," "The Little Boy Found," "Laughing Song," and "Holy Thursday." Songs of Experience includes: "Nurse's Song," "The Sick Rose," "Ah Sunflower," "The Garden of Love," "London," "The Human Abstract," "To Tirzah" and "The Grey Monk."
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08/08/1979
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining. Burroughs also discusses exercises for increasing awareness, books as mental film, codes of conduct, heroes, and the film of Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch.
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08/10/1979
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs lectures on creative reading, including a discussion about various authors including Joseph Conrad, Denton Welch, Jane Bowles, Brion Gysin, and Julian Jaynes. Burroughs also addresses subjects such as art heroes, hemispheres of the brain, and the training of assasins.
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08/13/1979
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs lecture on creative reading. The lecture mentions a wide variety of authors, including Alistair Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgment in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel, The Soft Machine.
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07/23/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of class 1 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses the American language as a system distinct from English. He focuses on poems of Wallace Stevens, particularly "The Bed of Old John Zoeller" and also discusses H.L. Mencken, Lew Welch, and his own family history.
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07/25/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentSecond half of Class 1 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen continues his exploration of Wallace Stevens' life and work, focusing on Stevens' interaction with nature, and the unique qualities of nature.
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07/26/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentSecond half of Class 2 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens' short poems and the merits and shortcomings of literary biographies, focusing on Hart Crane, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Kerouac.
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07/28/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 3 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen first discusses a poem by Lew Welch, his methods, and the intricacies of lichen. Much of the remaining portion of the lecture is devoted to Hart Crane's "A Pastoral." Whalen also touches on the work of Alan Watts, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, Robert Graves, and Virginia Woolf.
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07/30/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentClass 4 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens' poem "Sunday Morning," other Stevens poems, and the work of other authors including Dante Gabriel Rosetti, John Milton, Shakespeare, and Hart Crane.
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08/01/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 5 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Lew Welch's poem "Wobbly Rock" with specific reference to letters to and from Welch and a lecture by Welch in "How I Work as a Poet."
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08/04/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 6 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens's poem "Le monocle de mon oncle." Whalen also discusses several other poems by Stevens, including "Sunday Morning", and the nature of Stevens's correspondence. (Continues on 80p102.) Keywords: New American Poetry, West Coast poetry, Buddhism, American modernist poetry, symbolism
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08/06/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentClass 7 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen."
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08/08/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentClass 8 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Wallace Stevens's poem "Academic Discourse at Havana." Specific attention is given to French poets--Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, Andre Gide, and others--who influenced Stevens.
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08/11/1980
William S. Burroughs
CommentA lecture by William S. Burroughs on public discourse, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Topics included are nuclear weapons, disarmament, the Equal Rights Amendment, aliens, dreams, function of the artist, mind-altering drugs, reincarnation, space travel, television, and economics.
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08/11/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentClass 9 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's life during the period in which "The Bridge" was composed, with an emphasis on the literary climate of the time.
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08/13/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 10 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge", continuing the discussion from the previous meeting of the class and focusing on the literary and historical context of the poem. He also looks at the work of Lew Welch.
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08/15/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentSecond half of Class 10 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge", continuing the discussion from the previous meeting of the class and focusing on the literary and historical context of the poem. He also looks at the work of Lew Welch.
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08/18/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen discusses Hart Crane's poem "The Broken Tower" and Lew Welch's "The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings", as well as Welch's prose and other topics.
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08/20/1980
Philip Whalen
CommentFirst half of Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen focuses on the similarities between the three poets discussed in the course: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Lew Welch and also discusses a variety of other topics.

Second half of Class 12 of "In the Pressure Tank" series held at Naropa Institute between July 23 and August 20, 1980. (The whole series is contained on 80P093-115.) Philip Whalen focuses on the similarities between the three poets discussed in the course: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Lew Welch and also discusses a variety of other topics.
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03/23/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing the work of William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and Alfred Korzybski. Topics include Kerouac's "Cities of the red night," Burroughs's recommended readings for the Beats, Ginsberg reading from "Junkie," Burroughs on drugs and society, and the founding of the study of semantics. Part 1 of a 20 part series
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03/26/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke. Ginsbergs discusses passages from the book, including teaheads (page 17), informers (page 47), fags (page 72), the Rio Grande Valley (page 105) and interzone prototypes (page 111). Part 2 of a 20 part series.
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03/30/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing letters from Neal Cassady and Ezra Pound, and Cassady's observations on Kerouac's book, "On the Road." Introduction also includes a discussion of Amiri Baraka's arrest and sentencing hearing and a chain poem about Ronald Reagan's attempted assasination. Part 3 of a 20 part series.
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04/02/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's ideas on the essentials of spontaneous prose, focusing on his writing process for On the Road. Ginsberg reads a number of passages from On the Road and discusses them. Part 4 of a 20 part series.
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04/06/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's book On the Road. Topics covered include the influence of Buddhism and Existentialism, mass political consciousness, controversy over Kerouac's writing about African-Americans, and masculine love in America. Part 5 of a 20 part series.
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04/09/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Jack Kerouac's On the Road, reading passages from the book and discussing the life and writing of Kerouac and his friends in the early fifties. Ginsberg discusses the stylistic connections between the writers of the Beat generation. He talks about Kerouac, Burroughs, William Carlos Williams, Lou Welch, Philip Whalen, Jamie deAngulo and Herbert Huncke. Part 6 of a 20 part series.
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04/13/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, focusing on William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg, Lou Welch, Philip Whalen, Jaime deAngulo and Herbert Huncke. Part 7 of a 20 part series.
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04/16/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentLiterary History of the Beat Generation, Class #8, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Topics covered include the Berkeley Renaissance and the work of Herbert Huncke, Philip Lamantia, John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, and Robert Creeley in the 1950's.
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04/27/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing a chronology of Jack Kerouac's books. He speaks at length about emptiness in Kerouac's writing. Ginsberg talks about Book of Dreams, San Francisco Blues, and Old Angel Midnight. Part 11 of a 20 part series.
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04/30/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentLiterary History of the Beat Generation, Class #12, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg lectures on Jack Kerouac's "Visions of Cody."
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05/04/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentLiterary History of the Beat Generation, Class #13, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Topics covered: Kerouac's sketching in "Book of Dreams" and "Visions of Cody."
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05/14/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing Kerouac's influences and Burroughs's "Naked Lunch." Part 16 of a 20 part series.
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05/18/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's discussing student sketches, the first manuscript of "Howl," and Burroughs's early work including The Yage Letters and "Roosevelt after inauguration." Part 17 of a 20 part series.
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05/21/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentLiterary History of the Beat Generation, Class #18, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Topic: Ginsberg's poetry, including "Reality Sandwiches," "Howl," Williams' influence, and Rexroth's advice.
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05/25/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, examining the first manuscript of "Howl," pausing to explain the influence of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West." Part 19 of a 20 part series.
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05/28/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's. This final class in the series covers Christopher Smart's poem "Rejoice in the lamb," also known as "Jubilate agno." Ginsberg discusses poems from Gregory Corso's book Happy Birthday of Death, including "How happy I used to be" and "Power," and he examines Velimir Khlebnikov's poem "Incantation by laughter." Part 20 of a 20 part series.
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05/??/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentLiterary History of the Beat Generation, Class #15, taught by Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg lectures again on Jack Kerouac's "Visions of Cody."
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06/30/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg lecture on expansive poetics, focusing on the influences of Walt Whitman. He discusses Surrealism, Albert Einstein, Whitman, Federico Garcia Lorca, Paul Klebnikov, Christopher Smart, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane and Edgar Allen Poe. Ginsberg reads Lorca's "Ode to Salvador Dali," Whitman's "Reversals," "Respondez" and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Klebnikov's "Menagerie," Smart's "Rejoice of the lamb," and Crane's "The river."
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07/07/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class discussing and reading from Russian Futurists. Topics include Sergei Esenin's book Confessions of a Hooligan, Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in trousers," Mayakovsky's biography and prison story, rebellion's relationship to Punk, utopian heroic Communism, linguistic exploration, and Lenin and Trotsky on Russia's $150 million loan.
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07/14/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Jack Kerouac and Russian Futurists, discussing Kerouac's method of revision, his five-cent notebooks, his book Old Angel Midnight, methods of composition, his 1956-1959 notebooks, James Joyce's Molly Bloom and Finnegan's Wake, Buddhist Shakespearean plays, Kerouac's On the Road scroll, Visions of Cody and Dharma Bums, and a short discussion of the Russian Futurists.
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08/11/1981
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg discusses early 20th century French modernism, focusing on the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and Jules Laforgue, and the paintings of Paul Cezanne and the Cubists.
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06/01/1982
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing vividness and close observation in writing, particularly the writers who do it, including Walt Whitman, haiku, Jack Kerouac, Reznikoff, Imagists and William Carlos Williams. Ends with Ginsberg reading a poem that was a partial model for "Howl."
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07/23/1982
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg workshop for On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute. Ginsberg discusses word choices, vividness, juxtaposition, sound, epics, the concept of "first thought, best thought" and Buddhism. Ginsberg discusses rhythm, poetry and rhyme. The workshop ends with a question and answer session.
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07/23/1982
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs comparing his works to those of Jack Kerouac, discussing their writing techniques. Burroughs provides biographical information on where the two met and their relationship. He also discusses what it means to be a writer and how many people are not writers even though they claim to be and have published work. Burroughs responds to questions about his relationship with Kerouac, dreams, and his own literary influences. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute.
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07/24/1982
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAn Allen Ginsberg workshop featuring student poetry readings. There is also a discussion about style and ordinary mind. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute.
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07/26/1982
Ann Charters
CommentFirst workshop of the Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Anne Charters (biographer and Kerouac Scholar) tells how Kerouac's books have influenced her and a generation. She goes into detail about his style and the influence he had on her as well as her works. Her main focus is on Kerouac's book On The Road and how the book should be seen as one of the most important American novels.
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07/26/1982
Sam Charters
CommentSam Charters lecture on Jack Kerouac and jazz at the Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The lecture includes discussions on jazz of the Beat generation, be-bop, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and a recording of Kerouac and Steve Allen reading "Mexico City blues."
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07/27/1982
Allen Ginsberg
CommentThe opening session of On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference sponsored by the Naropa Institute. Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and others make welcoming remarks and introduce films that were shown at the event.
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07/??/1982
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg talks about writing techniques. At the beginning of the workshop, he describes the Naropa custom of bowing to begin an event. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute.
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10/10/1983
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class on steps of revising autobiographical poems. The class includes readings of Hart Crane and Percy Shelley and discussions about Gregory Corso, Basil Bunting, and Ezra Pound. The class also includes discussions and reviews of student work.
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11/14/1983
Allen Ginsberg
CommentGinsberg class on Emily Dickinson and Gregory Corso. He talks about the recent invasion of Grenada by the United States, then improvises a poem about the invasion and discusses it. Ginsberg talks about the poetry of Gregory Corso and Emily Dickinson and the connection between the two. He reads Dickinson's "Before I got my eye put out" and "A bird came down to the walk."
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11/14/1983
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg lecture on poetry, reading and discussing the lyrics to some of Bob Dylan's songs, talking about how to arrange lines of poetry on a page, and how phrasing relates to ideas and breath. Ginsberg looks at his own poem, "Wichita vortex sutra," and touches on the work of William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, and Kurt Schwitters's Concrete poetry. Part of a course series by Ginsberg in fall 1983.
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11/??/1983
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg lecture on poetry, reading and discussing the lyrics to some of Bob Dylan's songs, talking about how to arrange lines of poetry on a page, and how phrasing relates to ideas and breath. Ginsberg looks at his own poem, "Wichita vortex sutra," and touches on the work of William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, and Kurt Schwitters's Concrete poetry. Part of a course series by Ginsberg in fall 1983.
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07/04/1984
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg class with William Burroughs. Ginsberg begins by reading from Burroughs's work, including his book Nova Express. Burroughs arrives and discusses writing techniques, including the idea that "Life is a cut up." He also talks about why he became a writer, Laurie Anderson, rolling drunks, biological warfare, weapons and retreats. The class learns some exercises for observing details while walking down the street.
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07/04/1984
William S. Burroughs
CommentAllen Ginsberg class with William Burroughs. Ginsberg begins by reading from Burroughs's work, including his book Nova Express. Burroughs arrives and discusses writing techniques, including the idea that "Life is a cut up." He also talks about why he became a writer, Laurie Anderson, rolling drunks, biological warfare, weapons and retreats. The class learns some exercises for observing details while walking down the street.
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07/09/1984
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley lecture on the origins, history, politics, and techniques of language poetry. He looks at how language poetry evolved out of earlier styles as well as its influence on contemporary poets. Topics include the ideas of Charles Bernstein, the work of Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, Ezra Pound, and many others, as well as the possibilities for using words without referents.
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07/18/1984
Philip Whalen
CommentPhilip Whalen discussing Alexander Pope's life, and the cultural context of his work. Whalen reads and discusses several works by Pope, including "The Heathen to His Departing Soul," "The Dying Christian to His Soul," "A Rondeau," "An Epistle to a Doctor ofDivinity...," and "The Dunciad."
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07/20/1984
Philip Whalen
CommentPhilip Whalen discussing 17th and 18th century English literature and worldview, focusing on the works of James Boswell, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope.
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07/23/1984
Amiri Baraka
CommentFirst half of an Amiri Baraka lecture on various subjects including poetry as the basis of all writing, William Shakespeare, dub poets, the United States in Grenada, Brahma, Mark Twain, slave writing, African syntax, and critical realism.

Second half of an Amiri Baraka lecture on various topics including structuralists and deconstructuralism, alienation, sorrow songs, Stevie Wonder, and content as principle.
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07/25/1984
Amiri Baraka
CommentFirst half of a class by Amiri Baraka on topics including Harlem, modernism, Langston Hughes, black literature, Civil War, abolition, reconstruction, Richard Wright, Black Arts Movement, the beat generation, and underground ideologies.
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07/28/1984
Amiri Baraka
CommentSecond half of a class by Amiri Baraka. He reads and discusses the book, Confirmation: Anthology of African-African Women, including Margaret Walker, Jane Cortez, Dub Poets and Mikey Smith.
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07/10/1985
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAn Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor performance. Waldman reads "Artemis," Mother's curse," "Thoughts of the dolphin," "Duality," and other poems. Ginsberg reads his poetry and sings William Blake poetry and other songs. Taylor provides musical accompaniment.
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07/10/1985
Anne Waldman
CommentAn Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor performance. Waldman reads "Artemis," Mother's curse," "Thoughts of the dolphin," "Duality," and other poems. Ginsberg reads his poetry and sings William Blake poetry and other songs. Taylor provides musical accompaniment.
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07/23/1985
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of an Anne Waldman lecture on the use of the cut-up technique in the work of William S. Burroughs, tracing it from its early development through his later work. She reads from Burroughs's writing and an interview with him in The Paris Review, plays his cut-up tapes, and talks about how Burroughs extended the idea of cut-ups beyond writing to a way of understanding the universe in magical and mystical terms.
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07/28/1985
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs reads from "The Place of Dead Roads" and "The Cat Inside."
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08/05/1985
Amiri Baraka
CommentFirst half of a class by Amiri Baraka on speech, rhythm, sound, and music. The discussion covers Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Amos Moore, John Cage, Robert Duncan, T.S. Eliot, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Max Roach, Allen Tate, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and German expressionism.

Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka on speech, rhythm, sound, and music. The class includes a
discussion of form over content, a tape of Miles Davis, and a performance by Poetic Justice including David Nelson and Pam
Donald.
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08/07/1985
Amiri Baraka
CommentFirst half of a class by Amiri Baraka on revolution and art. The discussion covers Miles Davis, the Poetry Orchestra Project, formalism, relationship of society to art and film, satire vs. social protest, Ed Dorn, black literature, Henry Jones, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mark Twain.
Second half of a class by Amiri Baraka on revolution and art. Subjects include Harlem Renaissance, American modernism, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, music composition, and a discussion of his murdered sister. Works by the class are also included in the discussion.
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08/09/1985
Amiri Baraka
CommentAmiri Baraka prepares a class for a musical performance. He creates a bass line, assigns students to categories of musical instruments, and tells them they will be playing against his recording of the bass line. He goes over basic rhythmic concepts. The tape ends abruptly.
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05/22/1986
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAn Allen Ginsberg class on poetry.with topics including the poetry of Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Hart Crane, and Charles Reznikoff, and the role of consciousness and the senses in modernism.
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06/23/1986
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. Creeley discusses dreams, the Earth Attractive, traditional forms, Charles Hartman's Free Verse, Robert Frost, Aristotle and tragedy, and restricted verse.
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06/25/1986
William S. Burroughs
CommentWilliam S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing. The discussion includes rules for wishing, the dogma of science, L. Ron Hubbard, The Big Lie, and sympathetic magic. The class also includes a question and answer session covering subjects such as memory, Henry Miller, dreams in writing, and defining the soul. Second half of a class by William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing. This half contains additional commentary by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. Included is a question and answer session that covers the space shuttle Challenger explosion, lucid dreaming, yoga, feminine energy, DNA, the Dalai Lama, and music. Waldman also discusses the ego, rituals, science and why questions, death, birth, mortality, and the bodhisattva.
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06/27/1986
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley discussing family relations, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson and syntax, Cole's Island, and Ginsberg's "Laughing Gas."
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06/30/1986
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley discussing John Weiners and his poems, "A Poem for Painters," "A Poem for the Insane," and "A Poem for Trapped Things," affect vs. effect, Charles Olson, San Francisco in 1956, his works "My Mother" and "An Anniversary of Death," William S. Burroughs, and "Dogtown."
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07/02/1986
Robert Creeley
CommentA lecture by Robert Creeley on poetry in motion. The lecture includes a discussion and reading of Basil Bunting, playing of jazz, and selections from Poetry in Motion by Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Kenward Elsmslie, Ed Sanders, Helen Adam, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Michael McClure. Keywords: New American Poetry, objectivist poetry, Black Mountain School, art in literature, music in literature, San Francisco Renaissance, modernism
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07/03/1986
Jim Carroll
CommentCarroll reads "A day at the races," "The poet and the vibrator," "The new ordeal," "With Van Gogh," "Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins," "For Elizabeth," "Fallen heroes" "For my generation" and "A child growing up with the sun."
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07/03/1986
Anne Waldman
CommentWaldman reads "Coup de grace," "Out there," "Eyes in all heads to be looked out of," "Ballade" (translation), "Sidney's complaint," "Queen" and "Bardo corridor," "Skin meat bones," "All hollow's eve" (with flute accompaniment), "Sisters," "A dialogue between a silicon child and a clematis flower" (with saxophone accompaniment), "Too bad trains," "The tundra and the waves," "You're like ice" (with drums and gourd accompaniment) and "Anarchy."
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07/04/1986
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley on the imagination of procedure with advice on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Robert Frost, and Louis Zukofsky. Also included in this lecture are readings from Pound, Whitman, and Creeley's own works. Allen Ginsberg adds to the lecture by posing a specific question to Creeley about Whitman and Charles Olson.
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06/25/1987
Allen Ginsberg
CommentSecond half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing the convergence of Walt Whitman and William Blake, negative capability, meditation and clear seeing. (First half of class currently not available.)
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07/13/1987
Allen Ginsberg
CommentA performance by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Steven Taylor. The recording includes: Ginsberg accompanied by Taylor performing "1948: A Western Ballad," Hawkins's "Middle-Aged Woman Stardust Rap," and Waldman accompanied by Taylor performing "Contra Chant." Also included is an untitled song performed by Taylor.
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07/01/1988
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg discusses the importance of and references in Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues. Plays significant portion of a reading Kerouac did, accompanied by a jazz pianist.
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07/05/1988
Andrei Codrescu
CommentAndrei Codrescu reading "Memogasoline"
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07/10/1988
Allen Ginsberg
CommentFirst half of a performance of music and poetry with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor sings "Who pays the piper calls the tune," "King cotton," and others. Waldman's performance includes "Artemis," "Mother's curse," and "Cut."
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07/10/1988
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of a performance of music and poetry with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor sings "Who pays the piper calls the tune," "King cotton," and others. Waldman's performance includes "Artemis," "Mother's curse," and "Cut."
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07/14/1988
Anne Waldman
CommentFirst half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on New American Poetry, including the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas and the role of the artist in society. Hawkins leads a performance exercise.

Second half of a class with Anne Waldman and Bobbie Louise Hawkins speaking on the theory and techniques of writing poetry, focusing on taking on other identities and voices as a writer. They read and discuss passages from a variety of writers including Gary Snyder, Robert Graves and Jerome Rothenberg. They discuss experimental writing techniques such as using the roots of words in order to generate new ideas. Hawkins leads a performance exercise. This half concludes the student performance exercises.
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07/25/1989
Allen Ginsberg
CommentGinsberg sings two songs and reads "Plutonium ode," "Guru blues," and other selections.
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07/25/1989
Michael McClure
CommentMcClure reads "Action philosophy," "Where are the snows of Hollywood?," and other poems.
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07/25/1989
Anne Waldman
CommentWaldman's performance includes "Her night" and "De sueno al sueno."
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07/31/1989
Michael McClure
CommentMichael McClure lecture about the origins of theater. He discusses the relationship between plays and poetry, his concept of "beast language" and his own plays, "The feast," "The beard" and "Josephine the mouse singer."
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07/12/1991
Allen Ginsberg
CommentIncluded in this reading are Ginsberg's "After the Big Parade" and the first reading of "Fall of America."
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07/12/1991
Robert Creeley
Set 1"So There"
"O Max"
"Life"
"Helsinki Window"
"The Seasons"
"Body."
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07/22/1991
Andrei Codrescu
CommentA lecture by Andrei Codrescu speaking about his experiences in Romania with National Public Radio during the Romanian revolution.
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06/30/1992
Allen Ginsberg
CommentSecond half of a performance with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, Paula Gunn Allen, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor opens singing several songs including "London" by William Blake, set to music by Tuli Kupferberg. Waldman reads excerpts from Iovis and Kaliyuga Blues. Paula Gunn Allen's performance includes "Never cry uncle," "Heyoka (Coyote tale)," "Koshkalaka (Ceremonial dyke)," "That's a switch or so she said," and "Quien es que anda (Who is it that's walking)." Ginsberg reads "After the big parade" and other poems and sings several songs accompanied by Steven Taylor, including "Heart failure blues" and William Blake's "The nurse's song."
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06/30/1992
Anne Waldman
CommentSecond half of a performance with Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, Paula Gunn Allen, and Allen Ginsberg. Taylor opens singing several songs including "London" by William Blake, set to music by Tuli Kupferberg. Waldman reads excerpts from Iovis and Kaliyuga Blues. Paula Gunn Allen's performance includes "Never cry uncle," "Heyoka (Coyote tale)," "Koshkalaka (Ceremonial dyke)," "That's a switch or so she said," and "Quien es que anda (Who is it that's walking)." Ginsberg reads "After the big parade" and other poems and sings several songs accompanied by Steven Taylor, including "Heart failure blues" and William Blake's "The nurse's song."
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07/20/1992
Allen Ginsberg
CommentPanel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener."
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07/20/1992
Anne Waldman
CommentPanel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener."
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07/20/1992
Amiri Baraka
CommentPanel on counter-poetics and opposition with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Lamborn Wilson. Waldman begins by reading an excerpt from Columbus's journal describing how easy it will be to exploit the people of the Americas. She proposes a program for incorporating political activism into poetics. The panelists make individual statements about counter-poetics and move to more open discussion. They propose definitions for the term and look at how to be oppositional in relation to racism, eurocentrism, and political oppression. The panel includes a reading by Peter Lamborn Wilson of his sermonette "Critique of the listener."
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07/25/1992
Allen Ginsberg
CommentGinsberg reads "Howl" and "Footnote to Howl."
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07/25/1992
Anne Waldman
CommentWaldman reads "May I speak thus" and other poems.
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07/25/1992
Amiri Baraka
CommentBaraka reads "The mind of the president," "The best kept secret," "Masked angel costume," "Changes Changing," "X," "Funk lore," "I am" and other poems.
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07/06/1994
Amiri Baraka
CommentA lecture by Amiri Baraka on the politics of poetics. The lecture ends with a question and answer period covering topics such as jism and jazz, grants in music, whores, hypocrisy, Bob Dylan, and Noam Chomsky.
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07/12/1995
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAllen Ginsberg reading of "Pup Tent," "Newt Gingrich," "Skeleton Key," and new words to "Amazing Grace"
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07/12/1995
Jim Carroll
Set 1"I am not Kurt Schwitters"
"Genius is not a generous thing"
"I want the Angel"
"A day at the races"
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07/12/1995
Anne Waldman
CommentAnne Waldman continues with the "I'm a woman and I have a job" joke and the levitating story, followed by a reading of "Simulacrum." Steven Taylor joins Anne and they play two Tibetan love songs.
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06/21/1996
Allen Ginsberg
CommentAnne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg lecture on dharma poetics, including discussions of Lewis Carroll and six impossible ideas before breakfast, poetry as Siddhi, the importance of writers making connections, writing from inside one's own death, Bodhissattva vows and human compassion, poetry as sacrament, the founding of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and various anecdotes. The lecture ends with Ginsberg reciting the Prajna Paramita sutra.
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06/21/1996
Anne Waldman
CommentAnne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg lecture on dharma poetics, including discussions of Lewis Carroll and six impossible ideas before breakfast, poetry as Siddhi, the importance of writers making connections, writing from inside one's own death, Bodhissattva vows and human compassion, poetry as sacrament, the founding of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and various anecdotes. The lecture ends with Ginsberg reciting the Prajna Paramita sutra.
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07/03/1996
Allen Ginsberg
CommentSecond half of an Allen Ginsberg lecture on English and American lyric poetry. Ginsberg reads Sir Walter Raleigh's "The lie," Christophr Marlowe's "The passionate shepherd to his love," Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi requiems, George Peel's "As when the rye reached to the chin" and "Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air, and Robert Southwell's "The burning babe."
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06/18/1997
Robert Creeley
CommentRobert Creeley lecture on eco-poetics. Creeley discusses Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marsden Hartley, Creeley's time in the American Field Service, existentialism, Jack Kerouac and the dignity of being a writer, Hart Crane, Robert Frost and Louis Zukofsky. Creeley recounts stories from his own life and talks about the ways in which Robinson influenced him. During the course of the lecture Creeley reads his own tribute to Robinson, "Old poems," as well as part of Robinson's "The man against the sky." He also reads and discusses the work of Hart Crane and other writers.
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11/16/1997
Anne Waldman
CommentAn Anselm Hollo, Andrew Schelling, Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor reading. Hollo, Schelling and Waldman read a variety of poetry with musical accompaniment from Steven Taylor.
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03/07/1998
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
CommentFerlinghetti reads with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor
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06/17/1999
Robert Creeley
Commentpanel discussion with Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley and Michael Ondaatje. The panelists discuss their personal histories, followed by comments on community, the 1965 poetry conference, the influences of books, homelessness in language and other topics.
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06/17/1999
Michael Ondaatje
CommentPanel discussion with Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley and Michael Ondaatje. The panelists discuss their personal histories, followed by comments on community, the 1965 poetry conference, the influences of books, homelessness in language and other topics.
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06/23/1999
Michael McClure
CommentMcClure reads from his book Huge Dreams and performs Zen poems with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor.
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06/28/2002
Andrei Codrescu
CommentLecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania. He discusses publishing with a focus on small presses run by writers. The lecture follows Codrescu's personal history, moving to New York in the 1960s where he encountered the mimeograph as a printing press. The talk continues with the end of the mimeograph era and the beginning of the perfect bound printing methods of the 1980s and the electronic printing technology of the 1990s.
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