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	Allen Ginsberg class, - Ginsberg, Allen A 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. Keywords: political poetry Downloads: 1,545 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class. - Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip 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. Keywords: New American Poetry; New York School; West Coast poetry; spiritualism and literature; beat movement; political poetry; protest poetry; Buddhism Downloads: 2,373 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class 3 - Ginsberg, Allen This is a class on Shakespeare's Tempest, taught by Allen Ginsberg, from August 20, 1980 at Naropa. At the outset, Ginsberg explains that instead of reading the whole play through, he will touch on important lines in each Act and scene and explore them deeply. In this recording he discusses Act III scenes 1 through 3 with various digressions and explications on Shakespeare's metaphores. This is class 3 of 4. Downloads: 188
	Allen Ginsberg class 1 - Ginsberg, Allen This is a class on Shakespeare's Tempest, taught by Allen Ginsberg, from August 18, 1980 at Naropa. At the outset, Ginsberg explains that instead of reading the whole play through, he will touch on important lines in each Act and scene and explore them deeply. In this recording he discusses Act I scene 1 and 2 with various digressions and explications on Shakespeare's metaphores, Aristotle's poetic and dramatic theories, Ezra Pound's four parts of poetry, and Ginsberg's own poetic influences fro... Downloads: 296
	Allen Ginsberg class on poetry. - Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne An 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. Keywords: New American Poetry; modernism; beat movement; consciousness and literature Downloads: 1,176 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Allen Ginsberg Class part 5 - Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg class on 20th Century Expansive Poetics. Ginsberg discusses reading poetry aloud. He gives techniques for a strong reading. A few students read Federico Garcia Lorca's "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter," partly in Spanish, but mostly the English translation. Ginsberg discusses elements of the piece, reports on the students' readings, and students discuss the translation. Downloads: 179
	Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake. - Ginsberg, Allen A 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." Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; visionary poetry; performance poetry Downloads: 11,008 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake. - Ginsberg, Allen A 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." Keywords: ... Downloads: 1,201
	Allen Ginsberg Class July 1981 - Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg class on Expansive Poetry. This class begins with AG talking about the change in writing as time and technology progressed with repsect to voyage writing and travel accounts. He reads from Carpenter's "The secret of time and satan" and then there is a digressive conversation about meditation and being mindful and the San Franscisco New School. Then the class reads Dunan's "The lightfoot hears you and the darkness begins" and there is talk about the Whitmanesque quality of the writ... Downloads: 109
	Allen Ginsberg Class part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen The first class in an Allen Ginsberg course on Expansive Poetics. Ginsberg opens the class with a brief history of the topics of courses he has taught in the past. He then explains his expectations for this course and the material he plans to cover in the sourcebook/anthology he is compiling. He then reads Geza Roheim's Children of the desert, Shelley's Hymn to intellectual beauty, Ode to the West Wind and the end of Adonais... Downloads: 335 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg Class part 3 - Ginsberg, Allen The third class in an Allen Ginsberg course on expansive poetics. Ginsberg begins the class with a discussion of Walt Whitman's Song of myself. This is follow-up from the previous class. He reads portions and discusses the evidence of Whitman's ego and then discusses negative capability. The class then turns to Fernando Pessoa, and poems including Salutation to Walt Whitman, Poem in a straight line, and Tobacco shop are read and discussed... Downloads: 274 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg Poetry class May 1986 - Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne Final discussion in an Allen Ginsberg class on poetry. Anne Waldman teaches jointly, they emphasize the way a poem is meant to be read as well as different possibilities for brainstorming as a group. Downloads: 63
	Allen Ginsberg Class 6 Expansive Poetics - Ginsberg, Allen Tape 6 of an 11 tape series of a class taught by Allen Ginsberg on Expansive Poetics. Ginsberg discusses the lives and writing of Anna Akhmatova and Sergey Yesenin. Downloads: 207 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics class 29 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institiute May 15, 1980. For the duration of the class Ginsberg discusses Saphhic meter using various poems to demonstrate the ancient form. This is class 29 of 33. Downloads: 167
	Father And Son - Louis and Allen Ginsberg - Pacifica Radio Archives Father and son - Louis and Allen Ginsberg. Recorded in Newark, New Jersey, 19 Jan. 1968. Description: The Ginsbergs read selections of their poetry. 2 recordings (60 min.)BB3433 Pacifica Radio Archives. Keywords: ginsberg; poetry; father; pacifica Downloads: 186
	Allen Ginsberg class on American vision. - Ginsberg, Allen Second 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.) Keywords: New American Poetry, beat movement, Buddhism, spirituality and literature Downloads: 200
	Allen Ginsberg workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference. - Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference. - Ginsberg, Allen An 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. Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; Buddhism; spirituality and literature Downloads: 1,954 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class on revising autobiographical poems. - Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Keywords: New American Poetry; modernist poetry; romantic poetry; autobiography; beat movement; objectivist Downloads: 1,201 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 10 - Ginsberg, Allen; Ginsberg, Allen The Tenth class on Basic Poetics by Allen Ginsberg. (The ninth class has no tape) To begin this class students sing the ballad...with guitar. Leads into a discussion of Basil Bunting and Quantitative Poetics. This is class 10 of 33. Downloads: 206
	Allen Ginsberg Class Spiritual Poetics, part 1 - Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg presents a class on "Spiritual Poetics." Ginsberg discusses the influence of haiku on the Beats and the relative merits of tape recorders and notebooks for writing poetry. He then reads and comments on selections from the Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams. (Continued on 74P003). This is part 1 of 3. Downloads: 238
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 17 - Ginsberg, Allen This is the 17th session of a class in basic poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at the Naropa Institute. In this class, Ginsberg reads and discusses a number of songs by Shakespeare. During the last part of the class the students recite spontaneous poems. This is class 17 of 33. Downloads: 189
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 19 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute March 27, 1980. Ginsberg begins discussing the prosody of Robert Creeley then segues into the bulk of the lecture centered around the poetry of the English Metaphysical poet John Donne. This is class 19 of 33. Downloads: 162
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 20 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institue April 3, 1980. Ginsberg begins by discussing the prosody of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos, reading #80 in full, then segues into the bulk of the lecture centered around the prosody of English poet Ben Jonson. This is class 20 of 33. Downloads: 166
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 21 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute April 17, 1980. Ginsberg begins the class by discussing and reading from George Herbert. He then reads a selection of Jack Kerouac's poetry finally ending by reading and discussing selections of James Shirley and Thomas Carey's poetry. This is class 21 of 33. Downloads: 129
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 22 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institure April 10, 1980. Ginsberg and class discuss and read from the works of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick. Ginsberg focuses mostly on the prosody of these to poet's work. This is class 22 of 33. Downloads: 119
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 23 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute, April 14, 1980. Ginsberg and class read and discuss the poetry of Hart Crane, George Herbert, Henry King and Dylan Thomas. Ginsberg also speaks extensively about the notions of condensation, vision and meter. This is class 23 of 33. Downloads: 212
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 26 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute April 28, 1980. The majority of the class is spent reading and discussing the work of the poets John Suckling and Andrew Marvell. The work of Anne Bradstreet, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crawshaw, Thomas Carew, and Richard Lovelace is also discussed. This is class 26 of 33. Downloads: 130
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, class 28 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute May 12, 1980. Ginsberg begins the class by speaking about the heroic couplet form. Ginsberg then segues into reading and discussing the poetry of John Dryden, Simon Wastell, Thomas Vaughn, Thomas Traherne, Edward Taylor and The Earl Of Rochester. This is class 28 of 33. Downloads: 120
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics class 30 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature course, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute May 18, 1980. Ginsberg begins the class by discussing Sapphic meter in Ancient Greek poetry. He then moves on to read various poet's take on the Greek form. Ginsberg ends the class with the students sharing their own sapphic poems. This is class 30 of 33. Downloads: 129
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics class 32 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg May 26, 1980. Ginsberg begins the class by singing poems by Sappho and songs by William Blake and Isaac Watts accompanied by harmonium. The rest of the class is devoted to Christopher Smart's poetry, specifically "Rejoice In The Lamb" and "Jubilate Agno." This is class 32 of 33. Downloads: 158
	Allen Ginsberg Class 11 Expansive Poetics - Ginsberg, Allen Tape 11 of an 11 tape series of Allen Ginsberg's class on Expansive Poetics. Subject matter includes background on such Russian writers as Kaysin Kuliev and Sergei Yesenin. Also included are readings of work by Gordon McVay, Vladimir Klebnikov, and Sergei Yesenin. Downloads: 117
	Allen Ginsberg class 2 August 1980 - Ginsberg, Allen A continuation of a class on Shakespeare's Tempest, Allen Ginsberg draws parallels between Gregory Corso and Shakespeare, reading verse by both authors. Later Allen goes deeper into the text of Act I of Shakespeare's Tempest. This is class 2 of 4. Downloads: 209
	Allen Ginsberg Class 5 Expansive Poetics - Ginsberg, Allen Tape 5 of an 11 tape series of a class taught by Allen Ginsberg on Expansive Poetics. Subject matter includes background on such movements as the Futurists, Acmeists, and Imaginists as well as readings of work by various artists including Osip Mandelstam, Jorge Ivanov, Nikolai Gumilev, William Carlos Williams, and Anna Akhmatova. Downloads: 129
	Allen Ginsberg class Spiritual Poetics part 2 - Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg presents a class on "Spiritual Poetics." Ginsberg discusses the influence of haiku on the Beats and the relative merits of tape recorders and notebooks for writing poetry. He then reads and comments on selections from the Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams. (Continued on 74P003). This is part 2 of 3. Downloads: 168
	Allen Ginsberg Class 4 Expansive Poetics - Ginsberg, Allen Tape 4 of an 11 Tape series of a class taught by Allen Ginsberg on Expansive Poetics. Subject matter includes background on the Futurists, Dadaists, and other literary movents as well as readings of work by such writers as Vladamir Klebnikov and Kurt Schwitters. Downloads: 273 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class on aboriginal poetics. - Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip Allen 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." Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; incantation; language and culture; preliterate culture; oral literature Downloads: 1,221 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure reading. - Ginsberg, Allen; McClure, Michael Second half of a reading with Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure, featuring Ginsberg songs "Guru Blues," and "Gospel Noble Truths," a few Ginsberg poems, and two poems by McClure. (Continued from 76p107.) Keywords: New American Poetry, beat movement, West Coast poetry, music and literature Downloads: 1,089 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 12 - Ginsberg, Allen A Basic Poetics Class with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa in 1980. This recording contains part of class 12 and 13 from Feb.21 and 25, 1980. In this class Ginsberg discusses and reads Elizabethan English Lyric. Works include The Passionate Shepherd by Marlowe and Ralegh's The Nymph's Reply, The Lie, and Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk; The Aged Lover Renounceth Love and Greensleeves. This is class 12 of 33. Downloads: 288
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics class 31 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute May 22, 1980. Ginsberg spends the class reading and discussing the work of various poets throughout the ages who have dealt with the Sapphic form, from the ancient Greeks to Ezra Pound. Included are a number of different translations of works by Catullus. Ginsberg also plays recordings of Ed Sanders reciting poems by Sappho and Blake... Downloads: 150
	Allen Ginsberg Workshop part 1 April 1981 - Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg subtitutes for a workshop class taught by Tom Pickard recorded April 1, 1981 at Naropa. In this class, Allen discusses poetic composition using Corso, Marshall,Spicer, Kerouac, Blake, Pound, Williams, Bunting and others as examples. Later, students present their work and Ginsberg gives critiques often discussing the methods of composition, structureing, and selection of vocabulary in poetry... Downloads: 118
	Allen Ginsberg class on spontaneous poetics. - Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip First 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. (Continues on 76p076.) Keyword: New American Poetry, beat movement, New York School, West Coast poetry, Buddhism, spiritualism and literature, political poetry, protest poetry Downloads: 322
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics class 33 - Ginsberg, Allen A literature class, "Basic Poetics," taught by Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute May 29, 1980. Ginsberg spends the majority of the class fielding questions from the class and discussing the practice of writing with regards to his own work and the work of his peers. Ginsberg ends the class by singing sections of Blake's "The Songs Of Innocence and of Experience." This is class 33 of 33. Downloads: 408 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class, Poetics IV, November, 1983. - Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Downloads: 1,221 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 18 - Ginsberg, Allen The 19 in a series of a baisic poetics class taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at Naropa. In this class he uses A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe to discuss cadence and description in poetry. Other poets discussed in this context are Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Louis Zukofsky, and William Carlos Williams whose essay on Alfred Steiglitz is read in class. He ends with a brief comment on Marianne Moore's use of Light Rhymes... Downloads: 161
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 3 - Ginsberg, Allen This is the 3rd session of a class in basic poetics taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1980 at the Naropa Institute. In this class, Ginsberg discusses H. Phelps Putnam, and reads Putnam's Hasbrook and the rose. He then reads and discusses Geoffrey Chaucer's Merciless beauty in conjunction with Ezra Pound's Cantos 81. After discussing alliteration and other aspects of verse, he reads and discusses Pound's translation of The sea-farer... Downloads: 224
	Allen Ginsberg class 4 August 1980 - Ginsberg, Allen This is a class on Shakespeare's Tempest, taught by Allen Ginsberg, from August 20, 1980 at Naropa. At the outset, Ginsberg explains that instead of reading the whole play through, he will touch on important lines in each Act and scene and explore them deeply. In this recording he discusses Act IV scenes 1 through 3 with various digressions and explications on Shakespeare's metaphores and quotes from Elizabethan poets, Calderon's La Vida Es Sueno and Henry King's image of a bubble... Downloads: 108
	Allen Ginsberg Class part 4 August 1981 - Ginsberg, Allen A class in an Allen Ginsberg course on expansive poetics. The class opens with Ginsberg talking about the painter/poet Marsden Hartley. Ginsberg reads Hartley's I admire my native city, Spring, Drama number one, and Window cleaner to nude mannequin. The class does a choral reading of Vachel Lindsay's The Congo and talks about Lindsay's life. Ginsberg reads William Carlos Williams' To Elsie and a section of The Clouds... Downloads: 134
	Allen Ginsberg Lecture part 1 October 1983 - Ginsberg, Allen Allen Ginsberg Class on Autobiographical Poetry. He has the students read their respective pieces that relate to autobigraphy and then he reads many sections of Reznikoff's autobiographical poetry. He mentions David Copes "Quiet Lives" and Joe Brainards's poem, "I Remember" as good resources for this style of writing. He also talks about Kerouac's book movie and methods for list making and fact organizing so that poem is a quick flash of images that have structured one's life... Downloads: 137
	Allen Ginsberg Lecture part 2 October 1983 - Ginsberg, Allen This is the second portion of a class on Autobiographical Poetry/Writing. The class begins with Allen Ginsberg (AG) talking about the upcoming protest at Rocky Flats and there is much discussion about logistics. The class then reads from Reznikoff's Volume I and students begin sharing their material. Intermitently during the student readins, Allen provides feedback and gives concrete examples from their respective works on how to condense and improve the immediacy of the writing... Downloads: 52