![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, June 1978. - McClure, Michael Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, June 1978. In his second class, McClure asks students to tell jokes and engage in conversation using the poetry deck they created in the first class. McClure then leads the students in a sonnet exercise, discussing the history of the sonnet in Italian and English. This is class 2 of 5. Downloads: 52 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Clark Coolidge and Michael McClure reading, July, 1977. - Coolidge, Clark Second half of a Michael McClure and Clark Coolidge reading. Coolidge concludes his reading of his poem, "American Ones." (Continued from 77P106) Downloads: 158 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure and Steven Taylor performance, June, 1999. - McClure, Michael; Taylor, Steven A Michael McClure and Steven Taylor performance. McClure reads from his book Huge Dreams and performs Zen poems with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. Downloads: 262 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Clark Coolidge and Michael McClure reading, July, 1977. - Coolidge, Clark; McClure, Michael First half of a Michael McClure and Clark Coolidge reading. McClure reads a selection of Beat poems. Coolidge begins reading a long poem, about an hour in length, entitled "American ones." (Continues on 77P107) Downloads: 283 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg class, Card games, June, 1976. - Ginsberg, Allen; McClure, Michael A "Visiting poetics" class by Michael McClure in June, 1976. McClure teaches "word deck exercises" and gives the class an assignment involving William Blake's song "The tyger." A class discussion about the exercises follows. Downloads: 213 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure Poetry Workshop class 4 July 1978 - McClure, Michael Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, July 1978. Michael McClure continues his series of workshops focusing on exercises that make use of decks of cards with words on them. In this class, McClure discusses his invented "beast language," relates a story about making a boxing poster of Jean Harlowe and Billy the Kid, and briefly discusses Rimbaud and Lorca before working with the word decks. This is class 4 of 5. Downloads: 12 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure reading, July, 1989. - McClure, Michael Second half of a reading with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Michael McClure with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. McClure reads "Action philosophy," "Where are the snows of Hollywood?," and other poems. (Continued from 89P162) Downloads: 1,625 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure reading - Part 2 - 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; West Coast poetry; beat movement; music and literature Downloads: 835 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure lecture about the origins of theater, July, 1989. - McClure, Michael First half of a Michael 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." (Continues on 89P134) Downloads: 257 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure lecture about the origins of theater, July, 1989. - McClure, Michael Second half of a Michael 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." (Continued from 89P133) Downloads: 248 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure Poetry Workshop class 1 June 1978 - McClure, Michael Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, June 1978. McClure introduces the students to a method of poetic composition called a "spider," involving dividing one hundred words basic to one's life, under the headings of the five senses. After describing the exercise, student s write their own spiders and discuss them. This is class 1 of 5. Downloads: 50 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure reading, July, 1989. - Ginsberg, Allen; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne First half of a reading with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Michael McClure with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. Ginsberg sings two songs and reads "Plutonium ode," "Guru blues," and other selections. Waldman's performance includes "Her night" and "De sueno al sueno." (Continued on 89P163) Downloads: 272 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure reading - Part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen; McClure, Michael First 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." (Continued on 76p108.) Keywords: New American Poetry; West Coast poetry; beat movement; music and literature Downloads: 5,161 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure Poetry Workshop class 3 July 1978 - McClure, Michael Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, July 1978. McClure begins by pointing to a language of crisis in a sonnet by Keats and by Shelley, discussing the "systemless system" of a two-year old girl and of poetry, and describing Keats' notion of negative capability. Students read exercises in which a deck of words provides the vocabulary of a poem, and McClure gives a new assignment, to put together a word deck that creates a biographical portrait... Downloads: 47 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Michael McClure Poetry Workshop class 5 July 1978 - McClure, Michael Michael McClure, Poetry Workshop, July 1978. McClure concludes his series of classes with exercises that use the word deck to create stories. In addition to asking the students to read and discuss each other's word deck stories, McClure discusses Byron's "Don Juan," Burroughs' cut-up method, Mallarme's poem "Throw of the dice," and warns that the word deck exercise is too simple to generate poetry by itself... Downloads: 64 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | International Open Mic #69 - Bob Marcacci International Open Mic reading from The Bookworm in Beijing, China. Readings of "Scratching the Beat Surface" by Michael McClure and "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth. Keywords: Poetry; Open Mic; Beijing; International Downloads: 91 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman class, Poet as shaman, part 10, July, 1979. - Waldman, Anne A class in a series by Anne Waldman, "Poet as Shaman," part 10. Class topics include Michael McClure's "Ghost Tantras," Buddhism in the Kerouac School, and Hugo Ball. Downloads: 259 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bernadette Mayer class. - Mayer, Bernadette A Bernadette Mayer class with readings from the works of Michael McClure, Michael Brownstein, and Jack Collom, discussions on Ted Berrigan, Shakespeare, Dante, Gregory Corso, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, John Milton, Anne Waldman, and Frank O'Hara. Mayer also covers some of her own work in this class. Keywords: New American Poetry; New York School Downloads: 292 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Interview with David Gitin Charles Amirkhanian and Eleanor Sully talk with David Gitin and his wife, Joyce, concerning the recently published first issue of Bricoleur Magazine, a volume of poetry edited by David Gitin. The first issue included poetry from Africa, as well as works by American poets and authors, including Michael McClure, Charles Amirkhanian, George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, and many others. Each of the Gitin's read examples of their poetry. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Poetry; David Gitin Downloads: 37 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robert Creeley lecture on poetry in motion. - Creeley, Robert A 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 Downloads: 1,073 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Celebrating camp / "This is these guy's gig" / Legal aid Yikes! A festival dedicated to b-movies is coming to Sacramento. Find out what you can expect to see from the producer and hosts of this year's Trash Film Orgy. We'll have sound clips from some of the worst! "This is these guy's gig" Allen Ginsberg once said these words to a camera-wielding man hoping to join a photo session with Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Michael McClure in what is now San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley... Keywords: Trash Film Orgy; jack Kerouac Alley; Legal Aid; KXJZ; Sacramento Public Radio Downloads: 258 Average rating: (0 review) |
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