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	Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg reading, including Howl - Brownstein, Michael; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne An Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Waldman reads "Fast Speaking Woman" and other poems. Ginsberg reads "Howl" in its entirety, and other poems. Keywords: New American Poetry; New York School; feminist poetry; beat movement; political poetry Downloads: 30,471 Average rating: (13 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: New American Poetry; beat movement; visionary poetry; performance poetry Downloads: 11,008 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Mei Mei Bersenbrugge, and Joanne Kyger reading, June, 2001. - Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei; Kyger, Joanne; Osman, Jena; Perelman, Bob First half of a poetry reading with Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Mei Mei Bersenbrugge, and Joanne Kyger. Osman reads from "Press scrutiny." Bersennbrugge reads from her book, Nest, and Perelman reads "Fake dream: the library," "Today's lament," "Ode to James Fennimore Cooper," and others. (Continues on 01P026) Downloads: 557
	Edwin Torres lecture, The limit is limitless, July, 2003. - Torres, Edwin First half of an Edwin Torres lecture that is as much poetic performance as intellectual talk. He weaves together three pieces, "The limit is limitless," "The impossible sentence," and "The popadology of an ambient language," to create an almost seamless meditation on the evolution of poetry through performance, interference as freedom, what we miss in language, other possibilities of perception, and the timelessness and importance of ambient sound... Downloads: 810
	William S. Burroughs lecture on public discourse. - Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen A 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. Keywords: beat generation, literature and the state, technology and literature, literature and society, protest literature Downloads: 6,492 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	A reading by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Diane diPrima - Part 2 - diPrima, Diane; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne Second half of a reading by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Diane diPrima. Some of the readings included are Ginsberg's "Stay Away from the White House," "Waldman's "Empty Speech" and diPrima reading from "Revolutionary Letters." (Continued from 74p008.) Downloads: 2,965 Average rating: (1 review)
	William Burroughs reading, Art now: A day of contemporary art, July, 1989. - Burroughs, William S. A William S. Burroughs reading compiled from a number of works. Burroughs covers topics from miracles and magic to the Titanic, narcotics, the supernatural and hospitals. Downloads: 2,006 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class, The history of poetry, part 20, June, 1975. - Ginsberg, Allen A snippet of material that may conclude a class on the history of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, from a class series during the summer of 1975. The recording includes three minutes and six seconds of Ginsberg talking about the morality of William Carlos Williams and the subject of poetry and peception. (Possibly continued from 75P021) Downloads: 2,012
	William S. Burroughs workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference - Part 1 - Burroughs, William S. First half of a workshop with William 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... Downloads: 8,667 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Don Byrd lecture, On poets and poetry, June, 1996. - Byrd, Don Don Byrd lectures on poetics. He states that poets are working with compost and that art is the management of desire. He looks at poetry in the context of the evolution of human culture, modernism, and postmodernism. At one point he stops so that the audience can appreciate the sound of a storm outside. Downloads: 599
	William Burroughs Loka interview. - Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne An 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. Keywords: beat generation, political poetry, activist poetry Downloads: 4,618 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Cecelia Vicuna performance, July, 2002. - Vicuna, Cecilia Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna performance at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Vicuna uses words in Spanish and English, a capella singing, non-verbal vocal sounds, and other sound effects in her performance concerning the significance of September 11th in Chilean history, among other topics. Downloads: 1,069
	William S. Burroughs class on writing sources, July, 1976. - Burroughs, William S. First half of a class with William S. Burroughs discussing various sources for writing, including dreams, voices (external and internal), and cut-up, giving examples from his own work. Burroughs emphasizes the importance of egolessness to the writer and presents his sources as a means to that end. In the course of the discussion, Burroughs airs many of his ideas about consciousness. There are questions and answers halfway through the session.(Continues on 76P021) Downloads: 2,358
	Robert Creeley lecture on John Weiners and his poems - Part 1 - Creeley, Robert First half of a lecture by Robert 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." (Continues on 86p017.) Keywords: New American Poetry, objectivist poetry, Black Mountain School, art in literature, music in literature, San Francisco Renaissance, modernism Downloads: 852 Average rating: (0 review)
	Anne Waldman lecture, Poetry and shamanism, July, 1987. - Waldman, Anne Second half of Anne Waldman's lecture on performance poetry and shamanism. Waldman plays examples of performance poetry. (Continued from 87P033) Downloads: 1,345
	William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing - Part 1 - Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne First half of a class by William 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. (Continues on 86p002.) Keywords: beat movement, magic and poetry, mysticism and literature, science and literature, consciousness and literature Downloads: 7,664 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	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)
	Harry Smith lecture on the rationality of namelessness. - Smith, Harry Harry Smith discusses Surrealism, liars and poetry, as he spends a good deal of the tape trying to find the poem he wants to read, parody of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Keywords: consciousness and literature; experimental writing; mysticism Downloads: 2,446 Average rating: (0 review)
	William S. Burroughs reading. - Burroughs, William S. William S. Burroughs reads from "The Place of Dead Roads" and "The Cat Inside." Keywords: beat movement, experimental writing Downloads: 4,127 Average rating: (0 review)
	Harry Smith Cajun music. - Smith, Harry A compilation of sounds by Harry Smith with chanting, street sounds, singing, poetry, blues, and rock. Includes the Fugs playing, "The Summer of Love," "The Modest Rose," and "Ciao Man." This tape is likely to include sounds made from a microphone hung out of Allen Ginsberg's New York Lower East Side apartment. Keywords: mysticism; consciousness Downloads: 4,637 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Jim Carroll reading at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. - Carroll, Jim A reading by Jim Carroll, includes musical perfomances with accompaniment by Steven Taylor, of the Fugs, at the Boulder Museum of Contempary Art (BMoCA). The performance includes Carroll's "Facts," "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain," "Train Surfing" and "People Who Died." Keywords: New American Poetry; political poetry; music and literature; performance poetry Downloads: 3,303 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Jack Kerouac and Russian Futurists, July, 1981. - Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Downloads: 1,004 Average rating: (1 review)
	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
	Clark Coolidge class, Art is material thinking, August, 1977. - Coolidge, Clark First half of a Clark Coolidge class. Coolidge discusses many quotes that inspired him, and discusses writers writing about their own work. The recording ends about twenty minutes into the class. Downloads: 995
	Harry Smith lecture, 5:00 pm comments, July, 1989. - Smith, Harry A very short excerpt of Harry Smith talking about slam dancing, fans and clocks, and pinhole cameras, Keywords: none Downloads: 1,717 Average rating: (1 review)
	Juliana Spahr lecture on Bernadette Mayer, June, 2000. - Spahr, Juliana Juliana Spahr presents a short lecture on Bernadette Mayer's sonnets. Spahr questions the use of traditional forms by women writers as a gesture of resistance and/or subversion. In the question and answer session, Spahr and the audience discuss possible uses of lyricism that might problematize conventional discourses of sexuality and gender. Downloads: 356
	Allen Ginsberg class on vividness and close observation in writing - Part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen First 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."(Continues on 86p306B.) Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; Buddhism; consciousness and literature Downloads: 3,756 Average rating: (1 review)
	William S. Burroughs class on creative reading , part 1. - Burroughs, William S. First half of a William 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. (Continues on 79p040.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature Downloads: 1,595
	Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs class, July, 1984. - Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Downloads: 4,960 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	William S. Burroughs class on creative reading - Part 1 - Burroughs, William S. First half of a William 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. (Continues on 79p040.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature Downloads: 2,386 Average rating: (0 review)
	William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing - Part 2 - Burroughs, William S.; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne 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... Downloads: 2,741 Average rating: (1 review)
	On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference, Sam Charters lecture, Jack and jazz, July, 1982. - Charters, Sam Sam 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." Downloads: 5,830 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Anne Waldman class, Word women, June, 1986. - Waldman, Anne First half of an Anne Waldman class about language and consciousness, with particular emphasis on the Navajo language and the work of Gertrude Stein. Waldman reads selections from Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer, Emily Dickinson, Stein, her own work, and others. (Continues on 86P037A) Downloads: 153
	Allen Ginsberg Basic Poetics, Class 16 - Ginsberg, Allen A continuation of a Basic Poetics Class taught by Allen Ginsbergin 1980 at Naropa. In this class Ginsberg covers William Shakespeare's Sonnets. Topics include reading the sonnets as a novel of a love triangle between Shakespear, a young man, and the Dark Lady. Some works discussed and read include Sonnets 20 (the key to the sonnets), 18, 29, 33, 57 (the S and M sonnet), 64, 65, 73, 94, 116, 129, 144, 147, 152, and 153... Downloads: 200
	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)
	William S. Burroughs lecture - Part 1 - Burroughs, William S. First half of a lecture 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... Downloads: 3,915 Average rating: (0 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class on Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth - Part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen First 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." (Continues on 76p072.) Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; political poetry; transcendental poetry Downloads: 971 Average rating: (1 review)
	William S. Burroughs lecture - Part 2 - Burroughs, William S. Second half of a lecture 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... Downloads: 2,640 Average rating: (0 review)
	Diane diPrima, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman reading, July, 1994. - diPrima, Diane; Ginsberg, Allen; Waldman, Anne First half of a performance with Naropa faculty members Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane DiPrima, Michael Ondaatje, and Eileen Myles performing songs, poetry, and prose at the Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Selections include Ginsberg's "End and prayer blues," Waldman's "Jack Kerouac dream" and "Litany against AIDS," diPrima's "Neighborhood" and "I fail as a dharma teacher" Ondaatje's "Brother thief" and excerpts from his book The English Patient, and Myles's "Robin," as well as many other... Downloads: 266
	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 Class on American Vision, Part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing the convergence of Walt Whitman and William Blake, negative capability, meditation and clear seeing. Click for second half of Ginsberg's class. Downloads: 1,216
	Amiri Baraka lecture, Razor, June, 2004. - Baraka, Amiri An Amiri Baraka lecture, discussing the need for a cultural revolution now in the United States, and discussing a new forum for sharing creative work about, and building political power for, significant cultural and political change. Downloads: 865
	Bobbie Louise Hawkins lecture, The sounding word, July, 1989. - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise A Bobbie Louise Hawkins lecture, The sounding word. Hawkins discusses the writings of Werner Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle, Louis Zukofsky on defining poetry, Ysaye Barnwell's views of the effect of singing on the physical human body, Paul Valery, Michael Ondaatje from his book Coming Through Slaughter, and Charles Olson on verticality. Downloads: 201
	Gregory Bateson lecture on consciousness and psychopathology part 1 1971 - Bateson, Gregory 71U031 is part 1 of Gregory Bateson's 1971 lecture on consciousness and psychopathology. Downloads: 1,032 Average rating: (1 review)
	Gregory Bateson lecture on consciousness and psychopathology part 2 1971 - Bateson, Gregory 71U031 is part 2 of Gregory Bateson's 1971 lecture on consciousness and psychopathology. Downloads: 250
	Kerouac Conference holmes workshop part 1 1982 - Holmes, John Clellon John Holmes workshop topics include finding your own voice, education, discussion of poetic truth, and Kerouac's novels and Henry Miller, and Journal keeping[by Ann] John Clellon Holmes teaches a workshop on writing, focusing on fiction and prose. He discusses Kerouac's novels, including Visions of Cody, which Kerouac intended to be a more truthful account of the events that inspired On the road. Holmes also talks about how to find your own voice as a writer, poetic truth, and other aspects of w... Downloads: 206 Average rating: (0 review)
	Allen Ginsberg class on early 20th century French modernism. - Ginsberg, Allen Allen 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. Keywords: beat movement; protest poetry; literature and society; technology and literature Downloads: 2,109 Average rating: (1 review)
	William S. Burroughs class on creative reading - Burroughs, William S. William 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. Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature Downloads: 2,043 Average rating: (0 review)
	On the road: The Jack Kerouac conference, Ann Charters workshop, July, 1982. - Charters, Ann First 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. Downloads: 1,658 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Margaret Randall Workshop part 1 July 1990 - Randall, Margaret This is the third tape of a workshop with Margaret Randall. The students express their feelings and views regarding activism in Latin American countries. Margaret talks mainly about collective memory and the power of creation as writers. She mentions her time in Uruguay and Nicaraguan Sandanistas. Related tapes 90P063, 90P064, 90P066 Downloads: 79