![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | David Cope part 4 July 1980 - Cope, David; Corso, Gregory; Ginsberg, Allen David Cope class. Cope talks about imagist and objectivist poetry. He reads several of his poems including "Baseball" and "The Stars." He and Allen Ginsberg dialogue about some other poets: Reznikov, Hartley, etc. Gregory Corso tells a story about Trungpa Rinpoche.continues on 80P125. This is class 4 of 4. Downloads: 95 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Reading with Whalen Clausen Hollow part 1 July 1980 - Clausen, Andy; Hollo, Anselm; Whalen, Philip 80p182 and 80p181 contain parts 1 and 2, respectively, of a reading given on 7/23/80 by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Clausen, and Philip Whalen. 80p181 contains additional material: a reading given by Anselm Hollo on 7/30/80. [Note: Hollo appears to be the final reader at another event, although it is not clear which tape contains the rest of this event. This is part 1 of 2. Downloads: 99 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Reading with Whalen Clausen Hollow part 1 July 1980 - Clausen, Andy; Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip 80p182 and 80p181 contain parts 1 and 2, respectively, of a reading given on 7/23/80 by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Clausen, and Philip Whalen. 80p181 contains additional material: a reading given by Anselm Hollo on 7/30/80. [Note: Hollo appears to be the final reader at another event, although it is not clear which tape contains the rest of this event. This is part 2 of 2. Downloads: 33 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kerouac Conference holmes workshop part 4 1982 - Cope, David; Micheline, Jack; Orlovsky, Peter This is one of the evening readings of the Kerouac Conference. David Cope reads a selection of poems, they are from a recent book that is published as well as old and new work. Then Jack Micheline reads. I very powerful performance that combines sounds of jazz and his unique way of living. The Orlovsky reads one poem as a favor to the audience. The evening ends.[by Ann] An open reading with David Cope, Jack Micheline, and Peter Orlovsky in a mall in Boulder, Colorado... Downloads: 182 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Faculty reading with Kapil, Gladman part 1 June 2003 - Gladman, Renee; Kapil Rider, Bhanu Part one of a two part faculty reading during the Summer Writing Program at Naropa recorded June 19, 2003. Readers on this tape (tape one) are Bhanu Kapil Performing Water Damage, A Memoir, and Renee Gladman reading The Zone.This reading continues on 03P039 part 1 of 2. Downloads: 38 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | David Cope, part 4 July 1980 - David Cope David Cope talks about imagist and objectivist poetry. He reads several of his poems including "Baseball" and "The Stars". He and Allen Ginsberg dialogue about some other poets. Resnikov, Hartley, etc. Gergory Corso tells a story about Trungpa Rinpoche continues on 80P125. This class is part 4 of 4. Downloads: 43 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ed_Dorn_class_part_22_June_1977_77P004 - Ed Dorn Ed Dorn Keywords: Ed Dorn Downloads: 16 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | David Cope, part 3 July 1980 - David Cope A visiting professor class by David Cope. This part of the class includes Gregpry Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Andy Clausen. Corso explains his theory on the dawn of consciousness and Clausen Reads Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and "The Song of Myself" continued from 80P126. This is class 3 of 4. Keywords: David Cope Downloads: 61 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ed_Dorn_class_part_22_June_1977_77P004 - Ed Dorn Ed Dorn... Keywords: Ed Dorn Downloads: 14 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ed_Dorn_class_part_22_June_1977_77P004 - Ed Dorn This is the second class in a series taught by Ed Dorn in the summer of 1977. Disscussion and reading of "Gunslinger" Influences on "Gunslinger" Continued discussion and reading of "Gunslinger" Dorn's early experiences in the West. The Drive-away car life and being on the road, pre-Jack Kerouac. Writing "Gunslinger". This is part 2 of 2. Keywords: Ed Dorn Downloads: 58 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jim Carroll class, Poetics and music, June, 1986. - Carroll, Jim First half of a Jim Carroll class on poetry and music. Carroll discusses the differences and similarities between lyrics and poems. Included are excerpts from Carroll's work, including his songs "American Express" and "Shapeshifter." Carroll also discusses his own process in writing lyrics and songs. (Continues on 86P004) Downloads: 448 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jane Augustine class, Clarice Lispector, July, 1990. - Augustine, Jane First half of a Jane Augustine class. Augustine lectures on feminist studies, focusing on Clarise Lispector. Other topics include the avant-garde and the ego, the penis, and the French feminists. (Continues on 90P076) Downloads: 186 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Cage studio performance, January, 1979. - Cage, John A John Cage studio reading of "Mureau", "She's asleep", and "Six melodies for violin and keyboard." Downloads: 921 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Giorno and William S. Burroughs reading, July, 1976. - Giorno, John First half of a reading by John Giorno and William S. Burroughs at the Naropa Institute in July of 1976. Buddhist practitioner and poet, Giorno, reads two of his poems, "Drinking the blood of every woman's period," and "Shit, piss, blood, puss and brains." (Continues on 76P116) Downloads: 497 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Women and the Beats panel, June, 2000. - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Jones, Hettie; Kyger, Joanne; Vega, Janine Pommy A panel of four women writers from the Beat Generation, including Joanne Kyger, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Hettie Jones, and Janine Pommy Vega, discuss their own work and influences as well as the context and history of the Beat Generation, and their role within that context. Downloads: 266 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pierre Joris workshop, Poems for the millennium, part 4, July, 1996. - Joris, Pierre Part 4 of a four part workshop with Pierre Joris, with students reading assigned 24-hour journal poems. Discussions range from editing, line breaks and moving throughout the space-time continuum. (Continued from 96P042) Downloads: 126 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman, Marjorie Welish, Maureen Owen, Edwin Torres, Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi, Kenward Elmslie, Julie Patton, and Steven Taylor panel, July, 2001. - Aebi, Irene; Elmslie, Kenward; Lacy, Steve; Owen, Maureen; Patton, Julie; Taylor, Steven; Torres, Edwin; Waldman, Anne; Welish, Marjorie A panel on visual arts and performance chaired by Anne Waldman. Panelists Marjorie Welish, Maureen Owen, Edwin Torres, Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi, Kenward Elmslie, Julie Patton, and Steven Taylor make individual statements about the relationships between the creative arts and respond to questions from the audience. The panelists discuss their performance and collaboration work in writing, music, and other art forms... Downloads: 235 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jim Carroll class, Poetics and music, June, 1986. - Carroll, Jim First half of the second installment of Jim Carroll's class on poetry and music. Carroll plays recordings of his songs as well as songs from Phil Ochs. He also discusses his collaboration with Doors musician Ray Manzerick, conversations with Lou Reed, and how he approaches the difference between writing lyrics, music, and poetry. (Continues on 86P006) Downloads: 336 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | William S. Burroughs Sr. and John Giorno reading, August, 1979. - Burroughs, William S.; Giorno, John Second half of a William S. Burroughs, Sr. and William S. Burroughs, Jr. reading, with John Giorno. William S. Burroughs finishes his reading from The Gay Gun. Buddhist poet Giorno reads two energetic long poems "Eating the sky," and "Put your ear to stone and open your heart to the sky." The latter presentation is accompanied by a recording of Giorno reading the piece earlier, with the sound effect of a distorted, repeating echo... Downloads: 535 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Julie Patton performance, Boulder, an opera, July, 1998. - Patton, Julie A Julie Patton performance, "Boulder: an opera," a rock opera performance piece with spoken word and backbround music, performed at the Boulder opera house. Downloads: 168 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg class, The history of poetry, part 3, June, 1975 - Corso, Gregory; Ginsberg, Allen A class on the history of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, in a series of classes in the Summer of 1975. Gregory Corso helps teach the class. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Hood are discussed extensively. The class reads from Shelley, and Ginsberg recites Shelley's "Ode to the west wind." Downloads: 375 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jena Osman lecture, Cog-ignitions, June, 2001. - Osman, Jena Jena Osman lecture, "Cog-ignitions: Thinking about objects thinking." Osman discusses manually-generated and computer-generated procedural art, and objects that appear to be thinking such as puppets, computers, and poems. Downloads: 138 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos, Harryette Mullen, Steven Taylor, Renee Gladman panel, June, 2002. - Gladman, Renee; Kyger, Joanne; Mullen, Harryette; Sikelianos, Eleni; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne First half of a panel with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos, Harryette Mullen, Steven Taylor, and Renee Gladman. Waldman reads "Sister arise and vocalize: is there anyone under that chador?" Kyger discusses modernist women poets. Sikelianos reads "Yo, self / yo, maximus." Mullen discusses categories, forms, and perceptions. Taylor discusses Claude Levi-Strauss, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva... Downloads: 120 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Warshall, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Joanne Kyger, and Tom Raworth reading, June, 1999. - Bellamy, Dodie; Killian, Kevin; Kyger, Joanne; Raworth, Tom; Warshall, Peter A reading with Naropa faculty members Joanne Kyger, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Tom Raworth, and Peter Warshall. Many of the readings are dedicated to friends who have passed on, including Naropa teacher Rick Fields. Joanne Kyger reads from her history of the Buddhist teacher Naropa as well as a poem by Rick Fields. Dodie Bellamy reads from "The letters of Mina Harker." Kevin Killian reads his poetry including some poems written in response to the AIDS epidemic... Downloads: 48 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jack Collom and Sonia Sanchez reading, July, 2003. - Collom, Jack; Sanchez, Sonia Second half of a reading, with Jack Collom and Sonia Sanchez. Collom reads from his sonnets and Sanchez reads "Poem for some women," blues haiku, and "Middle passage." (Continued from 03P091) Downloads: 225 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | William S. Burroughs Sr. and William S. Burroughs Jr. reading, August, 1979. - Burroughs Jr. , William S.; Burroughs, William S. A William S. Burroughs, Sr. and William S. Burroughs, Jr. reading. The reading displays a contrast between William S. Burroughs Jr.'s writings and the writings of his father, William S. Burroughs, Sr. William S. Burroughs Jr. reads a series of short poems and plays the harmonica, followed by William S. Burroughs Sr. reading from his then unpublished work, The Gay Gun. (Continues on 79P104) Downloads: 763 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Warshall, Sam Hamill, Janet Rodney, Joanne Kyger, and Andrew Schelling panel, June, 1995. - Hamill, Sam; Kyger, Joanne; Rodney, Janet; Schelling, Andrew; Warshall, Peter A panel on dharma and eco-poetics with Janet Rodney, Sam Hamill, Joanne Kyger, and Peter Warshall, chaired by Andrew Schelling. The panel discusses the information age; busy-ness and doing nothing; the ecology of paper production; nature, and conscientious objection to overpopulation and capitalism; English language nature writing; and the disconnection from nature in English language poetry. A question and answer period concludes the panel. Downloads: 103 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pierre Joris workshop, Poems for the millennium, part 3, July, 1996. - Joris, Pierre Part 3 of a four part workshop with Pierre Joris, with Joris and students discussing Stephane Mallarme's poem "Un coup de des" ("A throw of the dice"). Students read and discuss poems written in response to Mallarme's poem. (Continued from 96P041. Continues on 96P043) Downloads: 64 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Keith Abbott, Wang Ping, and Lorenzo Thomas reading, July, 1997. - Abbott, Keith; Ping, Wang; Thomas, Lorenzo Second half of a reading by Keith Abbot, Wang Ping, and Lorenzo Thomas. Thomas reads a selection of work for approximately twenty minutes, including "Multicultural," "The mockingbirds," "For almost a year to the day," and "Tar baby." (Continued from 97P035) Downloads: 171 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Giorno, and William S. Burroughs reading, July, 1976. - Burroughs, William S. Second half of a reading by John Giorno and William S. Burroughs at the Naropa Institute in July of 1976. Burroughs reads a longer piece, "Tio Mate smiles" from The Wild Boys, as well as a few shorter pieces, including "The do-rights" from the Nova Express, "When did I stop wanting to be president?" and "From here to eternity." (Continued from 76P115) Downloads: 416 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joy Harjo lecture, Native American women writers, August, 1985. - Harjo, Joy Second half of a Joy Harjo lecture about Native American women writers. Harjo discusses seeking and appreciating the value of both Native and white cultures. The lecture ends with Harjo reading a poem by Roberta Hill Whiteman, "Lines for marking time." (Continued from 85P092) Downloads: 130 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pierre Joris workshop, Poems for the millennium, part 1, July, 1996. - Joris, Pierre Part 1 of a four part workshop with Pierre Joris, focusing on nomadic poetics, translation, "writing through," and finding one's voice. (Continues on 96p041) Downloads: 279 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger and Lorenzo Thomas reading, July, 1989. - Kyger, Joanne; Thomas, Lorenzo Joanne Kyger and Lorenzo Thomas readings. Kyger reads "Bolinas fog," "For the San Francisco Zen Center," "An Adonis springtime poem," "From the Jataka Tales," "Narcissus," " Take it o moon on the run," and others. Thomas reads "The leopard," "Cameo in sudden light," "Not gonna take it," "Chased passions," "House of red lights," and others. Downloads: 282 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Warshall lecture on water, June, 1995. - Warshall, Peter Peter Warshall lectures on water. Warshall narrates the scientific story of the origin of water on Earth, in four stages. He then describes the molecular structure of water and how it illustrates love: covalent bonds illustrate the strong bond of equal sharing; ionic bonds illustrate the weaker bond of relatedness and openness; and surface tension illustrates the principles of resiliency and light touch, receptivity and boundaries... Downloads: 184 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Warshall lecture, A Poetics of Natural Light, June, 1996. - Warshall, Peter Peter Warshall lectures on a poetics of natural light. Warshall explains light and sight from a biologist's standpoint, showing how they are part of a several billion year process of evolution. He explicates the connections between survival and elements of light perception, including contrast, concealment, and color. Warshall sees art as a development of the uses of these elements in the animal kingdom, and relates the artist's and poet's search for beauty to the naturalist's. Downloads: 231 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joy Harjo lecture, Native American women writers, August, 1985 - Harjo, Joy First half of a Joy Harjo lecture on Native American women writers. She talks about Native culture, history, oppression, and worldview, and also looks at the riches to be found in Euro-American culture. Harjo reads and discusses works by Native women, including "Why stone does not sing by itself," by Anita Endrezze-danielson, "Story from bear country," by Leslie Marmon Silko, "The strange people," by Louise Erdrich, "The dust will settle," by Luci Tapahonso, "At Mexican Springs," by Laura Tohe, ... Downloads: 229 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joan Retallack and Lorenzo Thomas reading, July, 2002. - Retallack, Joan; Thomas, Lorenzo Second half of a reading, with Joan Retallack and Lorenzo Thomas. Retallack reads a long poem entitled, "Lost briefcase conjecture," and Thomas reads "Whale song," "Equinox," and others. (Continued from 02P084) Downloads: 191 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pierre Joris workshop, Poems for the millennium, part 2, July, 1996. - Joris, Pierre Part 2 of a four part workshop with Pierre Joris, focusing on the notion of negative capability, the paradox of relativity and the spiritual path of poetry. (Continued from 96P040. Continues on 96P042) Downloads: 93 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jane Augustine class, Imagism, objectivism, and feminism, July, 1987. - Augustine, Jane A Jane Augustine class discussing the connections between imagism and objectivism, HD's life, and the similarities between HD and Lorine Niedecker's writing. Downloads: 176 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jack Collom, Harryette Mullen, Lorenzo Thomas reading, July, 2000. - Collom, Jack; Mullen, Harryette; Thomas, Lorenzo Second half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program reading, with Jack Collom, Harryette Mullen, and Lorenzo Thomas. Collom reads "Look at the pretty cows, Betty." Mullen reads poems from his book Sleeping with the Dictionary, and Thomas reads "The working days," "Art for nothing," and "Back in the day." (Continued from 00P085) Downloads: 236 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jerome Rothenberg class, Shamanism, part 1, August, 1985. - Rothenberg, Jerome A Jerome Rothenberg class about shamanism. He discusses translation, the Catholic church, and differences between Carlos Castaneda's book Don Juan and the actual practices of Yaqui shamanism. Rothenberg also discusses associations between the theater and rituals. Part 1 of a three part class series. Downloads: 312 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jim Carroll class, Poetics and music, June, 1986. - Carroll, Jim The second half of a Jim Carroll class on poetry and music. Carroll disusses jazz, blues, popular music, poetry and his own band. The first third of the tape includes questions and discussion about Allen Ginsberg. (Continued from 86P003) Downloads: 249 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger lecture, The life and work of Gary Snyder, July, 1990. - Kyger, Joanne; Snyder, Gary Second half of a Joanne Kyger class on Gary Snyder's work. She discusses his life, his interest in Zen, and the journals included in his book Earth Household. Part way through the class, Snyder appears in person. He and Kyger discuss mythology and literature. Snyder reads and discusses his work and Kyger reads some of her poetry. (Continued from 90P042) Downloads: 386 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jim Carroll class, Poetics and music, June, 1986. - Carroll, Jim Second half of the second installment of Jim Carroll's class on poetry and music. Carroll plays recordings of his songs and discusses his music, including a collaboration with Ray Manzerik of the Doors. The tape ends with a performance by the class. (Continued from 86P005) Downloads: 163 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jerome Rothenberg class, Shamanism, part 2, August, 1985. - Rothenberg, Jerome A Jerome Rothenberg class about shamans in Yanomamo society. He compares a film shown in a previous class to the commercial film The Emerald Forest and looks at how both films distort the realities of Yanomamo culture. He also discusses Yanomamo creation myths and other aspects of Yanomamo culture. Part 2 of a three part class series. Downloads: 250 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos, Harryette Mullen, Steven Taylor, Renee Gladman panel, June, 2002. - Gladman, Renee; Kyger, Joanne; Mullen, Harryette; Sikelianos, Eleni; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne Second half of a panel with Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos, Harryette Mullen, Steven Taylor, Renee Gladman. This section contains the remainder of the question and answer session. Topics discussed include gendered grammar and syntax, the feminization of America, the commodification of sex, and the patriarchy. (Continued from 02P031) Downloads: 202 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman reading, Crack in the world, Pieces of an hour, Date not available. - Waldman, Anne An Anne Waldman reading at Naropa University on an unknown date. Waldman reads "Crack in the world," and "Pieces of an hour." Downloads: 337 |
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