![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger Class Visiting Poets class 2 July 1977 - Kyger, Joanne Joanne Kyger presents a class at Naropa Institute in which she reads the poetry of Simon Ortiz and Lewis MacAdams, listens to an interview done with Ortiz by MacAdams, and discusses Ortiz's ideas and poetics. This is tape 1 of 2. Downloads: 24 |
![[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) | Steven Taylor, Lisa Jarnot, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins reading, October, 1998. - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Jarnot, Lisa; Taylor, Steven; Wright, Laura A reading with Naropa faculty members Steven Taylor, Lisa Jarnot, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Steven Taylor reads recent work including "Perfect pleasure" and "Pajama poems for Robert Creeley." Lisa Jarnot reads "Ode," "Song of the chinchilla," and other poems. Bobbie Louise Hawkins reads a piece called "All the livelong day." Downloads: 102 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Faculty Reading with Hunt Mullen Alcalay Downloads: 13 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Eileen Myles lecture, Friendship: the force of community in poetry and prose, June, 2000. - Myles, Eileen An Eileen Myles lecture, "Friendship: the force of community in poetry and prose." Myles discusses the role of friendship and poetry in bringing one's inner world, which she likens to the world of her early friendships with women, to the outer world, which she relates to her early friendships with men. She discusses the growing laterality of the art world and emphasizes the defining importance of context. Downloads: 136 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ed Sanders, Robin Blaser, Eleni Sikelianos, Marcella Durand, Peter Warshall and Anne Waldman panel: Alternative communities and writing, June, 2003. - Blaser, Robin; Durand, Marcella; Sanders, Ed; Sikelianos, Eleni; Waldman, Anne; Warshall, Peter A panel with Eleni Sikelianos, Peter Warshall, Ed Sanders, Marcella Durand and Robin Blaser. The panelists discuss various ideas of community and the way in which writing affects society. Downloads: 8 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | In the pressure tank, Class 9 - Whalen, Philip Second half of Class 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. (Continued from 80p107.) Keywords: New American Poetry, West Coast poetry, Buddhism, American modernist poetry, symbolism Downloads: 75 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman workshop, June, 1982. - Waldman, Anne Anne Waldman leads a workshop on the sources, sounds, and structures of poetry. She reads extensively from an interview with William Carlos Williams and discusses his ideas and his relation to Jack Kerouac. She reads and discusses her own work, including "Two hearts," a sonnet modeled on Sir Philip Sidney, and her poem "Skin, meat, bones." Waldman also examines the writing and ideas of Frank O'Hara, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen and others... Downloads: 121 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Faculty Reading with Hunt, Mullen, Alcalay Downloads: 31 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 2, August 1977. - Whalen, Philip The second half of a class by Philip Whalen at Naropa Univesity from August 1977 about classic literature. Works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Ben Hur are discussed. Also presented are modernizations and the missing of genuine feeling in Shakespeare productions. (Continued from 77P027) Downloads: 92 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Steven Taylor, Andre Codrescu, Anne Waldman, Kathy Acker, and Bob Holman reading, July, 1991. - Acker, Kathy; Holman, Bob Second half of an evening of poetry, prose, and music with Naropa faculty members Steven Taylor, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman, Kathy Acker, and Bob Holman. Acker and Holman read from their works, including Holman's "For the birds," "Hey, what did I say," and "Censor not." (Continued from 91P158) Downloads: 63 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Heather Ackerberg, Brenda Coultas, Bobbi Louise Hawkins, and Joanne Kyger reading, June, 2004. - Ackerberg, Heather; Coultas, Brenda; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Kyger, Joanne First half of a cross-generational, all woman poetry reading at Naropa University's 2004 Summer Writing Program, including Joanne Kyger and Bobbie Louise-Hawkins reading unpublished poetry. Brenda Coultas reads ghost poems and stories, and Heather Ackerberg also contributes a number of selections. (Continues on 04P008) Downloads: 170 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg Class 19th Century Poetry pt. 2 - Allen Ginsberg Downloads: 91 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg Class 19th Century Poetry pt. 3 - Allen Ginsberg Downloads: 58 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg class, Literary history of the Beat generation, the 50's, part 8, April, 1981. - Ginsberg, Allen Literary 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. Downloads: 277 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Allen Ginsberg class, The history of poetry, part 15, June, 1975. - Ginsberg, Allen First half of a class on the history of poetry by Allen Ginsberg. from a series of classes during the summer of 1975. Ginsberg discusses the 19th century American poet, Walt Whitman, and a French poet of the same period, Arthur Rimbaud. He also discusses the poets' biographies and their innovative approaches to style and poetics, followed by a reading by Ginsberg of a selection of Whitman's and Rimbaud's work... Downloads: 351 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman class, I is another, July, 1988. - Waldman, Anne Second half of an Anne Waldman class exploring the ways and purposes, such as artistic or spiritual, to write from voices and perspectives other than one's own. Waldman discussed ideas for writing and performance. (Continued from 88P062) Downloads: 121 |
![[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) | Anne Waldman class, Poet as shaman, part 1, July, 1979. - Waldman, Anne A class in a series by Anne Waldman, "Poet as shaman," part 1. Students read and discuss dreams that they have recorded. Also included are discussions of Navajo songs, snake medicine songs, and an all night chant with mushrooms. (Series continues on 79P031) Downloads: 280 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman class, Poet as shaman, part 8, July, 1979. - Waldman, Anne A class in a series by Anne Waldman, "Poet as Shaman," part 4. Waldman discusses Louis Zukovsky's translations of Dante and defines candidates for shamanism. (Series continues on 79P038) Downloads: 156 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman workshop, Kerouac conference, June, 1982. - Waldman, Anne First half of an Anne Waldman workshop on writing. The class begins with a discussion about what led people to come to the Kerouac conference. Waldman talks about how she became involved with the Beats and came to Boulder, the founding of Naropa, and Kerouac's influence on the school. She reads and discusses part of an interview with William Carlos Williams, about writing poetry, and selections from Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and other poets... Downloads: 145 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anne Waldman workshop, Kerouac conference, June, 1982. - Waldman, Anne Second half of an Anne Waldman workshop on writing. The class begins with a discussion about what led people to come to the conference. Waldman talks about how she became involved with the Beats and came to Boulder, the founding of Naropa, and Kerouac's influence on the school. She reads and discusses part of an interview with William Carlos Williams, about writing poetry, and selections from Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and other poets... Downloads: 174 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Anselm Hollo, Lisa Jarnot, Simon Ortiz, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kristen Prevallet, and Andrew Schelling panel, July, 2001. - Aebi, Irene; Elmslie, Kenward; Lacy, Steve; Owen, Maureen; Patton, Julie; Taylor, Steven; Torres, Edwin; Waldman, Anne; Welish, Marjorie A panel with Anselm Hollo, Lisa Jarnot, Simon Ortiz, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kristen Prevallet, and Andrew Schelling. The panelists discuss investigative poetics -- poetics based on significant prior investigation into a particular topic, person, history, etc. -- their own personal projects, and giving suggestions to people pursuing investigative poetics for themselves. Downloads: 11 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bobbie Louise Hawkins reading, June, 2004. - Hawkins, Bobbie Louise Second half of a faculty reading at the 2004 Naropa Summer Writing Program, with Heather Ackerberg, Brenda Coultas, Joanne Kyger, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins. This is the conclusion of the event including just the end of Hawkins's final piece, which was cut off on the previous recording. (Continued from 04P008) Downloads: 133 |
![[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) | Rikki Ducornet, Elaine Equi, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Anne Waldman reading, July, 1999. - Ducornet, Rikki; Equi, Elaine; Waldman, Anne; Wilson, Peter Lamborn First half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty reading with Peter Lamborn Wilson, Elaine Equi, Rikki Ducornet, and Anne Waldman, who is accompanied by Claude Brown and Steven Taylor. Peter Lamborn Wilson reads from his book Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggles in the City and the World. Elaine Equi reads her poetry, including "Letter of recommendation," "Pink shutters," and several others. Rikki Ducornet reads a piece about the Marquis De Sade... Downloads: 191 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Rikki Ducornet, Elaine Equi, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Anne Waldman reading, July, 1999. - Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne Second half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty reading with Peter Lamborn Wilson, Elaine Equi, Rikki Ducornet, and Anne Waldman, who is accompanied by Claude Brown and Steven Taylor. Peter Lamborn Wilson reads from his book Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggles in the City and the World. Elaine Equi reads her poetry, including "Letter of recommendation," "Pink shutters," and several others... Downloads: 298 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Harryette Mullen lecture on language, June, 2002. - Mullen, Harryette A Harryette Mullen lecture from the 2002 Naropa Summer Writing Program. Mullen discusses her interest in dictionaries, language and its reflection of human social dynamics. She also reads from and discusses an interview with her by Daniel Kane. They discuss the creation of her book Muse and Drudge, and discuss questions of race and gender in writing. She also touches on issues of language, colonization, identity, and writing tools such as Oulipo exercises. Downloads: 329 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kenneth Koch class, May, 1979. - Koch, Kenneth A Kenneth Koch class at the Naropa Institute. This recording begins halfway through the class and consists primarily of Koch's answers to student questions. Koch discusses his teaching experience in public schools and at Columbia University, and his own process of writing and revision. Downloads: 248 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kenneth Koch lecture, June, 1979. - Koch, Kenneth A Kenneth Koch lecture at the Naropa Institute. Koch offers advice for young writers--digressing frequently to speak of his experience writing, teaching, and reading, as well as his friendships with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Downloads: 415 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kenneth Koch reading, June, 1981. - Koch, Kenneth A Kenneth Koch poetry reading during the 1981 Naropa Summer Writing Program. Koch reads "In bed," "With Janice," sections from his story "The green step," and others. Downloads: 598 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger, Nathaniel Mackey, William Corbett, and Anselm Hollo reading, Poetics: American mythology, July, 1993. - Collom, Jack; Corbett, William; Hollo, Anselm; Kyger, Joanne; Mackey, Nathaniel First half of a Naropa Institute faculty poetry reading, with Joanne Kyger, Anselm Hollo, Nathaniel Mackey, and Bill Corbett. (Continues on 93P054) Downloads: 163 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger, Nathaniel Mackey, William Corbett, and Anselm Hollo reading, Poetics: American mythology, July, 1993. - Hollo, Anselm Second half of a Naropa Institute faculty poetry reading, with Joanne Kyger, Anselm Hollo, Nathaniel Mackey, and Bill Corbett. Hollo finishes his reading with "West is left on the map," "Blue ceiling," and other poems. (Continued from 93P053) Downloads: 1,019 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos, Akila Oliver, and Anne Waldman, panel, Cultural activism and writing, June, 2003. - Kyger, Joanne; Oliver, Akilah; Sikelianos, Eleni; Waldman, Anne The opening panel of week three of the 2003 Naropa Summer Writing Program, featuring Eleni Sikelianos, Joanne Kyger, Akilah Oliver, and Anne Waldman discussing cultural activism and writing. Downloads: 90 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Art of poetry reading at the Naropa Institute. - Campbell, Duncan; diPrima, Diane; Ginsberg, Allen; Giorno, John; Trungpa Rinpoche, Chogyam; Waldman, Anne A lecture and reading with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane diPrima and John Giorno. The talks include Trungpa Rinpoche on Tibetan poetry, fundamental craziness, how to be a poet, and an exerpt of a Trungpa Rinpoche question and answer session. The readings include Trungpa Rinpoche's "Cynical Letter," Ginsberg's "Energy Vampire," Waldman's "Fast Speaking Woman," diPrima's "Ave," and Giorno's "Suicide Sutra." The event ends with a spontaneous talking poem by everyone... Downloads: 636 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Diane diPrima class on Ezra Pound. - diPrima, Diane Diane diPrima discusses Ezra Pound, reading from The Cantos and Personae. From "The Cantos," diPrima focuses on "Canto 13." From "Personae" she focuses on "Exile's Letter" and "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly." Also contains a student reading of "Canto 16." Keywords: New American Poetry, beat movement, imagist poetry, epic poetry, objectivist poetry Downloads: 456 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Diane diPrima workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference. - diPrima, Diane First half of a Diane diPrima workshop, with writing exercises read aloud and a discussion of inflection and pronouns in writing. This workshop took place during the 1982 Jack Kerouac Conference at the Naropa Institute. (Continues on 82p268B.) Keywords: New American Poetry, beat movement, goddess and literature, spirituality and literature Downloads: 214 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Lamborn Wilson class, Utopian poetics, part 1, July, 1993. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn First half of part 1, of a two-part class, by Peter Lamborn Wilson on utopian poetics. Wilson contrasts the authoritarian utopian tradition, from Plato to urban planning, with the anti- or non-authoritarian utopian tradition, beginning in paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies. A discussion of paleolithic and neolithic societies follows, including the role of linear time, cruelty, and calendars. Wilson then discusses the artist in her/his shamanic role, surviving as the role of the bard in Irish ... Downloads: 312 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Peter Lamborn Wilson class, Utopian poetics, part 2, July, 1993. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn Second half of part 2, of a two-part class, by Peter Lamborn Wilson on utopian poetics. After discussing postmodernism and irony, a student reads an assignment--sparking a discussion of pornography, the commodification of sexuality, and the relative merits of censorship and book-burning. (Continued from 93P069) Downloads: 223 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 1, July, 1976. - Whalen, Philip A class by Philip Whalen in July, 1976. Whalen lectures on "the particular minute" thinking of Emily Dickinson. He also talks about two of his own poems, "Matchbox" and "Mind is simple, art is shapely." Part 1 of a two-part class. Part 2 is on 76P069-070. Downloads: 296 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 2, July, 1976. - Whalen, Philip Second half of a class by Philip Whalen during the summer of 1976 . Whalen reads and discusses the work of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Henry James and Henry David Thoreau. Whitman's preface to his book, Leaves of Grass, his essay "Democratic vistas" and sections from his book, Specimen Days, are used to assess the intersection of American political, economic, social and poetic potential and realities.(Continued from 76P069) Downloads: 321 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 4, August 1977. - Whalen, Philip First half of a Philip Whalen class on Igor Stravinsky. After spending the first part of the class talking about rowdy poetry readings, Whalen discusses Stravinsky's ideas about time, order, and the creative process, then looks at how they apply to writing poetry. Whalen also tells anecdotes from Stravinsky's life, and talks about the sources for his music. (Continues on 77P030) Downloads: 53 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 4, August 1977. - Whalen, Philip Second half of class by Philip Whalen on Igor Stravinsky. Whalen reads his own work, including "Metaphysical insomnia jazz" and "For Brother Antonitus," and sings several untitled songs. He ends by discussing the importance of participating in music as well as studying the music of others. (Continued from 77P029) Downloads: 166 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 5, August 1977. - Whalen, Philip First half of a Philip Whalen class on the history of little magazines, their rebirth and proliferation beginning in the late 1940's, and their importance as a way for writers to communicate. He talks about his experience of being published in a little magazine and reads and discusses many examples of poetry, interviews, and other material from them. Magazines discussed include The Little Magazine of America, The Little Review, Bruno's Bohemia, The Poetry Book Magazine, Gregory Corso's Cambridge... Downloads: 149 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philip Whalen class, part 8, August 1977. - Whalen, Philip Second half of a Philip Whalen class on the history of little magazines, their rebirth and proliferation beginning in the late 1940's, and their importance as a way for writers to communicate. He talks about his experience of being published in a little magazine and reads and discusses many examples of poetry, interviews, and other material from them. Magazines discussed include The Little Magazine of America, The Little Review, Bruno's Bohemia, The Poetry Book Magazine, Gregory Corso's Cambridg... Downloads: 115 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robing Blaser, Bobbi Loiuse Hawkins, Eileen Myles, and Akila Oliver reading, June 2001. - Blaser, Robin; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Myles, Eileen; Oliver, Akilah; Schelling, Andrew; Tejada, Roberto First half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty reading, featuring poetry by Roberto Tejado and Robin Blaser, prose by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and poetry and prose by Eileen Myles. (Continued on 01P055) Downloads: 264 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robin Blaser reading, June, 2001. - Blaser, Robin Second half of a Naropa Summer Writing Program faculty reading, with Robin Blaser reading "Pentimento." (Continued from 01P056) Downloads: 115 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Andrew Schelling, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Peter Warshall, and Joanne Kyger panel, Dharma and eco-poetics, June, 1996. - Kyger, Joanne; Schelling, Andrew; Warshall, Peter; Wilson, Peter Lamborn First half of a panel on Dharma and eco-poetics, chaired by Andrew Schelling at Naropa's Summer Writing program, with Joanne Kyger, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Peter Warshall. Schelling asks the panel to look at strategies for writers interested in environmental issues. Wilson and Warshall talk about the politics of environmentalism. Kyger points out that ecology begins at home with a "Zen awareness" of the household... Downloads: 254 |
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