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	William S. Burroughs class on creative reading - Part 1 - Burroughs, William S. First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on creative reading. The lecture mentions a wide variety of authors, including Alistair Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgment in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel, The Soft Machine. (Continues on 79p044.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature, reality mapping Downloads: 5,508
	Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac part 1 June 1977 - Ginsberg, Allen; Ginsberg, Allen The first tape in a two part series which is a class taught by Allen Ginsberg. Subject matter includes the life and work of Jack Kerouac. This is part 1 of 2. Downloads: 1,812
	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: 4,475
	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: 17,725 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	William S. Burroughs class on creative reading - Part 2 - Burroughs, William S. Second half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on creative reading. The lecture mentions a wide variety of authors, including Alistair Crowley, Paul Bowles, and many others. The class also discusses science fiction, non-fiction, general semantics, scriptwriting, cloning, rotten ectoplasm, and judgment in cut-ups, as well as Burroughs's novel, The Soft Machine. (Continued from 79p043.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature, reality mapping Downloads: 2,845
	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: 7,430 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	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: 40,260 Average rating: (13 reviews)
	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: 910 Average rating: (1 review)
	Harry Smith lecture on Native American cosmos. - Smith, Harry Harry Smith describes two Native American ceremonies he witnessed in the early 1940's in the Pacific Northwest. Interspersed with his account of the ceremonies, he discusses tangentially various related topics, including Native American health before the European invasion, Native American sign language, the migration of symbols, misogyny in anthropological accounts of Native American peoples, creation myths, and cosmology. Keywords: spirituality and literature; mysticism Downloads: 5,173 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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: 5,823
	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: 10,856 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture, Woman in the wilderness, July, 1993. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn A Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on utopian communities in America, including a 17th century community of mystics founded by Johannes Kelpius and known as The Society of the Woman in the Wilderness. Wilson divides communities into two types: platonic (based on an authoritarian, usually Christian, ideology) and anti-platonic (based on autonomy and equality). He evaluates communities according to how they perceive nature and wilderness, putting his discussion in the context of the differences in out... Downloads: 1,658 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: 7,605 Average rating: (4 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: 3,621
	Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac part 2 June 1977 - Ginsberg, Allen Part two of a two part series in which Allen Ginsberg discusses the life and work of Jack Kerouac in relation to himself and other figures of the literary scene. Includes some readings from Kerouac's piece entitled, "Vanity of Duluoz." This is part 2 of 2. Downloads: 577
	Alexis Pate and Edwin Torres reading, July, 2003 - Pate, Alexs; Torres, Edwin First half of a reading with Alexis Pate and Edwin Torres. Pate reads from Multi-Culti. Torres reads and performs several pieces, including "Motor priest" and "Tempest." (Continues on 03P091) Downloads: 4,517
	Robert Creeley lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 1 - Creeley, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen First half of a lecture by Robert Creeley on the imagination of procedure with advice on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Robert Frost, and Louis Zukofsky. Also included in this lecture are readings from Pound, Whitman, and Creeley's own works. Allen Ginsberg adds to the lecture by posing a specific question to Creeley about Whitman and Charles Olson. (Continues on 86p022.) Keywords: New American Poetry, objectivist poetry, Black Mountain School, art ... Downloads: 1,546 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 10,382 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	A performance by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Steven Taylor - Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne A performance by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Steven Taylor. The recording includes: Ginsberg accompanied by Taylor performing "1948: A Western Ballad," Hawkins's "Middle-Aged Woman Stardust Rap," and Waldman accompanied by Taylor performing "Contra Chant." Also included is an untitled song performed by Taylor. Keywords: New American Poetry; Beat Movement; political poetry; Buddhism; performance poetry; Naropa performance Downloads: 6,102 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: 3,425
	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: 3,707 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 7,460 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	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: 6,518 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Peter Lamborn Wilson class on hermetic linguistics, July, 1989. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn Second half of a Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on hermetic linguistics. Wilson discusses schools of thinking based on a mistrust of words, including Nietzsche's anti-linguistics, The Will to Power, and John Zerzan's Elements of Refusal. He looks at modernist and avant-garde poetry as an assault on language. Wilson also discusses mystical approaches to language, including the map of the cosmos with God-letters at the center, the function of the imagination, the ability of words to shatter concepts... Downloads: 1,848 Average rating: (1 review)
	Peter Lamborn Wilson class. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn A class by Peter Lamborn Wilson including discussion on Hermetic linguistics, Nietzsche's anti-linguistics, The Will to Power, duality, mysticism, John Zerzan's "Elements of Refusal", modernism, avant garde, 17th century poetry, Arthur Rimbaud, Sufi ethnology and linguistics, poet vs. shamans, Plato's cave, and archetypes. Downloads: 3,363
	Allen Ginsberg class on William Carlos Williams and prosody - Part 1 - Ginsberg, Allen First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody. Included are discussions on Williams's poems: "Thursday," "To Elsie," "Horned Purple," and "The Term." This class also covers the importance of Williams to Robert Creeley and Williams's translations from Chinese. (Continues on 76p051, currently not available.) Keywords: New American Poetry; Black Mountain School; beat movement; Buddhism; consciousness and literature; objectivism Downloads: 1,662 Average rating: (1 review)
	William S. Burroughs class on writing sources - Burroughs, William S. End of a class with William S. Burroughs, finishing with a question and answer session with Burroughs responding to remarks about women, non-referential images, non-linear thinking, and telepathy. (Continued from 76p020-021.) Keywords: Beat Movement, Experimental Writing, Aural Poetry, Consciousness and Literature Downloads: 1,243
	Peter Lamborn Wilson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading, March, 1998. - Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Taylor, Steven; Wilson, Peter Lamborn A Peter Lamborn Wilson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading with Wilson discussing Harry Smith in a talk he calls, "Praying in darkness." Wilson also discusses Chinese shamanism. Ferlinghetti reads with musical accompaniment by Steven Taylor. They perform "The greedy blues" and "The breeding blues," followed by a series of poems. The reading ends with "Are there not still fireflies" and "Rivers of light." Downloads: 2,065 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 10,342 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	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: 5,314
	Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor and Bobbi Louise Hawkins performance, July, 1989. - Ginsberg, Allen; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne Second half of a reading with Allen Ginsberg, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anne Waldman, and Steven Taylor. This portion of the reading features Waldman and Ginsberg. (Continued from 89P045) Downloads: 1,626 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture, Plowing the clouds, July, 1994. - Wilson, Peter Lamborn A Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on the role of the poet in interpreting archaeology, anthropology, and human pre-history. He encourages poets to get involved in learning about these fields and taking on the task of interpreting the evidence, since scientists are reluctant to draw conclusions about the past. Wilson believes that we should move beyond interdisciplinary studies to what he calls "anti-categorization." During the course of the lecture he outlines some of his own ideas about the origin... Downloads: 2,319 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	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: 2,438 Average rating: (3 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: 3,707
	Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and William S. Burroughs reading, August, 1976. - Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche; Ginsberg, Allen; Rome, David; Waldman, Anne First half of a reading by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and William S. Burroughs. Ginsberg reads "Ayer's rock," "December 1974," "Hospital window," "C'mon Jack," "Don't grow old" and "Father death blues." Waldman reads "Musical garden," "Energy crisis," "Boulder poem" and "Shaman hisses." David Rome reads Trungpa's "Song of the white banner," "Letter to Marpa," "In spring," spontaneous poems, "1111 Pearl Street" and "Zero is nothing." (Continued on 76P123.) Downloads: 1,252 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 7,292 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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: 2,469 Average rating: (1 review)
	William S. Burroughs workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference - Part 2 - Burroughs, William S. Second 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: 6,349
	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: 4,067 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 4,719 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	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: 3,606
	Robert Creeley lecture - Part 2 - Creeley, Robert Second half of a lecture by Robert Creeley discussing family relations, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson and syntax, Cole's Island, and Ginsberg's "Laughing Gas." (First half of this lecture is currently not available.) Downloads: 1,952 Average rating: (1 review)
	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: 1,992 Average rating: (1 review)
	Harry Smith lecture on the Native American cosmos, July, 1990. - Smith, Harry Harry Smith lecture on mythology and cultural practices in traditional and indigenous cultures. Among other topics, he discusses belief in reincarnation, the ceremonial use of peyote, and creation stories. Downloads: 3,759 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Amiri Baraka reading with Steven Taylor song performance, July, 1992. - Ginsberg, Allen; Taylor, Steven; Waldman, Anne First half of a poetry reading at Naropa Institute with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, and Steven Taylor performing songs. Ginsberg reads "Howl" and "Footnote to Howl." Taylor sings "The virus will take one in ten" and "As I walked out one morning." Waldman reads "May I speak thus" and other poems. Baraka reads "The mind of the president," "The best kept secret," "Masked angel costume," "Changes Changing," "X," "Funk lore," "I am" and other poems... Downloads: 2,233 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: 3,253 Average rating: (1 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: 1,551 Average rating: (1 review)
	Philip Whalen class part 1 August 1980 - Whalen, Philip A class, "Rotating Shakespeare," taught by Philip Whalen August 6, 1980. Whalen speaks at length about the historical circumstances of Shakespeare's play Pericles. Whalen spends the majority of the class reading from the play. This is part 1 of 3. Downloads: 120
	Gary Snyder reading August 1983 - Snyder, Gary This August 1983 recording is of Gary Snyder reading in Boulder for the first time since 1972. It is a selection of poetry from his new work "Axe Handles." The commentary between poems reflects his interest im Buddhism and his travelling and anthropological experiences. He comments on the inspirations for some of his written works. Downloads: 1,878 Average rating: (1 review)
	Boulder Theater Naropa Institute reading. - Coolidge, Clark; Creeley, Robert; Hawkins, Bobbie Louise; Hollo, Anselm A reading at the Boulder Theater by Clark Coolidge and Robert Creeley with introductions by Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Anselm Hollo. The readings include Coolidge's "City in Regard" and Creeley's "So There," "O Max," "Life," "Helsinki Window," "The Seasons" and "Body." (Continues on 91p071.) Keywords: New American Poetry; beat movement; performance poetry Downloads: 2,380 Average rating: (1 review)