beats, spoken word, Spicer

beats


Jack

in revery, during a performance of the sort that helped later give rise to the spoken-word movement

• Clellon Holmes, "This is the Beat Generation" (1952)
• on beat journalism
• Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
• A page from the typescript of Ginsberg's Howl
• David Antin on the response to Ginsberg in the cold war - namely that his writing was "anti-poetry," "unliterary"
• Allen Ginsberg and his psychiatrist
• Ginsberg, portion of a letter to John Clellon Holmes written from the "madhouse" in 1949
• Anne Waldman, "Number Song"
• Anne Waldman, biography
• Anne Waldman, "Notes for a Rally (Speech)"
• Anne Waldman, "Rogue State" (performed at the Writers House, April 15, 2003)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Dog"
• audio: Ferlinghetti reads "Dog"
• Lawrence Felinghetti, "Sometime During Eternity"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto"
• audio: Felinghetti reading his "Baseball Canto"
• Jack Kerouac, "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", and "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"
• Kerouac's spontaneous method, three samples from Book of Dreams and Old Angel Midnight
• Jack Kerouac, "trying to think of a rule..." (.au audio file)
• Jack Kerouac, "Charlie Parker Looked Like Buddha" (performed on the Steve Allen Show)
• Kerouac, example of his babble flow (sound writing)
• Jack Kerouac, excerpt from On the Road
• Herbert Gold's review of Kerouac and commentary on the beatnik "movement" (1957)
• video: Amiri Baraka, (need ID and password)
• William Burroughs, "The cut up method" (1963)
• Burroughs and Gysin cut-ups: "Open Letter to Life Magazine" from Minutes to Go
• Clark Coolidge on Kerouac's sound writing
• Elise Cowen, biography and two poems (from Women of the Beat Generation)
  supplemental/optional readings:
• Robert Creeley on the sentence
• Kerouac wore khakis - Gap ad
• Gary Snyder - basic materials for the counterculture

  Allen Ginsberg and Elise Cowen

• Jack Kerouac - more audio files
• Gregory Corso, "The Mad Yak" and brief bio (P208)
• June Jordan, "Poem about My Rights" (Norton, p. 1470-73)
• "beat chick" interviewed
• Allen Ginsberg's FBI file summarized by Herbert Mitgang in Dangerous Dossiers (1988)

  spoken word
  

• Maggie Estep, short bio
• spoken word poetry
• MTV's "Spoken Word" reviewed by Caryn James in the New York Times
• Maggie Estep, "Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere"
• video: Maggie Estep performing "That Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed with"
• Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• Edwin Torres, "All Colors Not White"
• Torres, "A Wutherance of E"
• Edwin Torres bio
• Edwin Torres in performance, December 11, 1999, at the Kelly Writers House
• Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

  Spicer

• readings in Jack Spicer