Robert Frank per Jack Kerouac
"sucked a sad poem"After looking at the photographs to be published in The Americans, Jack Kerouac said of Robert Frank thaAfter looking at the photographs to be published in The Americans, Jack...
View ArticleBill Morgan, Hettie Jones: beat talk last night
Last night at St. Mark's Bookshop on 9th Street and Third Avenue in New York, Bill Morgan and Hettie Jones talked about Morgan's The Beat Atlas, about Ginsberg (a great deal), and about Kerouac and...
View ArticleCoolidge on Kerouac
Clark Coolidge's PennSound page is one I happily recommend. I think my favorite set of recordings there is from his March 2000 reading at the University of California at Santa Cruz, hosted by Peter...
View ArticleWhelm lessons (PoemTalk #60)
Clark Coolidge, "Blues for Alice" PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWBrian Reed (in from Seattle), Maria Damon (Minnesota), and Craig Dworkin (Utah) joined Al Filreis at the Writers House (Philadelphia) in a...
View ArticleWhelm lessons (PoemTalk #60)
Clark Coolidge, "Blues for Alice"LISTEN TO THE SHOWBrian Reed (in from Seattle), Maria Damon (Minnesota), and Craig Dworkin (Utah) joined Al Filreis at the Writers House (Philadelphia) in a rare and —...
View ArticleKerouac riff in text-audio alignment
Thanks to the efforts of PennSound’s Rebekah Caton, principally among others, we are now able to present the text-audio alignment of the opening two paragraphs of Jack Kerouac’s ”October in the...
View ArticleKerouac riff
Jack Kerouac: “Trying to think of a rule in Sanskrit Mamma Sanskrit Sounding obviously twins coming in here Milltown Equinell Miopa Parte Watacha Peemana Kowava.” Here’s a remarkable recording: MP3.
View ArticleJack Kerouac, 'Belief & Technique for Modern Prose'
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that you...
View ArticleRexroth to Kerouac
Josephine ParkBob Perelman’s “hats off to Donald Allen” sent me back to The New American Poetry. [1] Allen’s brief preface sketches out an open field of postwar American poetry, from the modernists to...
View ArticleNomad life
Desperate Literature International Bookshop, Madrid, Spain.Marcus Slease’s new book Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017) collects poems written in the last several years, almost all of them...
View ArticleOur endless ear (PoemTalk #124)
Jack Kerouac, 'Old Angel Midnight' PoemTalkFrom left to right: J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, Clark Coolidge.LISTEN TO THE SHOWJ. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge joined Al...
View ArticleCobbing/Kerouac
detail of Bob Cobbing’s Midnight Press edition of Kerouac’s ‘Old Angel Midnight’Recently I released an episode of PoemTalk in which Clark Coolidge — who has long advocated that Jack Kerouac be taken...
View ArticleBill Morgan, Hettie Jones: Beat talk last night
Last night at St. Mark's Bookshop on 9th Street and Third Avenue in New York, Bill Morgan and Hettie Jones talked about Morgan's The Beat Atlas, about Ginsberg (a great deal), and about Kerouac and...
View ArticleCoolidge on Kerouac
Clark Coolidge's PennSound page is one I happily recommend. I think my favorite set of recordings there is from his March 2000 reading at the University of California at Santa Cruz, hosted by Peter...
View ArticleWhelm lessons (PoemTalk #60)
Clark Coolidge, 'Blues for Alice' PoemTalkLISTEN TO THE SHOWBrian Reed (in from Seattle), Maria Damon (Minnesota), and Craig Dworkin (Utah) joined Al Filreis at the Writers House (Philadelphia) in a...
View ArticleWhelm lessons (PoemTalk #60)
Clark Coolidge, "Blues for Alice"LISTEN TO THE SHOWBrian Reed (in from Seattle), Maria Damon (Minnesota), and Craig Dworkin (Utah) joined Al Filreis at the Writers House (Philadelphia) in a rare and —...
View ArticleKerouac riff in text-audio alignment
Thanks to the efforts of PennSound’s Rebekah Caton, principally among others, we are now able to present the text-audio alignment of the opening two paragraphs of Jack Kerouac’s ”October in the...
View ArticleKerouac riff
Jack Kerouac: “Trying to think of a rule in Sanskrit Mamma Sanskrit Sounding obviously twins coming in here Milltown Equinell Miopa Parte Watacha Peemana Kowava.” Here’s a remarkable recording: MP3.
View ArticleJack Kerouac, 'Belief & Technique for Modern Prose'
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that you...
View ArticleNomad life
Desperate Literature International Bookshop, Madrid, Spain.Marcus Slease’s new book Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017) collects poems written in the last several years, almost all of them...
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