The Museum of American Poetics
“The poetry of the future is opening its doors.”

As mentioned in the New York Times, The Museum of American Poetics (MAP) is a unique amalgamate of poets, students, teachers, scholars, editors, publishers literary centers, and web designers. The museum features an array of multimedia investigations that trace the finest in original American Poetics. Curations include Exhibits, Napalm Health Spa, and the Napalm Health Spa Archives, Transmissions, Best Minds Reading Series,and Maximum Awareness Links.

Dedicated to the energy and vitality that characterizes the distinct shapeliness of American poetic experimentation, the museum celebrates the imaginative and timeless contemporary luminescence brought by America's best poets. Bringing together past and living masters, periods, movements and schools, the Museum of American Poetics is dedicated to the persistent lucid spirit of bards and the contribution of American language arts to planetary consciousness.


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WHAT'S NEW  Summer 2009

BEST MINDS (poetry film rarities featuring performances from diverse Beat Generation and Postbeat Era poet communities)

 

Beat Generation Video Archive

 
Amiri Baraka Jonas Mekas
William Burroughs Kenneth Rexroth
Gregory Corso Gary Snyder
Diane di Prima
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Hirschman
Ted Joans
Jack Kerouac
Joanne Kyger
 

Postbeat Era Video Archive

 
Sherman Alexie Victor Hernandez Cruz Ed Sanders
Antler Bob Dylan Eleni Sikelianos
Ted Berrigan Joy Harjo Patti Smith
Andy Clausen Anselm Hollow Steven Taylor
Andrei Codrescu Eliot Katz Lorenzo Thomas
Jim Cohn Eileen Myles Anne Waldman
Jack Collum Frank O'Hara Sharon Mesmer
Peter Cook Akilah Oliver Bob Holman
David Cope Ron Padgett Wang Ping
Lucille Clifton Tom Peters Dunya Mikhail
Robert Creeley Ishmael Reed Saul Williams
Martin Espada  
 

EXHIBITS

 
20th Century International Bards
 
'Abdal-Wahhab al-Bayyati
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id)
Salah 'Abd al-Sabur
Ilse Aichinger
Anna Akhmatova
Rafael Alberti
Nazik al-Mala'ika
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Yehuda Amichai
Guillaume Apollinaire
Antonin Artaud
Ingeborg Bachmann
Utpal Kumar Basu
Sargon Boulus
Dennis Brutus
Andre Breton
Breyten Breytenbach
Dino Campana
Ernesto Cardinal
Nina Cassian
Jean Cocteau
Malay Roy Choudhury
Wen Chu-an
Dambudzo Marechera
Mahmoud Darwish
Kamala Das
Robert Desnos
Hilde Domin
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Haj Gora Haji
Nazim Hikmet
Allama Iqbal Muhummad Iqbal
Gertrude Kolmar
Primo Levi
Federico Garcia Lorca
Jose Marti
Don Mattera
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Pablo Neruda
Nicanor Parra
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Fernando Pessoa
Jacques Prevert
Nizar Qabbani
Ai Qing
Rainer Marie Rilke
Yiannis Ritsos
Leonel Rugama
Tamura Ryuichi
Nelly Sachs
Siamanto
Wislawa Szymborska
George Trakl
Lhasang Tsering
Tenzin Tsundue
Marina Tsvetaeva
Ibrahim Tukan
Fadwa Tuqan
Tristan Tzara
Ko Un
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Natan Zach
 

African American Poezee

 
Maya Angelou

Amiri Baraka

Black Arts Movement

Black Arts Movement: Documents

Gwendolyn Brooks

Wanda Coleman

Countee Cullen

Kamau Daaood
Rita Dove

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Cornelius Eady
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Sunni Patterson

Snally Gaster's African American Phat Library

Nikki Giovanni

Harlem 1900-1940: The Schomburg Exhibition

Robert Hayden

Terrance Hayes

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

June Jordan

Etheridge Knight

Yusef Komunyakaa

Last Poets

E. Ethelbert Miller

Thylias Moss

Sonia Sanchez

Lamont Steptoe
Lorenzo Thomas
Quincy Troupe
Alice Walker
Watts Writers Workshop
   

Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings

 

Ai

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Kimko Hahn
Thich Nhat Hanh

Jessica Hagedorn

Kyi May Kaung
Maxine Hong Kingston
Suji Kwock Kim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Timothy Liu

Ming the Merciless

Yoko Ono

Ishle Yi Park

Wang Ping

Eileen Tabios
Chogyam Trungpa

John Yau

Nellie Wong
 

Audio Exhibit

 

Academy Of American Poets Listening Booth

ArchiveAudio

Berkeley Poetry Summer Of 65

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

John Cage and 4'33"

EPC: Sound Poetry

Kerouac Speaks

Live At The Ear

Laurable's Poetry Audio

Naropa Audio Archive Project

PennSound
Prairie Sun Recording Studio
Theme Time Radio Hour

UbuWeb: Sound

 

Daughters of Stein

 
Lee Ann Brown

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Lyn Hijinian

Carla Harryman

Susan Howe

Laura (Riding) Jackson

Mina Loy

Bernadette Mayer

Alice Notley

Lisa Jarnot
Sharon Olds
Jena Osman
Alicia Ostriker

Marjorie Perloff

Kristin Prevallet

Murial R. Rukeyser

Juliana Spahr

Gertrude Stein

Anne Waldman

Hannah Weiner

 

EuroAmerican Shapeshifters

 

John Ashbery

Ted Berrigan (“An interview with John Cage”)

Paul Blackburn

Charles Bukowski

Clark Coolidge

Hart Crane

Robert Creeley

Dick Higgins

Frank O'Hara

Charles Olson

Jackson Mac Low

Kenneth Patchen

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

 

Golden Bodies

 

504

Josh Blue

Randolph Bourne

Peter Cook

Michael Davidson

Larry Eigner

Bob Flanagan

Flying Words Project

Ricardo Gil

Stephen Hawking

Helen Keller

Kevin Kling

Dorothy Lange

"The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox"-- a film by Miriam Lerner

Josephine Miles

Frank Moore

Outsider Pages

Ragged Edge

Raw Vision

Eddie Swayze

U.S. Freak Shows

Cheryl Marie Wade

 

Ghost Rangers of the Wild

 

Edward Abbey

Antler

Mary Hunter Austin

Wendel Berry

Black Elk Speaks

Brook Farm

Rachel Carson

Chief Seattle

Gregory Corso: "Bomb" (Rocky Flats, 1975)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Origin of term "Ecology": Ernst Haeckel

Rosalie Edge

Gretel Ehrlich

Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism

Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1847-1920

Federal Register Environmental Documents: Impact Statements

Allen Ginsberg: Hiroshima August 6, 1945/"Plutonium Ode"

Green Party History
Linda Hogan

Robinson Jeffers

Aldo Leopold: Excerpts

Barry Holstun Lopez

Peter Matthiessen

John Muir

Gary Nabhan
Arne Nash: Deep Ecology

Native American Religions

Nanao Sakaki

Scott Russell Sanders
E.F. Schumacher
Leslie Marmon Silko

Smokey Bear

Gary Snyder

Henry David Thoreau

Terry Tempest Williams

 

Invisible Empires of Beatitude

 

American Museum of Beat Art

Al Aronowitz

Kerouac Alley
The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetry, 1950-1975

Stan Brakhage

Ray Bremser

Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage

Neal Cassady (Neal's Denver)

Gregory Corso

A Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature

Diane di Prima

Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Robert Frank

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College

Allen Ginsberg: Big Beat Bibliography

Allen Ginsberg: Drawings and Inscriptions Gallery

Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book

Ted Joans Tribute

Lenore Kandel

Bob Kaufman

Kerouac’s On the Road: Covers from Around the World

Joanne Kyger

d.a. levy
Fred McDarrah

Jonas Mekas

Fillmore Museum

Peter Orlovsky

Kenneth Rexroth

Gary Snyder

The Trial of the Chicago Seven

Ed Sanders

Lew Welch

Philip Whalen

 

Latino/a Web Heads

 
Jack Agueros

Miguel Algarin

Julia Alvarez

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Giannina Braschi

Sandra Cisneros

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Martín Espada

Demetria Martínez

Luis Palés Matos

Nancy Mercado

Pablo Neruda

Pedro Pietri

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Piri Thomas

Miguel Pinero

Bernice Zamora
 

Magnificent Rainbow: Kids Form Poems

 

13 Ways

Acrostic

After WCW

Chant

Concrete

Earth Poems

Going-inside Poems

“I-Remember” Poems

I used to be . . . (but now I'm . . .)

List Poems

Lunes

On Poetry

Place Poems

Questions without Answers

Recipe Poems

Sestina

Spanish-English

Thing Poems

 

Middle Eastern American Poets

 

Elmaz Abinader

Sinan Antoon

Camelia Entekhabifard
Gibran Khalil Gibran

Al Jadid Magazine

Arabic Poetry

D. H. Melhem

Roya Hakakian

Suheir Hammad

Nathalie Handal

Dima Hilal

Lawrence Joseph

Mohja Kahf
Remi Kanazi
Lisa Suhair Majaj

Khaled Mattawa

Dunya Mikhail

Naomi Shihab Nye

Susan Atefat Peckham

Wali Shaaker

Ali Zarrin

 

Native American Words Between Worlds

 

Sherman Alexie

Paula Gunn Allen

Sherwin Bitsui

Trevino Brings Plenty
Black Elk

Joseph Bruchac

Allison Hedge Coke

Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan

Thomas Hubbard

Maurice Kenny

N. Scott Momaday
John Neihardt

Simon Ortiz

Elise Paschen
Kimberly Roppolo

Wendy Rose

Cheryl Savageau

Anna Lee Walters

 
Old Globe Masterminds
 
Cave Painting
History of Writing
Gilgamesh
Enheduanna
Homer
Sumangalamata
Sappho
Lao Tzu
Chuang Tzu
Anyte of Tegea
Ovid
Kalidasa
Rahman Baba
Ban Zhao
Auvaiyar
Bodidharma
The Mu’allaqat
Khansa
Layla al-Akhyaliyyah
Du Fu
Li Bai
Rabia al Basri
Han Shan
Xue Tao
Yu Xuanji
Yeshe Tsogyal
Lady Ise
Sei Shonagon
Shelomo Ibn Gabirol
Beowulf
Omar Khayyan
Khushhal Khan Khattak
Akka Mahadevi
Li Qingzhao
Milarepa
Rumi
Dante
Dogen
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Petrarch
Lalla
Leonor Lopez de Cordoba
Geoffrey Chaucer
Francois Villon
Christine de Pizan
Kabir
Mirabai
John Skelton
Joachim du Bellay
Pierre de Ronsard
Teresa of Avila
Wang Wei
Basho
Lope de Vega
Miguel de Cervantes
Shakespeare
Aemilia Lanyer
Ben Jonson
Thomas Campion
John Donne
Bulleh Shah
Olympe de Gouges
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Geronimo
Black Elk
 

Pioneer Masters

 

Anne Bradstreet

Lydia Maria Child

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Emily Dickinson

Grand Canyon Polychrome Sites

Jupiter Hammon

Edgar Allan Poe

Slave Narratives

Southwestern U.S. Rock Art

Phillis Wheatley

Whitman's notebook

 
Poets & Painters
 
1913 Armory Show
Artists and Poets at a Table
Artists & Poets of the New York School
William Blake
Blast No.1, edited by Wyndham Lewis
Cubism
Dante
Horace
Lu Chi
J.D. McClatchy
Persian Miniature Painting
Marjorie Perloff
Ragamala Painting
Rebel Painters and Poets of the 1950s
School of Literati Painting
Kenneth Rexroth
Wallace Stevens
Surrealists Writers
The Long Conversation Between Painting and Poetry
The Poet Speaks of Art
Phillis Wheatley
William Carlos Williams & Juan Gris
 

Postbeat Era (formerly: eBeats Exhibit)

 
Sherman Alexie
Miguel Algarín

American Poet Greats

Antler

Sherwin Bitsui

Bombay Gin: The Early Days

Carmen Bugen

Sharon Mesmer

Andy Clausen

Jim Cohn

Wanda Coleman
Peter Cook

David Cope

Vivian Demuth

Eric Drooker

Martín Espada
Gary Gach
Vernon Frazer
Roya Hakakian

Bob Holman

Mohja Kahf

Eliot Katz

Yusef Komunyakaa
Gary Lawless
M.L. Liebler
Nancy Mercado

Stephen Miles Gallery

Eileen Myles

Lesléa Newman

Marc Olmsted

Pathpoesia Prayer Flag Project

Sunni Patterson

Tom Peters

Wang Ping
Postbeat Poets

Randy Roark

Bob Rixon

Cheryl Savageau
Thomas Sayers

Eleni Sikelianos

Steve Silberman
Lamont Steptoe

TreeHouse Press

Anne Waldman

Richard Wilmarth

Michael Wojczuk
Ali Zarrin
 
Publishers
 
ALA: Frequently Challenged Books
Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh: Angel Hair
Donald Allen: Grey Fox Press
Amiri Baraka: Yugen/Totem Press
Ted Berrigan: "C" Press Archives
Andrei Codrescu: Exquisite Corpse
Origin Press: Cid Corman
Divers Press: Robert Creeley
Laurence Ferlinghetti: City Lights
Allen Ginsberg's Howl Trial
Sam Hamill: Copper Canyon Press
Dick Higgins: Something Else Press
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan: The Paris Review
Allan Kornblum: Coffee House Press
James Laughlin: New Directions
Renegade Press: D.A. Levy
John Martin: Black Sparrow Press
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer Trial
Shiv Mirabito: Wildflowers: a Woodstock mountain poetry anthology /Shivastan Publishing
James R. Osgood: Osgood and Company
Osgood and Company: Leaves of Grass Censored
Randy Roark: Friction Mag/Laocoon Press
Barney Rossett: Grove Press
Ed Sanders: Fuck You Press Archive
Danny Shot & Eliot Katz: Long Shot
 

The Sexuals

 
Paula Gunn Allen
Antler

Jaime de Angulo

W.H. Auden

Elizabeth Bishop

Joe Brainard

Minnie Bruce

William S. Burroughs

Emily Dickinson

Robert Duncan

Kenward Elmslie

Essex Hemphill

Langston Hughes

Audre Lorde

Amy Lowell

Claude McKay

Cherrie Moraga

Eileen Myles

Lesléa Newman

Frank O'Hara

Marge Piercy

Adrienne Rich

Muriel Rukeyser

Sapphire

James Schuyler

Anne Sexton

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde

 
Today's World Voices
 
Meena Alexander
Taha Muhammad Ali
Layla Anwar
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Adnan Al-Sayegh
Kajal Ahmad
Elvia Ardalani
Carmen Boullosa
Chirikuré Chirikuré
Peter Cook/Kenny Learner
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Joumana Haddad
Raza Ali Hasan
Bai Hua
Amal al-Jubouri
Irena Klepfisz
Michael Muhammad Knight
Nancy Morejón
Partaw Naderi
Amal Nawwar
Gert Vlok Nel
Hassan El Ouazzani
Ben Okri
Marko Pogacar
Irina Ratushinskaya
Barolong Seboni
Patti Smith
Shi Tao
Galsan Tschinag
Anne Waldman
Saul Williams
Aku Wuwu
Ling Yu
Daisy Zamora
Adam Zagajewski
Liu Xiaobo
 

Troubadours

 

David Amram

Laurie Anderson
James Brown

Lord Buckley

Johnny Cash

Elizabeth Cotten

Child Ballads

The Leonard Cohen Files

Dixie Hummingbirds
Willie Dixon

Bob Dylan

The Fugs

Jimi Hendrix

Billy Holiday

Holland-Dozier-Holland

Woody Guthrie

Robert Hunter: Handwritten Lyrics Collection

Robert Johnson

B.B. King

Huddie Ledbetter

Stagger Lee Files

John Lennon
Joni Mitchell
Mooka
Rudy Ray Moore

Ken Nordine

Tom Pacheco

Prince

Public Enemy

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Lou Reed
Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen

Rolling Stones

Harry Smith Archives

Patti Smith

Joe Strummer
Swan Silvertones

John Trudell

Muddy Waters

Hank Williams (Luke the Drifter)

Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
 
 
NAPALM HEALTH SPA
 

CURRENT ISSUE  (Report 2009)

 
Ali Zarrin Eliot Katz Randy Roark
Sam Abrams Genevieve Legacy Andy Clausen
Jim Cohn Peter Marti Ariel Holden
Miho Kinnas Jack Hirschman Lisa Birman
David Cope Carmen Bugan Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner
Prospero Saiz James Ruggia Lesléa Newman
Ron Rodriguez Marc Olmsted Steve Silberman
Andre Codrescu Sarah Peters Katie Yates
Rob Geisen Suzi Kaplan Olmsted Thomas R. Peters, Jr.
Dan Munoz Brendan Kirk Timothy Weigand
Sky Smith Raza Ali Hasan Kevin Hayes
Jeff Poniewaz Antler  
 

NAPALM HEALTH ARCHIVES

 

2008  

 
Sam Abrams Genevieve Legacy Dave Roskos
Jim Cohn Peter Marti Shira Segal
Wanda Coleman Nancy Mercado Donna Sewell
David Cope Sharon Mesmer Ingrid Swanberg
Vivian Demuth Akilah Oliver Anne Waldman
Cliff Fyman Marc Olmsted Melissa Wray
Ananda Gayatri Wang Ping Katie Yates
Kevin Hayes Bob Rixon Janine Pommy Vega
Eliot Katz Randy Roark Anonymous
 
2007
 
Sam Abrams Kevin Hayes Jeff Poniewaz
Antler Eliot Katz Bob Rixon
Andy Clausen Peter Marti Randy Roark
Andrei Codrescu Lisa McCool Shira Segal
Ruxandra Cesereanu Eileen Myles Ananda Surya
Jim Cohn Marc Olmsted Anne Waldman
David Cope Suzi Kaplan Olmsted Melissa Wray
Martin Espada Tom Peters  
Nancy Flynn Wang Ping  
 

2006

 
Antler Vivian Demuth Marc Olmsted
Carmen Bugen Kevin Hayes Suzi Kaplan Olmsted
Andy Clausen Holly Jones Michael Pingarron
Andrei Codrescu Eliot Katz Jeff Poniewaz
Jim Cohn Joel Lewis Randy Roark
David Cope Peter Marti Anne Waldman
  Eileen Myles Ali Zarrin
 

2005

 
Gary Lawless & Manuel Alonso Eliot Katz Janine Pommy Vega
Antler Kenny Lerner Juan Pomponio
Jim Cohn Peter Marti Jeff Poniewaz
David Cope Mursalata Muhammad Bob Rixon
Eric Greinke Marc Olmsted Randy Roark
Kevin Hayes Thomas R. Peters, Jr. Shira Segal
Nathan Kade Michael Pingarron Anne Waldman
 

2004  

 
Pablo Neruda Antler Marc Olmsted
Dima Hilal Bob Rixon Bob Drojarski
Serhiy Zhadan Suzi Kaplan Olmsted Sam Abrams
David Cope Kenny Lerner Peter Cook
Michael Pingarron Kevin Hayes David Smith
Eliot Katz Jim Cohn C.S. Carleton
Vivian Demuth Thomas R. Peters Jr. Peter Marti
 

2003  

 
Ted Berrigan & Jack Collom Sam Abrams Kevin Hayes
Andrei Codrescu Michael Pingarron Suzi Kaplan Olmsted
Kenny &Miriam Lerner Boulder Poets Marc Olmsted
Eliot Katz Richard Wilmarth Todd Beers
Jim Cohn Mary Kite Shira Segal
David Cope Art Goodtimes Steven VanOeveren
Andy Clausen Wendy Low Gary Lawless
Janine Pommy Vega Josh Gilman Peter Cook
James Ruggia Mursalata Muhammad  
Bob Rixon Peter Marti  
 

2002

 
Gary Allen Antler Marc Olmsted
Bob Rixon Carol Graser Sam Abrams
Shira Segal Jack Collom Benjamin Bultema
Eliot Katz Tulku Thubten Michael Pingarron
Kevin Hayes Norm Davis Marc Pietrzykowski
Jim Cohn Katie Yates Sandy Karng
David Cope Steve Hirsch Kenny Lerner
 

2001

 
Amiri Baraka Andy Clausen Kelly Jilbert
Anne Waldman David Cope Jim Cohn
Eliot Katz Bob Rixon Marc Olmsted
Kenny Lerner Katie Yates Richard Wilmarth
Michael Pingarron Andrew Schelling Carmen Bugan
 

2000

 
Anne Waldman Tanya Kern Jim Cohn
Antler Jack Greene Todd Beers
David Cope James Ruggia Richard Wilmarth
Tom Peters Shira Segal Marc Olmsted
Christina-Maria Umscheid Eliot Katz Gary Lawless
Bob Rixon Carmen Bugan  
 

1999

 
Steve Hirsch Randy Roark Sam Abrams
Tanya Kern Marc Olmsted Jack Collom
Gary Lawless Finvola Drury Jim Cohn
Bob Rixon Rob Geisen Richard Wilmarth
Shira Segal Todd Beers David Cope
Michael Friedman John Karbula  
 

1998

 
David Cope Randy Roark James Hoffman
Antler Marc Olmsted Shira Segal
Tanya Kern Steven Hirsch Jim Cohn
James Ruggia Carol Graser  
Sue Rhynhart Bobby Johnson  
 

TRANSMISSIONS

 
Legacy
 

Sam Abrams
“Permanent Universal Image Donation and Total Release, Consent and Authorization”

Afrika Bambaataa
"Universal Zulu Nation (Wisdom)"

Amiri Baraka
from “Expressive Language”

Ted Berrigan
from “The Business of Writing Poetry”

William S. Burroughs
"The Electronic Revolution"

Cid Corman
on Poetry over the Radio

Hart Crane
from “General Aims and Theories”

Robert Creeley
from “Linda Wagner: An Interview With Robert Creeley”

Emily Dickinson
from “Letters to T. W. Higginson”

Ed Dorn
from “The Poet The People The Spirit”

Allen Ginsberg
“Mind Writing Slogans”

Dick Higgins
“Statement on Intermedia”

Anselm Hollo
“Oh Didn't He Ramble (Excerpts from the Informal Seminar Verbarium)”

Langston Hughes
from “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”

James Weldon Johnson
"Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry"

Bob Kaufman
“ABOMUNIST MANIFESTO”

Jack Kerouac
“Belief & Technique for Modern Prose: List of Essentials”

Denise Levertov
from “Some Notes on Organic Form”

Bernadette Mayer
“I Imagine Things”

Pablo Neruda
Nobel Lecture "Towards the Splendid City"

Alice Notley
The Poetics of Disobedience

Frank O'Hara
from “Personism: A Manifesto”

Charles Olson
from “Projective Verse”

Ezra Pound
from “A Retrospect”

Carl Rakosi
from “Day Book”

Kenneth Rexroth
“Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs”

Ed Sanders
from “Investigative Poetry: The Content of History Will Be Poetry”

Gary Snyder
from “Unnatural Writing”

Gertrude Stein
from “Narration: Lecture 2”

Henry David Thoreau
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans

Lew Welch
from “Language is Speech”

Philip Whalen
from “'Goldberry Is Waiting'; or, P.W., His Magic Education as a Poet”

Walt Whitman
from “Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson”

William Carlos Williams
Modernist Guideposts

 
Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship
 
Antler
Interviewed by Porcupine

Levi Asher
Naropa

Jim Carroll
Interview with Nate Schweber
Andy Clausen
"Scansion This"
Andrei Codrescu
Interview with Robert Birnbaum
Jim Cohn
from "Like a Teardrop in Some Forgotten Video"
Jim Cohn
Postbeats Poets essay
Jim Cohn
Interview by Randy Roark
Wanda Coleman
"What is American About American Poetry"
Wanda Coleman & Troung Tran
"Letters to Poets"
David Cope
"Play & Turn the Wheel: Midlife Poetics"

Michael Davidson
"Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner"

Martin Espada
Interviewed By Luis Urrea

Steven Foehr
"Death and the Rebirth of Patti Smith"

Vernon Frazer
Extending the Age of Spontaneity to a New Era: Post-Beat Poets in America

Christopher T. Funkhouser
from "Layered Effects in Multiplex Poetry Since Black Mountain"

Steven Hirsch
Conversation with Harold Channer
Bob Holman
"What's American About American Poetry?"
Lisa Jarnot
"On Identity"
Eliot Katz
Unlocking the Language Room of War
Eliot Katz
Love, War, Fire, Wind: Looking Out from North America's Skull: A review by Tony Trigilio
Sharon Mesmer
"Twenty Years On"
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
"ROCKPILE, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition"
Eileen Myles
"Shore Leave"
Lesléa Newman
Northampton's poet laureate on writing
Marc Olmsted
"Statement of Poetics"
Pedro Pietri:
"There Was Never No Tomorrow: Nuyorican Pedro Pietri In His Own Words"
Kristin Prevallet
"Navigating the New Chaos: Anne Waldman’s Collaborations with Visual Artists"
Bob Rixon
“Happy Birthday David”

Ron Rodriguez
Washington Writers' Publishing House interview

Mary Sands & Michael Rothenberg
"Renaissance: The Beat and Beyond"

Danny Shot
Long Shot
Steve Silberman
The Only Song of God
Steve Silberman
Who Was Cowboy Neal?
Steve Silberman
Married to the Guru
Steve Silberman
Appreciation: Poet Was Ever a Subversive Spirit: Gregory Corso Despised Pretention
Mark Spitzer
"Bob Dylan's Tarantula: An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clichés"
Anne Waldman
from "Feminafesto"
Anne Waldman
Interview by Randy Roark
Anne Waldman
"Illuminati in the Void" interview with Jim Cohn
Eliot Weinberger
What Was Formalism?
Saul Williams
Interview by Scene Missing Magazine
David Willis
"Father & Son: Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan"
 
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