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Winter/Spring 2010
 
   
  Golden Bodies
   
  Michael Davidson
   
  Old Globe Masterminds
   
  Aemilia Lanyer
 
  Latino/a Web Heads
   
  Giannina Braschi
   
  Today's World Voices
   
    Liu Xiaobo  
 
   
  Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship Project
   
   

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

  
    Steven Hirsch: Conversation with Harold Channer  
    David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg: "ROCKPILE, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition"  

Fall 2009
   
  Publishers
   
    Amiri Baraka: Yugen/Totem Press  
    Ted Berrigan: "C" Press Archives  
    Andrei Codrescu: Exquisite Corpse  
    Cid Corman: Origin Press  
    Robert Creeley: Divers Press  
    Lita Hornick: Kulchur  
    D.A. Levy: Renegade Press  
    James Russell Lowell: The Pioneer: a literary and critical magazine  
    Shiv Mirabito: Wildflowers: a Woodstock mountain poetry anthology /Shivastan Publishing  
    Randy Roark: Friction Mag/Laocoon Press  
    Ed Sanders: Fuck You Press Archive  
    Danny Shot & Eliot Katz: Long Shot  
    Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh: Angel Hair  
   
  Golden Bodies
   
    John Lee Clark's Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology  
    Kathi Wolfe  
   
  Daughters of Stein
   
    Lee Ann Brown  
    Carla Harryman  
    Lisa Jarnot  
    Mina Loy  
    Jena Osman  
    Kristin Prevallet  
    Juliana Spahr  
 
   
  Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship Project
   
    Jim Carroll: Interview with Nate Schweber  
    Andrei Codrescu: Interview with Robert Birnbaum  
    Wanda Coleman & Troung Tran: "Letters to Poets"  
   

Steven Foehr: "Death and the Rebirth of Patti Smith"

  
    Bob Holman: "What's American About American Poetry?"  
    Lisa Jarnot: "On Identity"  
    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"  
   

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

 
    Mark Spitzer: "Bob Dylan's Tarantula: An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clichés"  
    Eliot Weinberger: What Was Formalism?  
    Anne Waldman "Illuminati in the Void" interview with Jim Cohn  
    Saul Williams: Interview by Scene Missing Magazine  
    David Willis: "Father & Son: Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan"  
       
  Legacy
   
    Henry David Thoreau: The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans  

Summer 2009
   
  Invisible Empires of Beatitude
   
    The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetry, 1950-1975  
   
  Golden Bodies
   
    "The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox"-- a film by Miriam Lerner  
   
  Troubadours
   
    Willie Dixon  
   
  Pioneer Masters
   
    Lydia Maria Child  
 
  Postbeat Era
   
    Vernon Frazer  
 
   
  Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship Project
   
    Eliot Katz: Love, War, Fire, Wind: Looking Out from North America's Skull:
A review by Tony Trigilio		  

Spring 2009

NAPALM HEALTH SPA: REPORT 2009

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

 
   
  Eileen Myles
   
    "My Intergeneration"  
       
   
  Postbeat Era
   
    Michael Wojczuk  
    M.L. Liebler  
   
  Old Globe Masterminds
   
    Shelomo Ibn Gabirol  
    Khushhal Khan Khattak  
    Rahman Baba  
   
  20th Century International Bards
   
    George Trakl  
    Salah 'Abd al-Sabur  
   
  Today's World Voices
   
    Barolong Seboni  
    Adam Zagajewski  
    Taha Muhammad Ali  
   
Winter 08-09
   
 
   
  James Weldon Johnson
   
    "Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry"  
   
  Dick Higgins
   
    "Statement on Intermedia"  
   
   
  Poets & Painters
   
    Artists and Poets at a Table Ragamala Painting
    Artists & Poets of the New York School Rebel Painters and Poets of the 1950s
    William Blake School of Literati Painting
    Dante Wallace Stevens
    Horace Surrealists Writers
    Lu Chi The Long Conversation Between Painting and Poetry
    J.D. McClatchy The Poet Speaks of Art
    Persian Miniature Painting Phillis Wheatley
    Marjorie Perloff Cubism
    Kenneth Rexroth Blast No.1, edited by Wyndham Lewis
    1913 Armory Show William Carlos Williams & Juan Gris
   
  Publishers
   
    ALA: Frequently Challenged Books James Laughlin: New Directions
    Donald Allen: Grey Fox Press John Martin: Black Sparrow Press
    Laurence Ferlinghetti: City Lights Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer Trial
    Allen Ginsberg's Howl Trial James R. Osgood: Osgood and Company
    Sam Hamill: Copper Canyon Press Osgood and Company: Leaves of Grass Censored
    Dick Higgins: Something Else Press Barney Rossett: Grove Press
    Allan Kornblum: Coffee House Press Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan: The Paris Review
   
  African American Poezee
   
    James Weldon Johnson  
   
  Troubadours
   
    Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Holland-Dozier-Holland
    Mooka Swan Silvertones
    Dixie Hummingbirds  
   
  Audio Exhibit
   
    Mooka Rennick: Prairie Sun Recording Studio  
   
  Middle Eastern American Poets
   
    Remi Kanazi  
   
  Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings
   
    Kyi May Kaung  
   
  Today's World Voices
   
    The AccoLade  
   
  EuroAmerican Shapeshifters
   
    Dick Higgins  
   
  Invisible Empires of Beatitude
   
    Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College: Diversity Poetics Materials  
   
  Postbeat Era
   
    David Cope: The Making of Two Poems  
Summer/Fall 2008

   
  Spoken Word Music
       
    Impermanence  
       
   
  Troubadours
   
    Rudy Ray Moore  
   
  Digital Vistas
   
    Ada Lovelace  
   
  Audio Exhibit
   
    Theme Time Radio Hour  
   
  20th Century International Bards
   
    Sargon Boulus Gertrude Kolmar
    Hilde Domin Ingeborg Bachmann
    Nicanor Parra Ilse Aichinger
    Tamura Ryuichi Siamanto
    Natalya Gorbanevskaya Wislawa Szymborska
    Nina Cassian Fadwa Tuqan
    Nelly Sachs Don Mattera
    Breyten Breytenbach Utpal Kumar Basu
    Malay Roy Choudhury Haj Gora Haji
    Natan Zach Kamala Das
    Primo Levi Dambudzo Marechera
   
  Today's World Voices
   
    Shi Tao Layla Anwar
    Meena Alexander Bai Hua
    Carmen Boullosa Aku Wuwu
    Patti Smith Partaw Naderi
    Saul Williams Nancy Morejon
    Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Amal Nawwar
    Kajal Ahmad Adnan Al-Sayegh
    Anne Waldman Joumana Haddad
    Marco Pogacar Daisy Zamora
    Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Elvia Ardalani
    Irina Ratushinskaya Irena Klepfisz
    Peter Cook/Kenny Learner Chirikuré Chirikuré
    Ben Okri Hassan El Ouazzani
    Amal al-Jubouri Galsan Tschinag
    Ling Yu Gert Vlok Nel
    Raza Ali Hasan  
   
  Postbeat Era
   
    Steve Silberman  
   
  Middle Eastern American Poets
   
    Camelia Entekhabifard  
    Roya Hakakian  
    Wali Shaaker  
   
  Invisible Empires of Beatitude
   
    Fred McDarrah  
   
  Postbeat Era Video Archive
   
    Sharon Mesmer  
    Martin Espada  
    Wang Ping  
    Saul Williams  
    Dunya Mikhail  
    Bob Holman  
   

NAPALM HEALTH SPA: REPORT 2008

Anne Waldman
Randy Roark
Janine Pommy Vega
Anonymous
Wanda Coleman
Ananda Gayatri
Donna Sewell
Marc Olmsted
Sharon Mesmer
Bob Rixon
Nancy Mercado
Eliot Katz
Vivian Demuth
David Cope
Melissa Wray
Jim Cohn
Ingrid Swanberg
Dave Roskos
Shira Segal
Cliff Fyman
Wang Ping
Peter Marti
Akilah Oliver
Genevieve Legacy
Kevin Hayes
Katie Yates
Sam Abrams

Winter/Spring 2008

   
  Photo Archive
       
    Lois Bialosky  
       
   
  Digital Vistas
   
    Ed Bowes  
   
  Tests
   
    Albert Hofmann  
    Timothy Leary  
    Illicit Drugs  
    Posters  
       
  Audio Exhibit
   
    PennSound  
   
  Native American Words Between Worlds
   
    Black Elk  
    John Neihardt  
    N. Scott Momady  
    Cheryl Savageau  
    Elise Paschen  
    Trevino Brings Plenty  
    Kimberly Roppolo  
    Thomas Hubbard  
       
  Daughters of Stein
   
    Alicia Ostriker  
    Sharon Olds  
   
  Middle Eastern American Poets
   
    Mohja Kahf  
    Lisa Suhair Majaj  
       
  Latino/a Web Heads
   
    Jack Agüeros  
    Pedro Pietri  
    Nancy Mercado  
    Bernice Zamora  
       
  Troubadours
   
    Laurie Anderson  
    Lou Reed  
    B.B. King  
    Pete Seeger  
    Bruce Springsteen  
       
  Sexuals
   
    Antler  
    Sapphire  
    Lesléa Newman  
       
  Africian American Poezee
       
    Thylias Moss  
    Maya Angelou  
    Rita Dove  
    Cornelius Eady  
    Thomas Sayers Ellis  
    Etheridge Knight  
    Sunni Patterson  
    Lamont Steptoe  
    Lorenzo Thomas  
    Quincy Troupe  
    Alice Walker  
   
  Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings
       
    Kimko Hahn  
    Chögyam Trungpa  
    Thich Nhat Hanh  
    Suji Kwock Kim  
    Shirley Geok-lin Lim  
    Nellie Wong  
   
  Golden Bodies
   
    Flying Words Project  
    Josh Blue  
    Eddie Swayze  
       
  Pioneer Masters
   
    Jupiter Hammon  
   
  Invisible Empires of Beatitude
       
    Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy (1959)  
    d.a. levy  
       
  Postbeat Era
       
    Wanda Coleman Peter Cook
    Yusef Komunyakaa Miguel Algarín
    Lamont Steptoe Nancy Mercado
    Thomas Sayers Ellis Martín Espada
    Wang Ping Sherwin Bitsui
    Ali Zarrin Sherman Alexie
    Mohja Kahf Cheryl Savageau
    Andy Clausen (Updated) Postbeat Poets
    Eliot Katz (Updated) Sharon Mesmer
    Saul Williams
Fall 2007

   
  EuroAmerican Shapeshifters
       
    Kenneth Patchen  
       
 
   
    Blue Neon Alley
    Kerouac’s On the Road: Covers from Around the World
   
 
       
    Cave Painting History of Writing
    Gilgamesh Enheduanna
    Homer Sumangalamata
    Sappho Anyte of Tegea
    Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu
    Ovid Kalidasa
    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 Beowulf
    Omar Khayyan 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
    Teresa of Avila Wang Wei
    Basho Lope de Vega
    Miguel de Cervantes Shakespeare
    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  
   
 
       
    Adonis Jose Marti
    Anna Akhmatova Vladimir Mayakovsky
    Yehuda Amichai Pablo Neruda
    Guillaume Apollinaire Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Antonin Artaud Fernando Pessoa
    Andre Breton Jacques Prevert
    Dino Campana Nizar Qabbani
    Ernesto Cardinal Ai Qing
    Jean Cocteau Rainer Marie Rilke
    Mahmoud Darwish Marina Tsvetaeva
    Robert Desnos Tristan Tzara
    Nazim Hikmet Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    Allama Iqbal Muhummad Iqbal Sargon Boulus
    Federico Garcia Lorca Pierre de Ronsard
       
 
Postbeat Era (formerly: eBeats Exhibit)
       
    Gary Lawless: Gulf of Maine Bookstore Blog (New)  
    Gary Gach (New)  
    Leslea Newman (New)  
    David Cope (Updated)  
       
 
       
    I'm Not There: Fake Dylan Meets Fake Ginsberg (New)  
       
  Grene (New)
       
    Native American Religions Chief Seattle
    Black Elk Brook Farm
    Henry David Thoreau John Muir
    Evolution of the Conservation Movement Ernst Haeckel
    Rosalie Edge Robinson Jeffers
    Aldo Leopold Gary Snyder
    Wendell Berry Smokey Bear
    Scott Russell Sanders Peter Matthiessen
    Mary Hunter Austin Gary Nabhan
    Marjory Stoneman Douglas Leslie Marmon Silko
    Rachel Carson E.F. Schumacher
    Edward Abbey Arne Naess
    Barry Holstun Lopez Allen Ginsberg
    Gregory Corso Green Party History
    Lois M. Gibbs Nanao Sakaki
    Terry Tempest Williams Antler
    Gretel Ehrlich Green For All
    Federal Register Environmental Documents Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism
    Linda Hogan  
       
  Tests (Updated)
       
    Ginsberg & Cassady: Paranoid  
       
  Troubadours (Updated)
       
    Gertrude “Ma” Rainey Tribute Joni Mitchell: “For Free”
    Billy Holiday: “Strange Fruit” Jimi Hendrix: “Like A Rolling Stone”
    Muddy Waters: “Rollin’ Stone” Rolling Stones: “Street Fighting Man”
    Elizabeth Cotten: “Freight Train” John Lennon: “Give Peace A Chance”
    Stevie Wonder: “Happy Birthday” Neil Young: “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World”
    James Brown: “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud” Prince: “Purple Rain” (Superbowl 2007)
       
  African American Poezee (Updated)
       
    Last Poets  
    Watts Writers Workshop  
    Kamau Daaood  

Summer 2007

EXHIBITS

Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings
 
     Yoko Ono (New)

Postbeat Era

     Tom Peters (New)

Invisible Empires of Beatitude
 
     Jonas Mekas (New)

Troubadours
 
     Child Ballads (New)

Native American Words Between Worlds

     Sherwin Bitsui (New)

     Allison Hedge Coke (New)

BESTMINDS

After several years of dormancy, we restructured the Best Minds division of MAP. Taking advantage of internet video media sources, we're offering poetry film rarities featuring performances from diverse Beat Generation and Postbeat Era poet communities.

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

Postbeat Era

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

 


NAPALM HEALTH SPA: REPORT 2007

Anne Waldman
Andy Clausen
Sam Abrams
Jeff Poniewaz
Eliot Katz
Antler
Eileen Myles
Jim Cohn
Ruxandra Cesereanu
David Cope
Martin Espada
Andrei Codrescu
Marc Olmsted
Ananda Surya
Kevin Hayes
Nancy Flynn
Shira Segal
Bob Rixon
Lisa McCool
Tom Peters
Melissa Wray
Wang Ping
Randy Roark
Suzi Kaplan Olmsted
Peter Marti


Spring 2007

 

MAP homepage

Anne Waldman reads “Makeup on Empty Space”

EXHIBITS

Middle Eastern American Poets (formerly Arab-American Poets)

Please note the url for this renamed exhibit has been changed to
http://www.poetspath.com/exhibits/middle_eastern_american_poets.html

     Ali Zarrin (New)

Postbeat Era

     Jim Cohn ( Additions to JC's site)  

     Vivian Demuth (New)

     Pathpoesia Prayer Flag Project (New)

          
Invisible Empires of Beatitude

     Allen Ginsberg Doodles and Drawings (Addition to the gallery)

     Allen Ginsberg: Big Beat Bibliography (New)

Troubadours
 
     Tom Pacheco (New)

Golden Bodies
 
     Kevin Kling (New)

The Sexuals
 
     Sex & the Umma (New)