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MUSEUM OF AMERICAN POETICS  (home page)
WHAT'S NEW  Winter/Spring 2008

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
Peter Cook Akilah Oliver
David Cope Ron Padgett  
Lucille Clifton Tom Peters
Robert Creeley Ishmael Reed
 

EXHIBITS

 
20th Century International Bards
 
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id)
Anna Akhmatova
Yehuda Amichai
Guillaume Apollinaire
Antonin Artaud
Andre Breton
Dino Campana
Ernesto Cardinal
Jean Cocteau
Mahmoud Darwish
Robert Desnos
Nazim Hikmet
Allama Iqbal Muhummad Iqbal
Federico Garcia Lorca
Jose Marti
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Pablo Neruda
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Fernando Pessoa
Jacques Prevert
Nizar Qabbani
Ai Qing
Rainer Marie Rilke
Marina Tsvetaeva
Tristan Tzara
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Daisy Zamora
 

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

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
 

Middle Eastern American Poets

 

Elmaz Abinader

Sinan Antoon

Gibran Khalil Gibran

Al Jadid Magazine

Arabic Poetry

D. H. Melhem

Suheir Hammad

Nathalie Handal

Dima Hilal

Lawrence Joseph

Mohja Kahf
Lisa Suhair Majaj

Khaled Mattawa

Dunya Mikhail

Naomi Shihab Nye

Susan Atefat Peckham

Ali Zarrin

 

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

UbuWeb: Sound

 

Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings

 

Ai

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Kimko Hahn
Thich Nhat Hanh

Jessica Hagedorn

Maxine Hong Kingston
Suji Kwock Kim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Timothy Liu

Yoko Ono

Ishle Yi Park

Wang Ping

Chogyam Trungpa

John Yau

Nellie Wong
 

Daughters of Stein

 

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Lyn Hijinian

Susan Howe

Laura (Riding) Jackson

Bernadette Mayer

Alice Notley

Sharon Olds
Alicia Ostriker

Marjorie Perloff

Murial R. Rukeyser

Gertrude Stein

Anne Waldman

Hannah Weiner

 

Digital Vistas

 

George Aguilar:Cin(E)-poetry

Mark Amerika

Basetree Activist Photography

Birth of Data Processing

John Perry Barlow

Do you want love or lust?

ElectroAsylum

Kenneth Goldsmith & Joan La Barbara

KurzweilAI.net

Juliet Martin

Loss Pequeno Glazier

Lie Girls

Poems That Go

Postsecret

The Body Politic

The Secret Books

The Unknown

The Virtual Affair

 

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

Dylan Hock

Bob Holman

Mohja Kahf

Eliot Katz

Yusef Komunyakaa
Gary Lawless
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

Lamont Steptoe

TreeHouse Press

Richard Wilmarth

Ali Zarrin
 

EuroAmerican Shapeshifters

 

John Ashbery

Ted Berrigan (“An interview with John Cage”)

Paul Blackburn

Charles Bukowski

Clark Coolidge

Hart Crane

Robert Creeley

Frank O'Hara

Charles Olson

Jackson Mac Low

Kenneth Patchen

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

 

Golden Bodies

 

504

Josh Blue

Randolph Bourne

Peter Cook

Larry Eigner

Bob Flanagan

Flying Words Project

Ricardo Gil

Stephen Hawking

Helen Keller

Kevin Kling

Dorothy Lange

Josephine Miles

Frank Moore

Outsider Pages

Ragged Edge

Raw Vision

Eddie Swayze

U.S. Freak Shows

Cheryl Marie Wade

 

Grene

 

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

Lois M. Gibbs: Love Canal

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

Blue Neon Alley

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: 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

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

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

 

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
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
Pierre de Ronsard
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
 

Pioneer Masters

 

Anne Bradstreet

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

 

Tests

 

Kesey & The Merry Pranksters

The Psychedelic Library

Whatever It Is

Graduation

Illicit Drugs
Timothy Leary

Ginsberg & Cassady: Paranoid

Feed Your Head

Albert Hofmann

Neal Cassady's “Not All Cars Finish The Trip”

Posters

Hunter S. Thompson

 

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

 

Troubadours

 

David Amram

Laurie Anderson
James Brown

Lord Buckley

Junior Burke

Johnny Cash

Elizabeth Cotten

Child Ballads

The Leonard Cohen Files

Bob Dylan

The Fugs

Jimi Hendrix

Billy Holiday

Woody Guthrie

Robert Hunter: Handwritten Lyrics Collection

Robert Johnson

B.B. King

Huddie Ledbetter

Stagger Lee Files

John Lennon
Joni Mitchell

Ken Nordine

Tom Pacheco

Prince

Public Enemy

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Lou Reed
Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen

Rolling Stones

Harry Smith Archives

Patti Smith

John Trudell

Muddy Waters

Hank Williams (Luke the Drifter)

Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
 

LINKS

 
Areas of Interest:
Poetry Archives Journals
Poetry Museums & Centers Intelligence
Diversity Poetics Tools
 
NAPALM HEALTH SPA
 

CURRENT ISSUE  (Report 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  
 

NAPALM HEALTH ARCHIVES

 

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