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

The Museum of American Poetics (MAP) is a unique amalgam of poets, students, teachers, scholars, editors, publishers, literary centers, and web-designers dedicated to the persistent lucid spirit of bards and their contributions to planetary consciousness. The Museum features a vast array of multimedia investigations that trace the finest in original American Poetics. Since coming online in 1998, MAP has documented major trends in Postbeat poetry through its collection of online exhibits, annual Napalm Health Spa journal, poetics transmissions and growing video channel. Celebrating the diversity of poetries leading up to the Beat Generation, MAP has expanded its coverage of world poetry, with special emphasis on international poets on the front lines against oppression. Dedicated to the energy and vitality that characterizes the distinct shapeliness of ars poetica, MAP brings together past and living masters, periods, movements and schools.


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EXHIBITS

 
20th Century International Bards
 
Abdal-Wahhab al-Bayyati
Adunis (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
Black Elk
Andres Eloy Blanco
Sargon Boulus
Dennis Brutus
Andre Breton
Breyten Breytenbach
Dino Campana
Ernesto Cardinal
Nina Cassian
Constantine Cavafy
Gu Cheng
Jean Cocteau
Malay Roy Choudhury
Wen Chu-an
Mu Dan
Mahmoud Darwish
Robert Desnos
Hilde Domin
Odysseus Elytis
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Geronimo
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Haj Gora Haji
Nazim Hikmet
Allama Iqbal Muhummad Iqbal
Avetik Isahakyan
Nikos Kazantsakis
Gertrude Kolmar
Bernard Kops
Primo Levi
Federico Garcia Lorca
Zhao Luo-rui
Dambudzo Marechera
Jose Marti
Don Mattera
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Zheng Min
Vinicius de Moraes
Guo Mo-ruo
Pablo Neruda
Nicanor Parra
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Octavio Paz
Fernando Pessoa
Jacques Prevert
Nizar Qabbani
Ai Qing
Rainer Marie Rilke
Yiannis Ritsos
Gonzalo Rojas
Leonel Rugama
Tamura Ryuichi
Nelly Sachs
Giorgos Seferis
Hu Shih
Siamanto
Angelos Sikelianos
Kamala Surayya
Wislawa Szymborska
George Trakl
Lhasang Tsering
Tenzin Tsundue
Shen Ts'ung-wen
Marina Tsvetaeva
Ibrahim Tukan
Fadwa Tuqan
Tristan Tzara
Ko Un
Dai Wang-shu
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Wen Yiduo
Feng Zhi
Bian Zhi-lin
Hai Zi
 

African American Poezee

 

Amiri Baraka

Tara Betts

Black Arts Movement

Black Arts Movement: Documents

Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing

Gwendolyn Brooks

Wanda Coleman

Jayne Cortez

Countee Cullen

Kamau Daaood
Rita Dove
W.E.B. DuBois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Cornelius Eady
Thomas Sayers Ellis

Snally Gaster's African American Phat Library

Nikki Giovanni

Harlem Renaissance

Robert Hayden

Terrance Hayes

David Henderson

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson
Patricia Spears Jones

June Jordan

Etheridge Knight

Yusef Komunyakaa

Last Poets

E. Ethelbert Miller

Thylias Moss
Larry Neal
New Negro Poets U.S.A.
Akilah Oliver
Lynne Procope
Ishmael Reed

Sonia Sanchez

Lamont Steptoe
Lorenzo Thomas
Quincy Troupe
Umbra Poets
Alice Walker
Watts Writers Workshop
Malcolm X
   

Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings

 

Ai

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Linh Dinh
Zhang Er
Kimko Hahn
Thich Nhat Hanh

Jessica Hagedorn

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

Timothy Liu

Sawako Nakayasu
Hoa Nyugen

Yoko Ono

Li-Young Lee

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

EPC: Sound Poetry

Kerouac Speaks

Live At The Ear

Laurable's Poetry Audio

Naropa Audio Archive Project

PennSound
Theme Time Radio Hour

UbuWeb: Sound

 

Daughters of Stein

 
Kathy Acker
Lee Ann Brown
Laynie Browne
Maxine Chernoff
H.D.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Janice Erlbaum

Lyn Hijinian

Janet Hamill
Carla Harryman

Susan Howe

Vicki Hudspith

Laura (Riding) Jackson

Denise Levertov
Tsaurah Litzky
Mina Loy

Bernadette Mayer

Sharon Mesmer
Eileen Myles
Lesléa Newman

Alice Notley

Lisa Jarnot
Sharon Olds
Jena Osman
Alicia Ostriker
Maureen Owen

Marjorie Perloff

Kristin Prevallet
Adrienne Rich
Riot Grrrls Manifesto

Murial R. Rukeyser

Juliana Spahr
Ingrid Swanberg

Gertrude Stein

Anne Tardos

Anne Waldman

Hannah Weiner

 

EuroAmerican Shapeshifters

 
Sam Abrams

John Ashbery

Ted Berrigan

Paul Blackburn

Robin Blaser

Charles Bukowski

Andrei Codrescu

Clark Coolidge

Hart Crane

Robert Creeley

Ed Dorn
Robert Duncan
T.S. Eliot
Dick Higgins
Jack Hirschman
Philip Lamantia

Frank O'Hara

Charles Olson

Joel Oppenheimer

Jackson Mac Low

Kenneth Patchen

Ezra Pound

Kenneth Rexroth
Jerome Rothenberg
Jack Spicer
Wallace Stevens

William Carlos Williams

 

Golden Bodies

 

504

Josh Blue

Randolph Bourne

John Burroughs
John Lee Clark

Peter Cook

Michael Davidson
Leonard Davis: "Constructing Normalcy"/Disability Studies Reader

Larry Eigner

Bob Flanagan

Flying Words Project

Helen Keller

Kevin Kling

Dorothy Lange

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

Josephine Miles

Frank Moore

Outsider Pages

Eddie Swayze

U.S. Freak Shows

 

Ghost Rangers of the Wild

 

Edward Abbey

Sandra Alcosser

Antler

Mary Hunter Austin

Wendel Berry

Black Elk Speaks

Brook Farm

Rachel Carson

Chief Seattle

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Gretel Ehrlich

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

Robinson Jeffers

Gary Lawless: Mygrations
Aldo Leopold: Excerpts

Barry Holstun Lopez

Peter Matthiessen

John Muir

Gary Nabhan

Native American Religions

Nanao Sakaki

Scott Russell Sanders
E.F. Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful
Leslie Marmon Silko

Smokey Bear

Gary Snyder

Henry David Thoreau

Terry Tempest Williams

 

Invisible Empires of Beatitude

 

American Museum of Beat Art

Amiri Baraka

Ray Bremser

RealityStudio: A William S. Burroughs Community

Carolyn Cassady

Neal Cassady (Neal's Denver)

Gregory Corso

Elise Cowen

A Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature

Diane di Prima

Mary Fabilli

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Brenda Frazer (aka Bonnie Bremser)

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College

Allen Ginsberg: Big Beat Bibliography

Allen Ginsberg: Drawings and Inscriptions Gallery

LuAnne Henderson
"Howl" (1956) by Allen Ginsberg
Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression
Jack Hirschman
Jack Micheline
Charlie Plymell

Ted Joans Tribute

Joyce Johnson
Hettie Jones

Lenore Kandel

Bob Kaufman

Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show (1959)

Joanne Kyger

Joanna McClure
Michael McClure

Six Gallery Reading

Peter Orlovsky

Kenneth Rexroth

Hubert Selby, Jr.
Carl Solomon

Gary Snyder

Jack Spicer
Janine Pommy Vega
Joan Vollmer (aka Joan Vollmer Burroughs)
Ruth Weiss

Lew Welch

Philip Whalen

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (1996)
 

Latino/a Web Heads

 
Francisco X. Alarcon

Miguel Algarin

Julia Alvarez

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Giannina Braschi
Ingrid Chavez

Sandra Cisneros

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Martín Espada

Susshu Foster
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
Juan Felipe Herrera
M. Miriam Herrera
Nephtalí De León

Demetria Martínez

Luis Palés Matos

Nancy Mercado
Cherríe Moraga
Pedro Pietri
Miguel Piñero

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Ron Rodriguez
Gary Soto

Piri Thomas

Edwin Torres
John Trudell
Cecilia Vicuña
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

Saladin Ahmed
Kazim Ali

Sinan Antoon

Camelia Entekhabifard
Gibran Khalil Gibran

Al Jadid Magazine

Arabic Poetry

D. H. Melhem

Roya Hakakian

Suheir Hammad

Nathalie Handal

Raza Ali Hasan

Dima Hilal

Lawrence Joseph

Mohja Kahf
Remi Kanazi
Lisa Suhair Majaj

Khaled Mattawa

Mohamed Metwalli

Dunya Mikhail

Murat Nemet-Nejat

Naomi Shihab Nye

Susan Atefat Peckham

Wali Shaaker
Maged Zaher

Ali Zarrin

 

Native American Words Between Worlds

 

Sherman Alexie

Paula Gunn Allen
Anishinaabekwe
Henry "Hank" Real Bird

Sherwin Bitsui

Mourning Dove
Trevino Brings Plenty
Black Elk

Joseph Bruchac

Allison Hedge Coke

Nia Francisco
Santee Frazier

Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan

Thomas Hubbard

Maurice Kenny

Tiffany Midge
N. Scott Momaday
John Neihardt

Simon Ortiz

Elise Paschen
Kimberly Roppolo

Wendy Rose

Zitkala-Sa
Cheryl Savageau
Layli Long Soldier

Anna Lee Walters

 
Old Globe Masterminds
 
Cave Painting
History of Writing
Gilgamesh
Enheduanna
Homer
Sumangalamata
Assurbanipal
Sappho
Orpheus
Su Xiaoxiao
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Lao Tzu
Chuang Tzu
Anyte of Tegea
Táin Bó Cuailnge
Sulpicia
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
Jorunn Skaldmey
Steinunn the Poetess
Lady Ise
Bragi Boddason
Sei Shonagon
Shelomo Ibn Gabirol
Beowulf
Bersi Skáldtorfuson
Saadi
Omar Khayyan
Khushhal Khan Khattak
Akka Mahadevi
Li Qingzhao
Milarepa
Snorri
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
Matsuo Basho
Lope de Vega
Miguel de Cervantes
Shakespeare
Aemilia Lanyer
Ben Jonson
Thomas Campion
John Donne
Bulleh Shah
Olympe de Gouges
Giacomo Leopardi
Elias Lönnrot
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
 

Pioneer Masters

 

Anne Bradstreet

Brook Farm
Lydia Maria Child
The Dial
Emily Dickinson
Frederick Douglass

Grand Canyon Polychrome Sites

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jupiter Hammon

Edgar Allan Poe

Sacagawea
Sequoyah

Slave Narratives

Southwestern U.S. Rock Art

Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism

Phillis Wheatley

Walt Whitman
Michael Wigglesworth
Tatanka Yotanka
 
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
Persian Miniature Painting
Marjorie Perloff
Ragamala Painting
Rebel Painters and Poets of the 1950s
School of Literati Painting
Kenneth Rexroth
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

Antler

Tara Betts
Sherwin Bitsui

Carmen Bugen

Reed Bye
Sharon Mesmer

Andy Clausen

Jim Cohn

Wanda Coleman
Peter Cook

Dave Cope Sampler

Vivian Demuth

Eric Drooker

Janice Erlbaum
Martín Espada
Vernon Frazer
Roya Hakakian
Gary Gach
Kirpal Gordon
Janet Hamill
Michael Hogan

Bob Holman

Vicki Hudspith
Patricia Spears Jones
Mohja Kahf

Eliot Katz

Burt Kimmelman
Yusef Komunyakaa
Gary Lawless
d.a. levy
M.L. Liebler
Tsaurah Litzky
Peter Marti
Nancy Mercado

Stephen Miles Gallery

"Our Allen" at Facebook

Eileen Myles

Lesléa Newman

Marc Olmsted

Gary Parrish
Sunni Patterson

Thom Peters

Wang Ping
Jim Cohn: "Postbeat Poets"
Laurie Price
Lynne Procope
Joe Richey

Randy Roark

Ron Rodriguez
Michael Rothenberg

Bob Rixon

James Ruggia
Ed Sanders
Cheryl Savageau
Thomas Sayers
Andrew Schelling

Eleni Sikelianos

Steve Silberman
John Sinclair
Lamont Steptoe
Anne Waldman
Saul Williams

Richard Wilmarth

A.D. Winans
Ali Zarrin
 
Publishers
 
Anne Waldman & Lewis Warsh: Angel Hair
Donald Allen: Grey Fox Press
Amiri Baraka: Yugen/Totem Press
Ted Berrigan: "C" Press Archives
Bombay Gin: The Early Days
Andrei Codrescu: Exquisite Corpse
Ira Cohen: Bardo Matrix Publications
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
A.D. Winans: Second Coming Magazine and Press
Alan Horvath: Kirpan Press
Ingrid Swanberg: Ghost Pony Press
 

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

Allen Ginsberg: an interview
Peter Hale

Essex Hemphill

Langston Hughes

Chris Ide

Audre Lorde

Amy Lowell

Claude McKay

Cherrie Moraga

Eileen Myles

Lesléa Newman

Frank O'Hara

Peter Orlovsky

Marge Piercy

Jeff Poniewaz

Adrienne Rich

Muriel Rukeyser

Sapphire

James Schuyler

Anne Sexton

Steve Silberman

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

Stonewall Riots

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde

 
Today's World Voices
 
Chris Abani
Humberto Ak'abal
Meena Alexander
Taha Muhammad Ali
Tariq Ali
Ahmed al-Shahawi
Layla Anwar
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Adnan Al-Sayegh
Kajal Ahmad
Elvia Ardalani
Homero Aridjis
Sefi Atta
Gabeba Baderoon
Rim Banna
Mari Boine
Carmen Boullosa
Batsirai Chigama
Chirikuré Chirikuré
Xi Chuan
Peter Cook/Kenny Learner
Bei Dao
Linh Dinh
Han Dong
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Huang Fan
Emad Fouad
Günter Grass
Joumana Haddad
Raza Ali Hasan
Kamran Mir Hazar
Consuelo Hernández
Bai Hua
Ren Hui
Hiromi Ito
Cui Jian
Yang Jian
Yu Jian
JR's Post-Beat Streets
Hugo Jamioy Juagibio
Amal al-Jubouri
Meena Kandasamy
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Irena Klepfisz
Natalia Molebatsi
Michael Muhammad Knight
K'NAAN
Inga Kuznetsova
Yang Li
Valter Hugo Mãe
Bejan Matur
Iman Mersal
Nancy Morejón
Partaw Naderi
Amal Nawwar
Gert Vlok Nel
Hassan El Ouazzani
Ben Okri
Marko Pogacar
Che Qian-zi
Tashi Rabtens
Irina Ratushinskaya
Mirta Rosenberg
Valérie Rouzeau
Natalia Sannikova
Barolong Seboni
Javier Sicilia
Patti Smith
Shi Tao
Chouchanik Thamrazian
Ko Ko Thett
Shu Ting
Galsan Tschinag
Ko Un
Saw-Wai
Anne Waldman
Zhu Wen
Saul Williams
Liao Yiwi
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

Karen Dalton
Dixie Hummingbirds
Willie Dixon

Bob Dylan

The Fugs

The Grateful Dead at Internet Archive
Kathleen Hanna

Jimi Hendrix

Billy Holiday

Holland-Dozier-Holland
Andrea Gibson

Woody Guthrie

Robert Hunter: Handwritten Lyrics Collection

Etta James

The Robert Johnson Notebooks

B.B. King

Huddie Ledbetter

Stagger Lee Files

John Lennon
Joni Mitchell
Rudy Ray Moore

Ken Nordine

Johnny Otis

Tom Pacheco

Prince

Public Enemy

Ma Rainey
Lou Reed
Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen

Rolling Stones

Harry Smith Archives

Patti Smith

Joe Strummer
Swan Silvertones

John Trudell

Townes Van Zandt
Muddy Waters

Hank Williams (Luke the Drifter)

Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
 
NAPALM HEALTH SPA: REPORT 2011
 

NAPALM HEALTH ARCHIVES

 
2010  
 
Ali Zarrin Eliot Katz Randy Roark
Michael Rothenberg Kyi May Kaung Andy Clausen
Jim Cohn Peter Marti Peter Orlovsky
Peter Hale Jack Hirschman Bob Rixon
David Cope Nancy Mercado Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anne Waldman Peter Marti Lesléa Newman
Eddie Swayze Marc Olmsted Steve Silberman
Vicente Gerbasi Miguel Angel Flores Katie Yates
Efrain Huerta Sara Kohler Holly Jones
Kevin Hayes Bob Holman Ulalume Gonzalez De Leon
Gary Lawless Bob Drojarski
 
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 Ingrid Swanberg
 

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 Carmen Bugan Marc Olmsted
Christina-Maria Umscheid Eliot Katz Gary Lawless
Bob Rixon  
 

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
David Cope Todd Beers
Michael Friedman John Karbula  
 

1998

 
David Cope Randy Roark James Hoffman
Antler Marc Olmsted Jim Cohn
Tanya Kern Steven Hirsch
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”

Allen Ginsberg
"Spiritual Poetics"

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

Norman Ball
"Camelot Sells A Lot"

Derrick Bell
"Space Traders"

Jim Carroll
Interview with Nate Schweber
Jeff Chang
"Is Protest Music Dead"
Jeff Chang
"New World Order"
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"
Peter Conners
"Sink Like a Stone, Float Like a Feather: The Poetics of Bobby Petersen"
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
Remembering Thomas Chapin

Vernon Frazer
Extending the Age of Spontaneity to a New Era: Post-Beat Poets in America
Sasha Frere-Jones
With Feathers of Solid Chrome, in Beaks of Solid Bone: Captain Beefheart, 1941-2010

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

Jerry Garcia
The Last Interview

Kirpal Gordon
9 Champions of the Spoken Word
Kirpal Gordon
9 Writers Taking The Postbeat Lineage Further

Kirpal Gordon & Vernon Frazer
Who Are We Now: A Retrospective Of Michael Rothenberg

Kirpal Gordon & Stephen-Paul Martin
Vernon Frazer's Improvisations: A Duet
Kirpal Gordon
Speak-Spake-Spoke: An Interview with Norman Ball

Margaret A. Harrell
Meeting Hunter S. Thompson

Steven Hirsch
Conversation with Harold Channer
Bob Holman
"What's American About American Poetry?"
Lisa Jarnot
"On Identity"
Eliot Katz
Andy Clausen's Without Doubt
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"
Peter Marti and Marc Olmsted
Interview by Julie Adler

Joni Mitchell
On Trungpa Rinpoche

Lesléa Newman
Northampton's poet laureate on writing
Marc Olmsted
"Statement of Poetics"

Marc Olmsted
"GENIUS ALL THE TIME: The Beats, Spontaneous Presence, and Primordial Ground" (pdf)

Stan Persky
Review of Christopher Bram's Eminent Outlaws: The Love That Dared To Write Its Name
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

Bob Rosenthal
"Allen Ginsberg, Revisited By His Right-Hand Man"

Michael Rothenberg & Terri Carrion
100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement: "About Text"
Michael Rothenberg
100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement: "Final Press Release"

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"

Bruce Springsteen
SXSW 2012 Keynote Address

Anne Waldman
from "Feminafesto"
Anne Waldman
Interview by Randy Roark
Anne Waldman
"Illuminati in the Void" interview with Jim Cohn
Edwin Forrest Ward
"A Mile High And Underground"
Eliot Weinberger
What Was Formalism?
Cornel West and Public Enemy
September 17, 2011 speech in Wisconsin/"He got game"
Saul Williams
Interview by Scene Missing Magazine
David Willis
"Father & Son: Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan"
Rob Wilson
Beat Attitudes: On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers, Dharma Bums and Cultural-Political Activists
(pdf)
Miles White
"Race Rebels: Whiteness And The New Masculine Desire"
 
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