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Recent News
Winter/Spring 2008

   
  Photo Archive
       
    Lois Bialosky  
       
   
  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  
    Junior Burke  
    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)  
       
  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) Dylan Hock (Updated)
    Saul Williams Sharon Mesmer
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 Daisy Zamora
    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

     Dylan Hock (New)

     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)