Oct 7
No howling.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Howl” being ruled “not obscene” there have been a few posts about “Howl” and free-speech all over this hizzee. An NYC public radio station isn’t going to be playing a reading of it because they’re afraid that the FCC will fine them for the offensive language - and that could come to over $325K or more in fines.
ANYWAY - you can listen to it online anyway. That and a whole lot of other poetry and writing related lectures, thanks to Naropa University’s archive project:
“The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university’s Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde.”
http://www.archive.org/details/naropa
There are readings of “Howl”, and lectures like:
• Peter Warshall lecture on squirrels on earth and stars above.
• a Surrealist poetry reading
• Clark Coolidge bop prosody lecture
Admittedly, some of them are sounding a wee bit avant-garde for my taste, but I’ll take a listen to a few later. It’s all good - a learning experience, if you will.
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