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Bay Area Writers
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These videos are records of several evenings in the Spring of 1976 when a remarkable group of writers came to the beautiful new campus in the Marin foothills and gave so generously of their time to present their art, share their insights into the creative process, speak to the political climate at the end of the Vietnam War / Nixon era and in the midst of the culture war. They offer a rare opportunity to see these writers in the prime of their artistic lives.
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Leonard Wolf Part One
LEONARD WOLF 1923-
Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (also known as Transylvania). He was a Professor of English at San Francisco State University for many years, where he taught courses ranging from Chaucer (of whom he was a scholar) to Romanticism to Creative Writing. He was a social activist and during the time I worked as his Graduate Student Assistant, I helped him with many social causes: we bought and distributed snacks to protestors against a train that would bear munitions for war in Oakland; we organized a “Happening House” to help ground the Hippie movement in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the socially turbulent late 1960s; we organized a reading of Lenore Kandel’s, The Love Book, (a radical poem about female sexual energy and desire, that was busted by the San Francisco Police Department as obscene material, just as they has busted Howl, years before it. Clearly the establishment learned nothing from the court decisions in which issues of the permissibility of candid speech were discussed deeply and decided upon responsibly)-in the reading, a group of distinguished Professors were each to read a section of Kandel’s poem and the idea was that they would be arrested and it would be shown that these decent and responsible community members-professors!-supporting the poem, absolved it of its criminal nature. Leonard’s Dracula books made him a celebrity who even appeared on The Johnny Carson Show, but he was ever an iconoclast with the gift of articulating the most compelling complexities of human life: our abilities to be cruel, to be sadistic, to be monstrous, to be endlessly generous and loving.
Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (also known as Transylvania). He was a Professor of English at San Francisco State University for many years, where he taught courses ranging from Chaucer (of whom he was a scholar) to Romanticism to Creative Writing. He was a social activist and during the time I worked as his Graduate Student Assistant, I helped him with many social causes: we bought and distributed snacks to protestors against a train that would bear munitions for war in Oakland; we organized a “Happening House” to help ground the Hippie movement in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the socially turbulent late 1960s; we organized a reading of Lenore Kandel’s, The Love Book, (a radical poem about female sexual energy and desire, that was busted by the San Francisco Police Department as obscene material, just as they has busted Howl, years before it. Clearly the establishment learned nothing from the court decisions in which issues of the permissibility of candid speech were discussed deeply and decided upon responsibly)-in the reading, a group of distinguished Professors were each to read a section of Kandel’s poem and the idea was that they would be arrested and it would be shown that these decent and responsible community members-professors!-supporting the poem, absolved it of its criminal nature. Leonard’s Dracula books made him a celebrity who even appeared on The Johnny Carson Show, but he was ever an iconoclast with the gift of articulating the most compelling complexities of human life: our abilities to be cruel, to be sadistic, to be monstrous, to be endlessly generous and loving.
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Ernest Gaines
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ERNEST K. GAINES (1933 ) Ernest Gaines was the fifth generation of his sharecropper family to be born on a plantation in Louisiana. He was raised by his aunt, who was crippled and had to crawl to get around the house. When he achieved success with his academic pursuits and then his writing, he was able to purchase the plantation on which he was born and move the church he grew up with to his pr...
Diane DiPrima
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DIANE di Prima 1934- Like Michael McClure, Diane di Prima read her poetry onstage during the evening of _The Last Waltz_(The Band’s farewell performance at Winterland on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. In the tape from class, she tells a story of Kerouac saying to her, “di Prima, until you stop worrying about the baby sitter, you will never be a writer.” She worked with Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones) on t...
Paul Mariah Part One
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PAUL MARIAH 1937-1996 Paul Mariah was a pioneer of the gay literary scene in San Francisco. He was younger than Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer and came to the Bay Area significantly later, but once established here, he literally “opened shop” with the founding of a small press, ManRoot Books, in 1969. The press published many notable writers of the Stonewall era and the San Francisco Renaissance...
Leonard Wolf Part Two
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LEONARD WOLF 1923- Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (also known as Transylvania). He was a Professor of English at San Francisco State University for many years, where he taught courses ranging from Chaucer (of whom he was a scholar) to Romanticism to Creative Writing. He was a social activist and during the time I worked as his Graduate Student Assistant, I helped him with many social ...
Leonard Wolf Part One
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LEONARD WOLF 1923- Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (also known as Transylvania). He was a Professor of English at San Francisco State University for many years, where he taught courses ranging from Chaucer (of whom he was a scholar) to Romanticism to Creative Writing. He was a social activist and during the time I worked as his Graduate Student Assistant, I helped him with many social ...
Paul Mariah PartTwo
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PAUL MARIAH 1937-1996 Paul Mariah was a pioneer of the gay literary scene in San Francisco. He was younger than Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer and came to the Bay Area significantly later, but once established here, he literally “opened shop” with the founding of a small press, ManRoot Books, in 1969. The press published many notable writers of the Stonewall era and the San Francisco Renaissance...
Robert Creeley - Part 2
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Robert Creeley 1926-2005 Robert Creeley, like Robert Duncan, was involved with Black Mountain College, the New American Poetry, and the Beat movement. He was an iconoclastic and modest person who, at some personal cost to overcome his lack of ease in public, nevertheless made himself available to many scholars and students who sought to understand the social and cultural upheavals of the latter...
Bobbi Louise Hawkins
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BOBBIE LOUISE HAWKINS 1930 “Any day’s the same as any other unless you’re in it. Any day in any town.” Bobbie Louise Hawkins was raised in West Texas, studied art in London, taught in missionary schools in British Honduras, and attended Sophia University. She received a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). She was invited by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg to...
Joanne Kyger
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Joanne Kyger 1934 2017 Joanne Kyger, a Bolinas resident (once editor of the local newspaper), moved to the Bay Area from Santa Barbara in 1957 and became involved with the San Francisco Renaissance / Beat poetry group that gathered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. She met Gary Snyder in 1958 and went to Japan with him where they were married in 1960 and for a time. She has been a practicin...
Jack Micheline
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JACK MICHELINE 1929-1998 Jack Micheline was a street poet, first in New York City and then in San Francisco where he lived and wrote about life in the neon underground of cities and the restless, sometimes beatific, sometimes lost souls who dwell in it. Listen to him in the beginning of his presentation as he invokes Lorca’s duende-spirit (not fame or recognition or money) as his guiding princi...
Michael McLure
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Michael McClure 1932- McClure appears as a character in more than one of the Kerouac novels and was part of the famous “Six Gallery Reading” where Alan Ginsberg read Howl for the first time. He was delighted to look out at the classroom and see several copies of his most recent book (a textbook for the course.” David, this is wonderful,” he said. “They all have my book!” “Yes,” I said. And they...
Robert Creeley - Part 1
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Robert Creeley 1926-2005 Robert Creeley, like Robert Duncan, was involved with Black Mountain College, the New American Poetry, and the Beat movement. He was an iconoclastic and modest person who, at some personal cost to overcome his lack of ease in public, nevertheless made himself available to many scholars and students who sought to understand the social and cultural upheavals of the latter...
Robert Duncan - Part 3
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Robert Duncan 1919-1988 Robert Duncan was a prominent Bay Area poet and public intellectual with a world audience an outspoken gay man long before there were civil rights for gays and a poet whose influence ranged from San Francisco Renaissance Beat to Black Mountain and left its mark on the new American poetry widely anthologized and discussed from the 50s through the 70s and beyond. A remarka...
Robert Duncan - Part 1
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Robert Duncan 1919-1988 Robert Duncan was a prominent Bay Area poet and public intellectual with a world audience an outspoken gay man long before there were civil rights for gays and a poet whose influence ranged from San Francisco Renaissance Beat to Black Mountain and left its mark on the new American poetry widely anthologized and discussed from the 50s through the 70s and beyond. A remarka...
Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 3
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Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 3
Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 1
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Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 1
Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 2
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Jack Gilbert and Linda Gregg - Part 2
18:00 and following on "the count". 41:40 ff. on composition by field
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Would be fun to had tripped with her.
Thanks for this awesome video.
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Beautiful and brilliant I can hear your voice from the pupil of the universe!
sound fine now thank you
came across the Pacific on a raft did they? from what's now known as Australia, some do think.. believe it or not.
How Linda starts smoking while Jack talks about their life together.
i printed a halfdozen DIY copies of Revolutionary Letters after her passing and left them around town 💙
third poem is my favourite
What pleasure I have of me in dying, what pride, Drunk on the little time left, dying and bowing my thank you’s to all, I look on the world and might topples all creation, Might of the spirit, of the heart, as a condition, a dream of immense foolishness, The dance of this old man in me, I recognize the sparrows fluttering in the dust of this spring day, astonished that they are having a bath in…dirt, I center my frailness in the might of heaven, and pivot the earth, Dismissing the stars as merely marvelous…bulk, Mightiness cords in me, forming all, shaping the street, I sing and know I sing, surpassing the amazon and the birds, To hell with vanity, it is too late for that, for one who has failed as cheaply as I have failed, I brag of what flexes in me, in my eye, in my love, I fashion the moment, I stand on my long blundering life and feel the mightiness I have become, It is I who fabricate angels, I who pass the laws of flesh, I see the world I sing so out into the emptiness, Fuck you I sing, fuck you Mr. Death, This is mightiness that watched the sparrows today.
Hi there! Could you please tell me what this event actually was? A Bay Area Writers' meeting? A presentation, etc. It's for citation purposes.
Hi! This video is my father-in-law. It's weird to see him here, considering the fact that when I actually met him he was pretty old and demented. He's obviously since passed. I "believe" it was a Bay Area writers conference, but I have no idea. I'm guessing that whatever you needed the citation for is long past due...
I was a student of Bobbie's and I miss her every day. If you knew Bobbie, you know that she trained her students to remember what people said using their exact words. So I remember exactly what she said about Duncan. Bobbie said, "Never, under any circumstances, did he stop talking."
31:12 'Beautiful Lines of Flame' poem
By “comments” I mean ramblings, often indispensable ramblings. comments on publications and collections 0:01 Childhood’s Retreat 2:17 And Hell is the Realm of God’s Self-Loathing 3:21 comments on angels in poetry 4:04 Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow 9:39 comments on the nature of the poem 10:55 The Structure of Rime (I) 13:59 The Structure of Rime (II) 15:56 comments on childhood 17:04 comments on the American experience 20:48 The Law I Love Is Major Mover 24:57 comments on the Vietnam War 28:09 comments on light, dark, body, and symphonic form 29:38 A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar (I) 34:35 (The light foot hears you and the brightness begins) A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar (II) 36:37 (This is magic. It is passionate dispersion.) A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar (III) 39:54 (Psyche’s tasks-the sorting of seeds) A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar (IV) 44:08 (Oh yes! Bless the footfall where) The Structure of Rime (XI) 48:02 (There are memories everywhere then) Food for Fire, Food for Thought 49:52 comments on the law and rights 52:25 The Law 55:59
Thanks for this Daniel.
This channel is wonderful--thank you for creating it!
Thank you for sharing this - I performed the poem, She is Wind by Diane Di Prima at Remembering Ferlinghetti event yesterday - and will write for her too ( Sacred Grounds ) Tish Camp UK
It's unfortunate that most of his work is out of print.
So fortunate to have had studied under him when he was Chair of Poetics at New College in the Mission. He is treasure.
I was wondering if I could remaster the audio on this video to help make it fuller and take away that hiss? I’d be happy to do it if you want!
My Precious Mom, So Amazing, and I have always felt So Proud of Her! She sadly passed in 2018 at the age of 87. What a Blessing She was and what a Voice She will Continue To Be!
When did they film this?! I love it. Just feels so human
1975
Diane, you were lucky to have an anarchist grandfather!
Miss you already.....thank you for your teachings
Thank you Diane 💜
Rest In Peace Diane. You did good! Your children were taught well.
Grande Leonard (c) (a) (b)
Rest or live on wildly in peace.
Applause louder than any to you!
the poetry of poets is in full effect here.....
I now write stories because of this.
No sound 👎🏼
One of the greatest unrecognized American poets. Thank you for sharing this historic film.
Great artist! !!
How very fortunate I was to have Jack as a visiting professor at Syracuse.
My mind would explode. One of the first books I bought in SF was his Refusing Heaven
They are so adorable together. They are both wonderful poets.
"Circulations of the Song After Jalal Al-Din Rumi"; Duncan mentions in his introduction that he began reading Rumi with the publication of A.J.'s Arberry's Mystical Poems of Rumi (1968).
Thank you for sharing!
Mariposa - I am a huge fan of Micheline's too. Bob Kaufman, who was a friend of Micheline's, is also an amazing poet, and vastly underrated. Check his works out if you haven't already. I'm sure it will be up your alley.
"I suppose a preoccupation of my life writing would be endlessly in terms of how relations are felt or experienced, how one person thus relates to another, how that occurs, you know, how it’s felt, how it’s imagined, how it’s experienced, and that seemingly is an endless preoccupation."
Excellent how Paul called out those rude members of his audience. Sadly how, in the current political environment, similar misbehavior occurs.
I am a poet-writer (not under this YT username), and I recently removed my short fiction -- which depict erotic happenings in the underbellies of America -- because a certain website now wants authors with content on its site to self-censor. After reading about, reading the poetry of and now viewing this video of unsung Beat poet and painter Jack Micheline, I'm going to return to that website and uncensor my Self. (And I was left in tears after listening to him perform "Rock Song" a cappella. Micheline was one of America's last troubadours, indeed.) So THANK YOU for exposing this youngun to such a gifted, beautiful, courageous man! Only last year I learned of him by finding a vintage postcard showing Jack Micheline in front of his visual art exhibit at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco. The postcard announces the exhibit from Nov. 20-23, 1975 -- including a benefit poetry reading on Nov. 22, that also featured William Everson, Faye Kicknosway, Jack Hirschman, Wayne Miller, Gail Larrick, David Plumb, Julia Vose, Paul Mariah, Jack Thibeau, Jimmy Lyons, Howard Hart, Alix McQueen, Max Schwartz, Kaye McDonough and dancer Kalli. I found that wonderful postcard at a tiny vintage shop in the historic waterfront area of Downtown Jersey City. Unfortunately, that vintage shop closed earlier this year so that yet another trendy store in my soon-to-be 100% gentrified 'hood could open in its place, a Yemeni-owned and -run Hollywood Fried Chicken joint being the last holdout. I wish you a happy autumn and leave you with my free-verse poem "Fallin' for It": Human folly Is that we grieve fallen Leaves too busy soaking in the sun, Water like wine, Wrinkling and whipping up in the wind, Their veiny faces flushed in burgundy, orange, gold, Freed and willing to be born again.
Duncan is god
He isn't...
@@dominiquebalabat197 No, he is just touched by god.
Boy are you lost...
Well, maybe Orpheus, or maybe RD. Definitely RD. This is the best recording of him I've encountered -- brings him right back into the room. An incomparable person, mind, poet. I miss him every day.
Classic Mc Clure
omg what a treat~!!! hi Diane...that was the summer I T.A.'d for you.... 76 wasn;t it or one of the summers I T.SA.d for you ---oh I want to see you, let us talk and not talk,,./..and you and I are easy friends of poetry always it is about the Work..Feel like Flint....wow!!! so good to hear about the wolf Lobo again!!!! been rereading very slowing the 1wst edition...oh you . good hearted best minded you ..one can trust You to be True...om and thank you so much,.. I needed this tonight., I need to talk,, need advice about Joanne's memorial..wish I could just come yo
Simone, were you able to reach her then? If not, sorry but health stuff narrowed things that year. As I hope you've heard by now, Diane moved onward on sunday 10/25. Best way to connect: sheppardp@earthlink.net BigLove, sheppard
"I live alone with my poetry a lot." This is where he said it.