All Poets Welcome

The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s

Daniel Kane

Playlist for Compact Disc

1. Denise Levertov, "O Taste and See" (0:47)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, March 20, 1967

2. Paul Blackburn, "Clickety-Clack" (3:00)

Brooklyn Civic Center, Brooklyn, New York, May 22, 1964

3. Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos, excerpt from "Phoneme Dance in Memoriam John Cage" (4:00)

From the compact disc Open Secrets (XI 110), Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 1993

4. David Antin, "Who Are My Friends" (3:07)

Café Le Metro, New York City, September 1, 1965

5. Jerome Rothenberg, "A Valentine, No, a Valedictory for Gertrude Stein" (0:23)

Café Le Metro, New York City, September 1, 1965

6. Armand Schwerner, selection from "The Tablets" (5:06)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, April 6, 1966

7. Clayton Eshleman, "Notebook Entry 1968" (3:03)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, March 4, 1968

8. Robert Creeley, "The Charm," "A STEP," and "KATE'S" (1:30)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 17, 1967

9. Robert Kelly, Troubadour text, translated by Robert Kelly (0:42)

Café Cino, New York City, 1960

10. John Wieners, "Poem for Cocksuckers" (1:08)

Café Le Metro, New York City, 1963

11. Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (2:44)

Pacifica Studios, Berkeley, California, Oct 25, 1956. From the compact disc Holy Soul Jelly Roll, Rhino Records, 1994

12. Amiri Baraka, "A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand" (1:10)

Poetry Society of America, New York City, December 26, 1963

13. John Ashbery, "They Dream Only of America" (1:07)

Washington Square Gallery, New York City, August 23, 1964

14. John Ashbery, "Thoughts of a Young Girl" (0:40)

Washington Square Gallery, New York City, August 23, 1964

15. Frank O'Hara, "Naphtha" (1:45)

State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964

16. Frank O'Hara, "Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)" (0:44)

State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964

17. Kenneth Koch, "To My Audience" (2:24)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, January 10, 1968

18. Bill Berkson, "I Feel Free" (1:14)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 29, 1969

19. Bill Berkson, "Poem" (0:41)

Read over phone, November 2000

20. Ron Padgett, "Detach Invading" (1:05)

Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975

21. Ron Padgett, "Joe Brainard's Painting 'Bingo'" (1:05)

Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975

22. Ron Padgett, "Nothing in That Drawer" (0:29)

Originally taped on "Susan Howe with Poetry" radio show, WBAI, New York, June 17, 1975

23. Joe Brainard, selection from I Remember (1:13)

Venue and date unknown

24. Dick Gallup, "Where I Hang My Hat" (0:33)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, September 27, 1967

25. Lorenzo Thomas, "Five Leaf Clover" (1:07)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, May 16, 2001

26. Anne Waldman, "Poem in New York" (1:04)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, November 8, 1967

27. Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, selection from "Memorial Day" (4:55)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, Memorial Day, 1974

28. Ted Berrigan, "Sonnet I," "Sonnet II," "Sonnet III," and "A Final Sonnet" (3:37)

St. Mark's Church, New York City, 1968

29. Clark Coolidge, "Machinations Calcite" (2:06)

Franconia College, Franconia, New Hampshire, circa 1971

30. Alice Notley, "How to Really Get an Apartment" (0:48)

University of California, San Diego, April 25, 1989

31. Joe Ceravolo, "A Song of Autumn" (0:54)

Recorded at Ceravolo's home, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Spring 1968

32. Joe Ceravolo, "Drunken Winter" (0:23)

Recorded at Ceravolo's home, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Spring 1968

33. Bernadette Mayer, "Sonnet—You Jerk, You Didn't Call Me Up" and "Warren Finney" (2:02)

University of California, San Diego, November 15, 1989

34. Bernadette Mayer, "Sonnet—Other Than What's Gone On in Stupid Art" (0:52)

University of California, San Diego, November 15, 1989