Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class discussing and reading from Russian Futurists.

Allen Ginsberg class with William Burroughs. Ginsberg begins by reading from Burroughs's work, including his book Nova Express.

Allen Ginsberg discusses "Aboriginal Poetics": the children's songs, migration songs, and funeral songs of the aboriginal population of Australia.

Allen Ginsberg class on steps of revising autobiographical poems.

First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on "Spontaneous Poetics."

First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing vividness and close observation in writing, particularly the writers who do it, including Walt Whitman, haiku, Jack Kerouac, Reznikoff, Imagists and William Carlos Williams.

First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody.

Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke.

Allen Ginsberg talks about writing techniques.

A lecture by Amiri Baraka on the politics of poetics.

Lecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania.

Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg lecture on dharma poetics…

An Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Waldman reads "Fast Speaking Woman" and other poems. Ginsberg reads "Howl" in its entirety, and other poems.

First half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977.

First half of a Bernadette Mayer class on experimental techniques in writing and other arts.

A reading of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's poetry written in English, as well as his poetry written in Tibetan and translated into English by Trungpa Rinpoche with British and American friends.

First half of an interview and performance by John Cage.

A Peter Lamborn Wilson and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading with Wilson discussing Harry Smith in a talk he calls, "Praying in darkness."

A Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on the role of the poet in interpreting archaeology, anthropology, and human pre-history.

A Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on utopian communities in America, including a 17th century community of mystics founded by Johannes Kelpius and known as The Society of the Woman in the Wilderness.

A lecture by Robert Creeley on poetry in motion.

An interview with William S. Burroughs for Loka magazine with additional commentary by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.

First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining.

First half of a class by William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing.

First half of a class with William S. Burroughs discussing various sources for writing, including dreams, voices (external and internal), and cut-up, giving examples from his own work.