1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story

Summary:

Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Website:

http://www.archive.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

The Naropa Archive Project is funded in part by the NEH, NEA, Save America's Treasures, the Grammy Foundation, and listeners like you. Email us at: archive@naropa.edu

Timely on:

April: poetry month

Tones:

Intimate, Light-hearted, Personal

Language:

English

Description:

Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a long time collaborator, participant, writer, performer, singer (can't say enough about her)of Beat era literature. Her personal involvement with many of the figures of this influential group of writers and artists is reflected in her storytelling. Her one-woman performances will remind you of Spaulding Grey, and audiences respond warmly to her incisive, wide ranging, intelligent personal style.

This piece is from Naropa University Archive's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics collection.

Allen Ginsberg founded the Kerouac School, a writing program, in 1974, and for 30 years he brought a group of counter culture writers, artists and thinkers to Boulder for a Summer Program. Naropa's Audio Archive is digitizing 2000 hours of readings, lectures and panel discussions, several hundred hours of which is available for free at www.archive.org. Click through 'audio' to 'naropa' and browse.

The piece has never been broadcast - you will be among the first to make this rare recording available to listeners.

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