1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
From: Naropa University
Length: 00:06:55
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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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Posted on April 11, 2005 at 09:30 AM | Permalink
Review of 1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
This piece is part of a series on Beat Poets and it would work well if a station ran several of these pieces as part of a special during April poetry month. I don't always like writers reading their own work but Bobbie Louise Hawkins' voice as well as her writing really draws you in. She's a good storyteller with a textured voice. This is also a live reading and a couple times you hear the audience responding. That could be distracting to listeners. I don't know if this is something that a station can run as a standalone without some prep. She's not as well known as Allen Ginsberg but with the proper intro and as part of a series, it could be a real plus.