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Joanne Kyger

Photo by Allen Ginsberg, Nara, Japan, June 1963

Bio Notes & Publications

Online Works

Poetry

from Night Palace
Night Palace
from God Never Dies: Poems from Oaxaca
Here in Oaxaca it's the Night of the Radishes
from The Distressed Look
Buddhism Without A Book
Sunday in the Storm Era
Ten New Lovely Unpublished Poems from the website of Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek
Philip Whalen's Hat from Jacket 11
Your Heart is Fine from Woodland Pattern Book Center
September from PoemHunter
Man from Jacket 11
fromJust Space: poems, 1979-1989
You know when you write poetry you find
Influences in Poetry
Morning is such a welcome time. It doesn't demand
Oh man is the highest type of animal existing
from The Wonderful Focus of You
Marian Lopez Calixto's Story
from All This Every Day
Tuesday, October 28
October 28, Take It Easier
October 29, Wednesday
Earlier
from Joanne
from Places To Go
Places to go (excerpt)
Descartes And The Splendor Of (excerpt)
from The Tapestry and The Web
The Maze

E-books

Permission By The Horns from Ungovernable Press
Loose Renditions from Coyote's Journal

Audio and Video

Joanne Kyger at PennSound
18 Poems with text and MP3 audio of each at WJ Ray's "What Is Poetry" page
Reading at the Beat Generation Symposium at Columbia College Chicago, October 10, 2008
Reading at Small Press Distribution Open House, April 12, 2008 at A Voice Box
Reading at University of Califonia Berkeley, August 21, 2007
Reading at University of Maine, November 9, 2000

from Strange Big Moon:The Japan and India Journals 1960-64

April 11. 1962. (letter to Nemi Frost)

Other Writings

Buzz Time from Buzz Gallery, Big Bridge #9

Interviews

Interview with Joanne Kyger by Trevor Carolan at Pacific Rim Review of Books
Interview with Joanne Kyger by Simon Pettet at The Argotist Online

Photographs

Photograph from Elsa's Housebook by Elsa Dorfman
Photograph, Almora, India, March 1962 from Allen Ginsberg: Renowned Poet - World Traveler
Photograph, with Gary Snyder, Kyoto, Japan, Spring 1963 from Allen Ginsberg: Renowned Poet - World Traveler

About the Author

Joanne Kyger at Wikipedia
To Be Jack Spicer in a Dream: Joanne Kyger and the San Francisco Renaissance, 1957-65 by Linda Russo
Joanne Kyger feature from Jacket 11
from "Joanne Kyger" by Joanne Kyger
from Joanne Kyger's Poetry by Alice Notley
from e-mail to Linda Russo by Ron Silliman
Review of As Ever by Dale Smith from Bookslut
Review of Strange Big Moon: The Japan & India Journals: 1960-64 by Linda Russo from Big Bridge #7
Joanne Kyger Papers 1950–2009 in the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California San Diego

Works reprinted with the kind permission of Joanne Kyger, Alice Notley and Ron Silliman.
Page edited by Linda Russo, May 1999. Updated June 2011, research and new poems selected by Hailey Higdon, HTML/CSS by Jack Krick.

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