Allen Ginsberg

Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University,October 25, 1956

1. Complete Recording (24:41): MP3
2. A Supermarket in California (2:21): MP3 [text-audio alignment]
3. In back of the real (0:44): MP3
4. Introduction to Howl (2:43): MP3
5. Howl I, II, III (18:27): MP3

1. Howl I (12:36): MP3
2. Howl II (3:30): MP3
3. Howl III ( 2:21): MP3

1. Complete Recording (53:20): MP3
2. Howl (20:06): MP3
3. Sunflower Sutra (4:31): MP3
4. Footnote to Howl (2:47): MP3
5. A Supermarket in California (2:15): MP3
6. Transcription of Organ Music (3:55): MP3
7. America (4:41): MP3
8. In Back of the Real (0:49):
9. A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley (0:46): MP3
10. Europe! Europe! (3:14): MP3
11. Kaddish, part 1 (9:50): MP3

Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, February 27, 1959

1. Complete Reading (38:55): MP3
2. Poem Rocket (4:25): MP3
3. Message from Paris (0:44): MP3
4. Squeal (1:21): MP3
5. Wrote This Last Night (1:06): MP3
6. The Lion for Real (4:14): MP3
7. To Aunt Rose (2:27): MP3
8. Ignu (6:50): MP3
9. To Lindsay (0:41): MP3
10. Kaddish (16:25): MP3

Reading Recent Poems at Robert Creeley's Home, likely 1959

1. Complete Recording (28:12): MP3
2. Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square (1:12): MP3
3. Laughing Gas, part I (4:39): MP3
4. My Sad Self (for Frank O'Hara) (3:03): MP3
5. To Aunt Rose (2:41): MP3
6. Kaddish, part I (10:23): MP3
7. Kaddish, part III (1:46): MP3
8. Kaddish, part IV (3:25): MP3
9. Kaddish, part V (1:03): MP3

1. Complete Reading (1:19:48): MP3
2. Early Poems (5:07): MP3
3. Marijuana Notation (1:03): MP3
4. The Brick Layers' Lunch Hour (1:30): MP3
5. How Come He Got Canned at the Ribbon Factory (2:25): MP3
6. Discussion of How Come He Got Canned at the Ribbon Factory (3:25): MP3
7. The Archetype Poem (1:56): MP3
8. Finally (0:43): MP3
9. My Alba (1:10): MP3
10. The Green Automobile (6:46): MP3
11. Love Poem on a Theme by Whitman (1:52): MP3
12. Song (2:44): MP3
13. Fragment 1956 (2:28): MP3
14. Howl (excerpt) (1:53): MP3
15. Transcription of Organ Music (5:01): MP3
16. Sunflower Sutra (5:28): MP3
17. In the Baggage Room at Greyhound (5:33): MP3
18. A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley (1:23): MP3
19. Psalm III (1:12): MP3
20. Tears (0:43): MP3
21. Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square (1:46): MP3
22. My Sad Self (3:23): MP3
23. To an Old Poet in Peru (3:51): MP3
24. Kaddish (excerpt) (16:45): MP3

Ginsberg singing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience

NYC, December 15, 1969

(see also: PoemTalk Podcast #4 on Ginsberg's "The Garden of Love": MP3)

1. Stanzas Written at Night in Radio City (3:15): MP3
2. Gary Snyder Reading Poesy at Princeton (2:09): MP3
3. Eclogue (18:10): MP3
4. Guru Om (4:44): MP3
5. Have You Seen This Movie? (6:19): MP3
6. Two Haikus (Milarepa Taste) (0:27): MP3
7. Hum Bom! (very early version) (1:19): MP3
8. Nothing Personal (1:16): MP3
9. Sierras Hermitage (1:02): MP3
10. Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze (7:03): MP3
11. At the Capri (1:34): MP3
12. An Open Window on Chicago (4:27): MP3
13. Elegy for Neal Cassady (5:33): MP3
14. Autumn Gold: New England Fall (7:03): MP3
15. Opium Peddling (published minus first line as "Over Laramie") (1:38): MP3
16. Howl (excerpt) (10:06): MP3

(recordings courtesy of Robert Creeley)

• Complete Recording (1:33:53): MP3

1. Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby (incomplete) (0:46): MP3
2. Various Songs (4:10): MP3
3. Feeding Them Raspberries to Grow (3:27): MP3
4. A Love Letter (by Sakaki Nanao) (2:37): MP3
5. Fake Saint (1:44): MP3
6. On His Father's Death (7:01): MP3
7. Introduction to Tiger, Tiger (1:51): MP3
8. Singing Tiger, Tiger (2:16): MP3
9. Introduction to Plutonium Ode (7:42): MP3
10. Plutonium Ode (8:56): MP3

More information on "Household Affairs" can be found here and here.

Complete Recording (48:56): MP3

Public Reading, Hudson, April 22, 1994 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

Complete Recording (1:40:35): MP3

Recorded Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC

May 4, 1995

1. Howl - I, II, III (22:37): MP3
2. Howl Epilogue (2:58): MP3

May 5, 1995

1. Introduction to Kaddish (2:40): MP3
2. Kaddish I (10:11): MP3
3. Kaddish II (36:43): MP3
4. Kaddish - Hymmnn (1:37): MP3
5. Kaddish - III (1:46): MP3
6. Kaddish - IV (2:17): MP3
7. Kaddish - V (1:57): MP3
8. William Blake's Nurse's Song (4:45): MP3

May 6, 1995

1. Wichita Vortex Sutra I (3:14): MP3
2. Wichita Vortex Sutra II (12:52): MP3
3. Wichita Vortex Sutra III (5:51): MP3
4. Wichita Vortex Sutra IV (5:41): MP3

from Kenning, Vol. 4 No. 3 Autumn/Winter 2002-2003, Issue #12

Allen Ginsberg recorded by Chris Funkhouser, 22 April 1994, Hudson, New York (Columbia-Greene Community College). The original version of "HUM BOM" appeared in The Fall of America (City Lights, 1972); this extended version was published in Cosmopolitan Greetings (Harper Collins, 1994).

HUM BOM (3:06): MP3

Reading of Various Works, Date and Location Unknown

1. Wales Visitation (11:32): MP3
2. Wichita Vortex Sutra (28:00): MP3

PoemTalk Podcast #4, discussing Ginsberg's "The Garden of Love," March 4, 2008

Extra:

• Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Mead discuss the orgin of the term "Beat": MP3
• HUM BOM - Allen Ginsberg recorded by Chris Funkhouser, 22 April 1994, Hudson, New York
• In Conversation with Robert Creeley, Buffalo, October 1978 (1:53:29): MP3

For Other Allen Ginsberg Recordings and Information:

• the Allen Ginsberg Project
• AllenGinsberg.Org

Allen Ginsberg on PennSound Daily

• February 11, 2011: "Allen Ginsberg: Newly Segmented Reading, Intersection for the Arts, 1971"
• August 28, 2009: "Allen Ginsberg: Several New Recordings From the Creeley Archives"
• June 19, 2009: "Allen Ginsberg: New Recordings Courtesy of Robert Creeley"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author's estate. Used with the permission of the Allen Ginsberg Trust. © 2006 Estate of Allen Ginsberg. Distributed by PennSound.