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
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

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

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)

Reading at The Intersection, San Francisco, August, 1971

• part one (48:21): MP3
• part two (13:58): MP3
•       (please note: the end of the recording is cut off)
• part three (10:03): MP3
• Howl (excerpt): (10:06): MP3
•       (please note: the end of this recording is cut off as well)
• (recordings courtesy of Robert Creeley)

Complete Recording (48:56): 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

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:

• Ginsberg Audio Page at Allen Ginsberg Trust
• AllenGinsberg.Org

Allen Ginsberg on PennSound Daily

• March 4, 2008: "PoemTalk #4: Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake"

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.