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Cloud House Poetry Archives
The Cloud House Poetry Archives is distinguished from any other by the comprehensive depth of its audiovisual collection and the high fidelity of its field recordings. It is a week-by-week, month-by-month, and decade-by-decade living record of the avant-garde practice of poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area. It represents entire communities of poets and affiliated artists that we identify as the “poet genome” of Northern California/Pacific Rim.
If you are looking west, find here a real Kosmos of 10,000 hours of recorded poets/poetry.
The project now before us is to establish in real space the San Francisco POETMUSEUM Research Center, a cultural laboratory and time machine of the recorded expression of San Francisco Bay Area poets from 1948 to the present. It will conduct cultural archaeology and display essential research on the minute particulars and interrelations of the post depression/post war “New American Poetry”. Here the muses will be rediscovered as we explore with original recordings the poetic DNA and breakthroughs of our poet subjects contextualized to their time & place, related to specific locales and habitats through mixed media exhibitions which focus and envelop the senses on the immediacy of poetic experience.
Our mission is to preserve and transmit the “poetic genius” of all the diverse and yet undiscovered San Francisco Bay Area Renaissances.
Our experimental and operational paradigm for this museum is Upper Paleolithic Cave Art, the sites of Chauvet, Lascaux, and Altamira. We are acting on Rimbaud’s May 15, 1871 letter of the Voyant. We welcome young researchers, scholars and poets to participate in our endeavor.
As the actor/writer Peter Coyote said, “for Kush, poets are his Yosemite—the representatives of pure ‘wildness’ of mind, an imperiled geography which he has taken as a personal mission to correct.”
William Blake Breathes Here as we open Golgonooza the eternal city of the imagination where all the artists who ever lived are now alive creating their essential works. Emily Dickinson & Gertrude Stein Breathe Here as we are a real sanctuary for those called to the endless study/perception/exercise of unique poetry. Walt Whitman Breathes Here as we invite you to join our adventure, our gang of Kosmos.
Contact us via: beginsberg@gmail.com
Reading from Let's Burn the Flags of All Nations at Woodstock Town Hall, November 10, 2018
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Simone White Reading for the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, Presented by Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA, June 1, 2014
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Read the full text of Simone White's speech "Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, with Divya Victor." [via XPoetics]
Divya Victor Reading for the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, Presented by Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA, June 1, 2014
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Read the full text of Divya Victor's speech "Cicadas in the Mouth." [via XPoetics]
Petah Coyne, Third Annual Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture at Small Press Traffic Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, June 23, 2013
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Edited by Coyne and used with her permission.
Etel Adnan Homage Reading, December 11, 2012, The Green Arcade Books Ideas Goods
Homage to Etel Adnan Co-sponsored with The Poetry Center and Small Press Traffic, a book party with contributors to the Post-Apollo Press anthology Homage to Etel Adnan, edited by Steve Dickison, Lindsey Boldt and Samantha Giles
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Joan Retallack Reading for The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics, Presented by Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, May 27, 2011
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Leslie Scalapino Production of Flow-Winged Crocodile, Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, CA, December 21, 2010
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Charles Bernstein Reading at San Francisco State, May 12, 2010
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Bruce Andrews Reading, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco State Poetry Center, March 20, 2010
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Leslie Scalapino Final Reading, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco State Poetry Center, March 20, 2010
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Robin Blaser in conversation with Robert Hass, UC Berkeley, November 5, 2008
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Carolyn Cassady and Son John Guitar at the Beat Museum, San Francisco, December 30, 2006
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Jack Hirschman Poet Laureate Inaugural Address, San Francisco Main Public Library, May 4, 2006
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John Ashbery Reading as part of the Lunch Poems Series, UC Berkeley, April 8, 2001
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Ed Dorn Memorial Tribute, San Francisco, February 17, 2000
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John Ashbery reading at the San Francisco Art Institute (organized with Small Press Traffic), introduction by Bill Berkson, January 26, 1998
Jewish Ground Ceremony, February 6, 1996
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Writing Environs, February 6, 1996
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Last Public Reading, November 17, 1995
Eigner reads from Gertrude Stein's Three Lives at the 1995 Gertrude Stein Marathon, Berkeley, curated by Lyn Hejinian. Read Kush's account, and Stein's text, here.
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- Complete recording (11:39): MP3
Goya's L.A., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, February 25, 1995
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- Leslie Scalapino, Text
- Carla Harryman, Director
- Amy Tratchenberg, Artistic Director
- Larry Ochs, Musician/Composer
- Mikio Hirata, Michelle Rollman, Rebecca Levi, Pamela Norris, Actors
Camerawork/Production: Kush* Cloud House Field Unit
Post Production: San Francisco POETMUSEUM
Also of Interest:
Adrienne Rich Reading at San Francisco State, September 9, 2006
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Dennis and Barbara Tedlock, Zuni: Sacred Healing Transmission Ethnopoetics from the "Poetics of Healing" symposium, UCSF Poetry Center, December 3, 2009
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John Wieners reading in San Francisco, March 25, 1990
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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2014 Kush Cloud House.
Used with the permission of the The Cloud House Poetry Archives. Distributed by PennSound.
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