Naropa University Free Lectures

First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining.

Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke.

A Peter Lamborn Wilson lecture on the role of the poet in interpreting archaeology, anthropology, and human pre-history.

An interview with William S. Burroughs for Loka magazine with additional commentary by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.

First half of a class by William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing.

A lecture by Amiri Baraka on the politics of poetics.

A lecture by Robert Creeley on poetry in motion.

Allen Ginsberg discusses "Aboriginal Poetics": the children's songs, migration songs, and funeral songs of the aboriginal population of Australia.

Lecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania.

First half of an interview and performance by John Cage.