Poems & Presentations - Audio Selections

Blues & Haikus, Part One, with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims (Hanover Records), recorded circa Spring 1958. (16:00)

Blues & Haikus, Part Two, with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims (Hanover Records), recorded circa Spring 1958. (14:08)

"Is There a Beat Generation?," Forum sponsored by Brandeis University, Hunter College Playhouse, 11/6/1958. (12:00)

Poems (Fragments): "San Francisco," "Street Scene," "Money Honey," "Westinghouse Elevators," "Old Age," "Praised Be Man," recorded May 13, 1959 (Verve Records, 1960). (3:17)

"Lucien Midnight," Parts One & Two (Verve Records, 1960), recorded May 13, 1959. (4:21)

"Fantasy: The Early History of Bop" (Verve Records, 1960), recorded May 13, 1959. (10:53)

"The Beat Generation," recorded May 13, 1959 (Verve Records, 1960) (3:09)

Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody, Steve Allen Plymouth Show, NBC, 11/16/1959. (3:30)

A Reading from Kerouac’s “On the Road: The Original Scroll,” by John Ventimiglia.

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Hilary Holladay, Director,  Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies at UMass Lowell

Paul Marion, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Outreach at  UMass Lowell 

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