Film: Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds
Thursday, 18 Feb 1982 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
One strain of the American poetic tradition is examined through the work, personalities, and antics of the summer faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, where there is a reunion of the "beat generation" greats, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, and Timothy Leary. their concern about contemporary American problems is also shown through a poetry reading at an anti-nuclear demonstration.Part of the National Affairs Series
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