Beat generation -- Poetry

B. L. Kennedy Beat Poets audio recordings, 1974-1993

Collection

Identifier: 1500-020

Scope and Contents

90 cassette tapes containing poetry readings from the collection of Beat-Poet B.L. Kennedy.

Dates: 1974 - 1993

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary, 1971-07-04

Item

Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.29

Scope and Contents

"Model statement in defense of the philosopher's personal freedom, as proposed to the American P.E.N. Club by San Francisco Bay Area poets, essayists, and novelist." Original statement signed by Allen Ginsberg; approved by Herb Gold, Michael McClure, Philp Whalen, Diane Di Prima, Ted Berrigan, Riobert Creeley, and Lawrencew Ferlinghetti.

Dates: 1971-07-04

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Harold Leventhal proletarian archive, 1885-1978 / Harold Leventhal proletarian archive / Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary

Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary, 1971-07-04

Item

Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.29

Scope and Contents "Model Statement in Defense of the Philosopher's Personal Freedom Proposed by San Francisco Bay Area Prose Poets' Phalanx." Poets, essayists and novelists represented: Ken Kesey, Lawrewnce Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Howard Becker, Lenore Kandel, Anais Nin, Alan Watts, Kenneth Rexroth, Diane di Prima, Philip Lamantia, Don Allen, Bill Berkson, Tom Veitch, Ted Berrigan, Margo Patterson Doss, Johbn Doss M.D., Lewis MacAdams, Gavin Arthur Paul Krassner,...

Dates: 1971-07-04

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Harold Leventhal proletarian archive, 1885-1978 / Harold Leventhal proletarian archive / Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary

Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984

Collection

Identifier: 1978-002

Scope and Contents This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...

Dates: 1960 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Press release, 1971-07-14

Item

Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.29

Scope and Contents

For release 6 PM EDT, July 14, 1971, Bastille Day. Bay Area writers appeal to Swiss government for Leary political asylum. Statement signed by Kesey, Ferlinghetti and others calls Leary fellow author without a country....

Dates: Issued: 1971-07-14