Wednesday Open Microphone Session
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
20-3-1974 12:00 PM
End Date
20-3-1974 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 20, 1974, as part of the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference: “City Lights in North Dakota,” Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Michael McClure take part in an open microphone session, in which they discuss energy conservation. Before the discussion, Miriam Patchen reads some poetry by her husband, Kenneth Patchen, including “Let Us Have Madness Openly,” “When in the Course of Human Events,” “It is For Us the Living,” “Joe Hill Listens to the Praying,” “He Thought of Mad Ellen’s Ravings and of the Wretched Skeleton on the Rock, Fall of the Evening Star,” “The Queer Client and the Forest-Inn,” “The Fox,” “Irkallas White Caves,” “We Go Out Into the Staring Town,” “She Knows it’s Raining,” “Delighted with Bluepink,” “When We Were Here Together,” and “O Now the Drenched Land Awakes.” In addition, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Michael McClure discuss energy conservation.
Streaming Media
Wednesday Open Microphone Session
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 20, 1974, as part of the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference: “City Lights in North Dakota,” Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Michael McClure take part in an open microphone session, in which they discuss energy conservation. Before the discussion, Miriam Patchen reads some poetry by her husband, Kenneth Patchen, including “Let Us Have Madness Openly,” “When in the Course of Human Events,” “It is For Us the Living,” “Joe Hill Listens to the Praying,” “He Thought of Mad Ellen’s Ravings and of the Wretched Skeleton on the Rock, Fall of the Evening Star,” “The Queer Client and the Forest-Inn,” “The Fox,” “Irkallas White Caves,” “We Go Out Into the Staring Town,” “She Knows it’s Raining,” “Delighted with Bluepink,” “When We Were Here Together,” and “O Now the Drenched Land Awakes.” In addition, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Michael McClure discuss energy conservation.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1974/day3/3
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