Two great poets perform live sets at the famed downtown NYC venue.

9 MP3 Songs in this album (43:17) !
Related styles: SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, SPOKEN WORD: With Music



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Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a "best practice" for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's "Today" show, NPR's "All Things Considered" and Voice of America have featured segments on Glazner's work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. He is the author of "How to Make a Living as a Poet," on Soft Skull Press. Glazner produced the first National Poetry Slam in 1990, in San Francisco. Glazner is currently Managing Director of the legendary Bowery Poetry Club, (BPC).

An innovator of poets performing, John Giorno elevated Spoken Word to a high Art form. Born on December 4th, 1936, John Giorno's career spans fifty years. Giorno's work: written, performed, recorded and filmed, and presented, has been a revolution and changed the way the world views poetry.

"John Giorno raises questions to an almost unbearable pitch, to a scream of surprised recognition. His litanies from the underworld of the mind reverberate in your head and ventriloqize your own thoughts." (William Burroughs)

His book Subduing Demons In America, Selected Poems 1962-2007, will be published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press in November 2007.

His book You Got To Burn To Shine (Serpent's Tail, 1994), poems, and deeply personal memoirs, including the story of his relationship with Andy Warhol (Giorno was the star of Warhol's first film, Sleep, 1963), his anonymous sexual encounter with Keith Haring (he and Keith later became good friends); and being a Tibetan Buddhist, his understanding of death in the age of AIDS.

Giorno Poetry Systems, begun in 1965, innovated the use of technology in poetry, working with electronic and multi-media, creating new venues, and connecting poetry with new audiences. 1966-68, Giorno worked with Bob Moog, making sound compositions of his poems on the new invented Moog synthesizer.

In 1968, John Giorno created Dial-A-Poem, and innovated the use of the telephone for mass communications. Dial-A-Poem was the first time the telephone was used to communicate mass audiences. Dial-A-Poem's enormous success, receiving millions of calls, gave rise to a Dial-A-something industry, from Dial-A-Joke and Dial Sports, to phone sex, to 900 numbers. Dial-A-Poem ushered in a new era in telecommunications.

Giorno Poetry Systems released over fifty LPs and CDs of poets working with performance and music, numerous cassettes, videopaks, poetry videos, DVDs and film, books, silk-screen Poem Prints and Poem Paintings, and the Internet.

TRACKS:

GARY GLAZNER-
1. Maps And Wings
2. Jabber Wocky
3. Anyone Lives In A Pretty How Town

JOHN GIORNO-
4. Welcoming The Flowers
5. The Death of William Burroughs (excerpt 1)
6. The Death of Wiliam Burroughs (excerpt 2)
7. Just Say No To Family Values
8. There Was A Bad Tree
9. Thanx 4 Nothing