Two More Gigs for Habib from Morocco

El Habib Louai is charming the people of Seattle who see his almost constant smile, hear his translations of Ginsberg into Arabic and enjoy his energetic and deeply perceptive look at USAmerican culture during his first visit to this country. He has two more...

Good Haibun/Bad Haibun Mayday Living Room

We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam...

Living Room, February 15, w/ Paul Nelson

OPEN BOOKS If we don’t read one another who do we ever read and if we don’t read one another who can we expect to read us? and if we don’t read one another and if we don’t read why bother writing these lines so deep in our faces that take so...

Jack Kerouac School in Trouble

Message from Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman Dear Community & Friends of the Jack Kerouac School: Lisa Birman and I are writing to you from the Summer Writing Program Office.  We know that the Naropa environment has suffered because of the recent downsizing of Naropa...