Fraser...

at work in the Williams Burroughs Gray Room (my office!) digitizing Kathleen Fraser's lecture "The Uncontainable" given at Naropa July 5, 1996...

"what does it mean to listen through existing written forms?"

about an hour ago finished digitizing a workshop led by Joanne Kyger (Fall 92')...an extenuation of her "Beat And Other Rebel Angels" lecture series...the final talk was all about Gary Snyder and in true Kyger fashion filled with amazing anecdotal factoids...i took a class with Kyger a couple Summer's back...Kyger's teaching method is pretty amazing..."workshop" is definitly a misnomer...we were looking at Lew Welch that day, Kyger pulls pages and pages of notes out of her tote bag...and without delay begins reading...reading verbatim from her notes, at once cogent and off the cuff, well researched and talky as only Joanne can be...the only workshoping that goes on in a Kyger class is the student's attempt at taking down/in everything she is saying...

...woke up this morning to snow...which immediately put me in a good mood...snow does that to me...you?


...currently listening to Kathleen Fraser "The Uncontainable"