addendum...

wow! that was a really great talk...

...Graverholz was as gossipy as i'd hoped he would be...

...lot's about Billy Burrougs Jr.
...lot's about the infamous Rinpoche/ Merwin incident...i need to get ahold of Tom Clark's The Great Naropa Poetry Wars...

lot's about the infamous Boulderado Hotel...prostitutes, boozers, Alan Davies editing magazines from Le Bar downstairs (now the corner bar...where i go to work on my thesis...how romantic...)

"if you wanted to see a bunch of intellectuals drunk in the middle of the afternoon Le Bar under the Boulderado was the place to go..."
—James Graverholz

...also, where the half Brazilian half Jewish girl was staying...

lot's about Liquor Mart in its earliest days...

"where can i buy a 40 in this town...oh yeah Liquor Mart?!"
—James Graverholz

some names: John Steinbeck Jr. (yes THE Steinbeck's son), Margaret Kearney, Jim Jarmusch, Anne Waldman et al./ their relationship with Naropa in general and Billy Burroughs in specific...

...currently listening to Steve Benson over at Penn Sound...interrogative reading...ha, you like that? worked my new favorite word in...

"can everyone hear me/ can you hear my shirt ruffling"
—Steve Benson