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Upcoming
Michael McClure’s poetry collection, Persian Pony, has just been published by Ekstasis Editions. He’s in British Columbia this week for a reading and performance.
Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
7:30pm
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre
515 Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC Canada
FREE EVENT — more info
Poetry and Jazz Performance
Saturday, October 21, 2017
7:30pm
w/musicians Carol Ann Sokoloff & Patrick Boyle
The Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St
Victoria, BC Canada
info & tickets: EkstasisEditions.com
Group Spirit with Toni Basil & Michael McClure
Related Exhibition Bruce Conner, Part of Bruce Conner: I AM/I AM NOT
SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103
details & tickets:
https://www.sfmoma.org/event/group-spirit-toni-basil-and-michael-mcclure/
AND onward…
Mephistos and Other Poems
Celebrating the release of his book of new poetry
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE
261 Columbus at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
free event, details: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100617090&fa=events
MOE’S BOOKS
2476 Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, CA
free event, for more info: (510) 849-2087
DIESEL BOOKS
5433 College Ave
Oakland, CA
free event, for more info: (510) 653-9965 events@dieselbookstore.com
MICHAEL McCLURE &
GEORGE BROOKS on sax
FREE CONCERT – POETRY & JAZZ
Sunday, June 7, 2015
12 pm – 12:50 pm
The Brower Center, in Goldman Theatre
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Past News
MICHAEL McCLURE: FREE VERSEIF YOU’RE IN MINNEAPOLIS ON MAY DAY, JOIN US AT THE WALKER ART CENTER!
May 1, 2014, 7pm
Walker Art Center
Free tickets available Join us for a May Day extravaganza as poet Michael McClure unleashes a mighty roar! A central figure of the Beat Generation, he has enchanted audiences through his poetry, plays, and performances for nearly six decades and has collaborated with artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Ray Manzarek. McClure’s poetry is heavily infused with an awareness of nature, especially the animal consciousness that lies dormant in mankind. Don’t miss this special event with a living legend. Free Verse is co-presented by Rain Taxi Review of Books. |
GHOST TANTRAS
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GHOST TANTRAS published by City Lights
McClure’s inspiration has always been the animal consciousness that still lives in mankind, and he has had a consistent message: “When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal.” Ghost Tantras is his original and singular manifesto for a poetry that relies not on images and pictures, but on muscular, sensual, energetic sound. Purchase Ghost Tantras here. |
YOU are cordially invited to the
Opening Party and Screening
BERKELEY VIDEO AND FILM FESTIVAL
EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER
1939 Addison Street
Friday Oct 25th PARTY starts at 6:15 pm
RSVP: amy@amyevansmcclure.com
SCREENING starts at 7:15 pm PURCHASE TICKETS EARLY
Seating is limited in this lovely, intimate theatre
ABSTRACT ALCHEMIST OF FLESH, a 55-minute documentary of the poetry and life and adventures with lions of MICHAEL McCLURE — with cameos by Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper, Peter Coyote, Ray Manzarek and others, directed and filmed by Colin Still, BBC filmmaker. ONE NIGHT AT THE ARISTO, based on a story by WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, by prize-winning British director and filmmaker, Nic Saunders. For any who are desperate for recent Andy Warhol gossip, a ten-minute film, THE PARTY IN TAYLOR MEAD’S KITCHEN by Jeffrey Wengrofsy. At 9:20 pm, the evening will close with the four-minute art film MOMENT OF THE MAKING featuring the painted sculpture of Amy Evans McClure, a film by San Francisco’s Jesse Block. |
Rob Wasserman • Michael McClure • Jay LaneNew Music!Thursday, September 12th • 8:00 p.m.Sweetwater Music Hall19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941
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PERFORMANCE:George Brooks, saxophoneMichael McClure, poetryRob Wasserman, bassJazz and Poetry performanceFriday, July 26, 20132 sets: 6:30 pm & 7:45 pmdeYoung Museum of San Franciscocurrently showing: Richard Diebenkorn, The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 |
1st ANNUAL
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THE BIG MIX |
A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old church, features both new and older poems, with McClure’s words and Manzarek’s jazz piano.
The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco was released on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. It’s available both as a CD and as an MP3 download. See below for a link to listen to tracks. The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco – CD (at Oglio Records)
The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco – Listen to tracks / Buy MP3 or CD (Amazon) |
The JazzSchool of BerkeleyIs Offering a Rare Workshop byGEORGE Jazz & Poetry: The Craft of CollaborationSATURDAY, JULY 7th, 2012, 3:15 pmThe JazzSchool – 2087 Addison St. Berkeley, CAThis workshop offers an opportunity for musicians and poets to explore the long, rich history of music and spoken word with the guidance of Beat poet / playwright Michael McClure and saxophonist/composer George Brooks. They will perform examples from their work together and encourage participants to perform together during the workshop. Bring your instruments and poems.
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If you happen to be in Los Angeles next week . . .
October 20, 2011 – Thursday, 7:30 PMMICHAEL McCLURE
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Tuesday, August 30
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Wednesday, August 10
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Saturday, August 13
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Two seminal poets and dear friends spend an evening reading
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MICHAEL McCLURE: Reading & Signing
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The Holloway Series in Poetry at UC Berkeley Presents:MICHAEL McCLUREwith Elizabeth Marie YoungTuesday, October 14at 6:30 p.m. MICHAEL McCLURE is a Bay Area countercultural icon whose numerous works include Dark Brown, Ghost Tantras (which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo), the play The Beard, albums with Ray Manzarek, one-time pianist with the Doors, and with Terry Riley, a repubication of The Booobus and the Bunnyduck, a 1957 children’s book made with the artist Jess, and, most recently, a collection of poems called Rain Mirror. ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG This summer, Elizabeth Marie Young’s full-length book, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (it will come out in 2009), and Omahrahu Prss published a chapbook of her Sonnets. She is finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature in Berkeley, and will join the Classical Studies Department at Wellesley College in January. |
MICHAEL McCLURE
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“REBEL ROAR:
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BIG MIX:Michael McClure,
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MICHAEL McCLURE and LOU ROWANThursday · MARCH 6, 2008 · 7:30 p.m. LOU ROWAN, editor of the stunning review GOLDEN HANDCUFFS, reads from MY LAST DAYS, his freshly published, fabulous, and scurrilous autobiography of Superman. Poet & playwright MICHAEL McCLURE reads from new manuscripts of MYSTERIOSOS, and MUSHROOM MOUNTAINS; and growls beast language poems from GHOST TANTRAS. * * * light, life, grahhrr… * * * |
DIANE di PRIMA & MICHAEL McCLURE
A POETRY READING
MONDAY JULY 9th 7:30pm
MOE’S BOOKS
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![]() Something of India: A Time Morph by Michael McClure with Glimmers of India: Clay Canvases by Amy Evans McClure has just been published at BIG BRIDGE. |
![]() Composer Terry Riley and Michael McClure are wrapping up a CD of poems from PLUM STONES and from Michael’s “beast language” poems in GHOST TANTRAS. It will be released in Spring 2004. Terry Riley will star at the San Francisco Jazz Festival when the Kronos Quartet performs the premiere of his new piece SUN RINGS. October 24 & 25. |
The Fall 2003 issue of Threepenny Review features Michael McClure’s “Seven Things About Kenneth Rexroth.” It’s available from The Threepenny Review, P.O. Box 9131, Berkeley, California 94709. Price is $7 + $5 shipping. Or, check your local bookstore. |
Michael McClure’s “Suite for John Ashbery” has been published in SAL MIMEO #3.
SAL MIMEO is available from Larry Fagin, 437 E 12th St. #18, New York, NY, 10009 |
Rod Phillips’ book, MICHAEL McCLURE, has just been published by Boise State University, as the latest in their Western Writers Series. This critical exploration of Michael McClure’s oeuvre includes biographical information & context interwoven through Phillips’ thoughtful examinations of McClure’s books.
Phillips is also the author of FOREST BEATNIKS & URBAN THOREAUS. |
Michael McClure’s new collection of poems, PLUM STONES: CARTOONS OF NO HEAVEN was reviewed by John Aiello in the August issue of the online magazine, The Electric Review. |
Love Her Madly DVDRay’s movie, Love Her Madly, has just been released on DVD! |
The Doors 21st Century
We’ve gathered a few recent reviews of The Doors concerts:
Wallingford, Connecticut Chicago, Illinois |
The Doors 21st CenturyCurrently there are a number of concerts sheduled for 2003. You can click on any of the venue names for more information.
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