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Poet’s Apprentice Book Five
Available September 30, 2023 Poet’s Apprentice: Book Five: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics 1984-May 1991: Roark, Randy, Kaufman, Bruce: 9798860612068: Amazon.com: Books Continue Reading »
Poet’s Apprentice Book Four
Available June 18, 2023 Poet’s Apprentice: Book Four: At the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics 1982-1983: Roark, Randy: 9798390191576: Amazon.com: Books Continue Reading »
Poet’s Apprentice Book Three
Available March 5, 2023 Amazon.com: Poet’s Apprentice: Book Three: At the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics: 9798509591952: Roark, Randy, Meier, Brigid: Books Continue Reading »
Poet’s Apprentice Book Two
Available July 11, 2022 Poet’s Apprentice: Book Two: At the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics March-December 1980: Roark, Randy: 9798801453149: Amazon.com: Books Continue Reading »
Poet’s Apprentice Book One
Available December 20, 2021 Amazon.com: Poet’s Apprentice: Book One: At the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics: January-March 1980: 9798784241917: Roark, Randy: Books Continue Reading »
Interview with Emily Rivera, Giant Steps Press, May 11th 2021, about Poet’s Apprentice
Video link: https://youtu.be/evkFWb956Ks Emily Rivera: Hello, everyone, welcome back to Giant Steps Press Goes Zoom. My name is Emily Rivera, and today we have with us Randy Roark, the author of Poet’s Apprentice. Later, we’ll have a reading from this book by Randy himself along with an interview. Thank you for joining us today, Randy…. Continue Reading »
Allen Ginsberg’s Annotations to Tom Clark’s “The Great Naropa Poetry Wars,” March 1980
One of my last projects as Allen Ginsberg’s apprentice was secretarying his attempt to correct errors in Tom Clark’s attack on Naropa Institute in 1980. We ran out of time and his literary executor and I cannot find an instance of it being published in any form. These are the first eleven pages. Here’s a… Continue Reading »
Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan: Excerpted from miscellaneous classroom lectures and interviews, 1974-1993
Allen Ginsberg on Bob DylanExcerpts from interviews and lectures 1974-1993 Transcribed and compiled for AG by Randy Roark, August 1993 Introductory Note: In 1993, I transcribed 10 hours of interviews between Allen Ginsberg and Hal Willner, producer of the box-set “Holy Soul Jelly Roll.” I edited this down to 87 pages and submitted it and… Continue Reading »
Background Information for Sleepless Nights Show–Nouvelle Chanson Francois–October 9, 2019
Sometimes You’re Lucky, Sometimes You’re Not Nouvelle ChansonAn Anthology 1997-2009 Randy Roark Cover Photo #s 1-12: Anna TernheimCover Photo #s 13-24: Emily LoizeauCover Photo #s 25-36: Anja GarbarekCover Photo #s 37-50: Emilie Simon Published by Laocoon Press in a limited edition of 50 and distributed for free to friends and others on the occasion of… Continue Reading »
TEDx Talk, Mindfulness as a Means of Self Discovery
Berkeley Lake ParkDenver, CO. September 22, 2019 Produced by Passport to Mindfulness I was asked to give the opening talk at a mindfulness retreat for the parents of the children who were off doing other stuff. Mindfulness as a Means of Self Discovery First I’d like to acknowledge Lauren and Ahva and Jason and Drew… Continue Reading »