“American Cycle” - 4 podcasts featuring Larry Beckett performing excerpts from the poems that comprise American Cycle. Available beginning September 30th, 2021
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S01 E01 From the American Cycle
Episode 1 is drawn from his 2021 appearance at “Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance.” Introduction by poet, critic and longtime journalist Paul Wilner.
https://rss.com/podcasts/americancycle/284670/
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S01 E02 U. S. Rivers: Highway 1
This episode of American Cycle features Beckett performing “U. S. Rivers: Highway 1” in a recording studio in 2011. The episode is introduced by Dr. Simon Warner, author of Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture, editor of Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack
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S01 E03 Paul Bunyan
Episode 3 features Larry’s 1984 performance of “Paul Bunyan” and is introduced by Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation and Beat Blues: San Francisco, 1955.
S01 E04 Wyatt Earp
Episode 4 features Larry’s 2014 performance of “Wyatt Earp” and is introduced by Marc Zegans, Long-Term New York and San Francisco Poetry Brothel Poetry Whore, author of The Book of Clouds and The Snow Dead.