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Beats Panel Discussion & Poetry Reading Flier Image The Beats and Beyond: Counterculture Poetry, 1950-1975   •  April 21 - July 3, 2008
EXHIBITION OPENING EVENTS

To celebrate the opening of The Beats and Beyond, the Rare Book Collection hosted two events. On April 22, 2008, poets Anne Waldman and Ed Sanders read from their work at the Bull's Head Book Shop. The following day, a panel discussion on avant-garde poetry in America after World War II followed a reception in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibition Room in Wilson Library, formally opening the exhibition. The panelists were Bill Morgan (moderator), author, archivist, and collector; Robert Cantwell, professor of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill; Ed Sanders, poet, writer, and musician; and Anne Waldman, poet and Distinguished Professor of Writing and Poetics at Naropa University.

Poetry Reading by Anne Waldman & Ed Sanders  •  April 22, 2008

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Sarah Fass, exhibition curatorExhibition curator Sarah Fass introduces Anne Waldman & Ed Sanders at their poetry reading in the Bull’s Head Book Shop, April 22, 2008.

Anne Waldman, poet
Anne Waldman reading at the Bull’s Head Bookshop.

Ed Sanders, poet
Ed Sanders reading at the Bull’s Head Bookshop.

"Avant-Garde Poetry in America after Word War II"
Panel Discussion with Bill Morgan, Robert Cantwell, Ed Sanders,   Anne Waldman  •  April 23, 2008

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Charles McNamara, RBC CuratorDr. Charles McNamara, Curator of Rare Books, introducing the panel at the official exhibition opening, Wilson Library, April 23, 2008.



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The Beats and Beyond opening panel: (L-R) Bill Morgan (moderator), Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Robert Cantwell.

Ed Sanders, poet
Ed Sanders reading a poem written for the occasion of the exhibition opening. At this moment, Sanders was extolling the virtues of librarians and archivists.

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