Video - Beat Thing! in Gamla Stan Stockholm

Ann and Samuel Charters visited us on September 8 2011 at the English Bookshop in Gamla Stan Stockholm and held the first of two performances  of Beat Thing! – a performance/reading of Beat literature with the assistance of Björn Lundqvist on the bass. Christer from the bookshop presented.

The program was:

1. Beat Thing Looms Up by David Meltzer
2. Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3. Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
4. Mad Sonnet 13 for Allen Ginsberg by Michael McClure
5. Revolutionary Letter #3 by Diane di Prima
6. Stereo by Anne Waldman
7. Hymn by Jack Kerouac
8. Haiku/American Pops by Jack Kerouac
9. The Day Lady Died by Frank O'Hara
10. I went into the Maverick Bar by Gary Snyder