Tony Seymour Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

Business Number: 858-534-2533

Fax Number: 858-534-5950

spcoll@ucsd.edu

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Descriptive Summary

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

Title: Tony Seymour Papers

Creator: Seymour, Tony, 1951-

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0749

Physical Description: 7.6 Linear feet (18 archives boxes, 1 card file box)

Physical Description: 1.97 GB of digital files

Date (inclusive): 1965-2006

Abstract: Papers of poet Tony Seymour (1951- ), a contemporary San Francisco-based poet and performance artist. The collection contains writings, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and recordings related to Seymour's life and literary career.

Languages: English .

Biography

William Anthony "Tony" Seymour was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951. Seymour attended the University of New Mexico and the University of Hawaii, and graduated with a B.A. in Communications.

A key event in Seymour's life was meeting Beat poet Bob Kaufman while working in the publicity department at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Kaufman's life and work significantly influenced Seymour, who studied his poetry and interviewed him over a three year period. In 1976 Seymour initiated a "wave of publicity" for Kaufman with publications in California Living Magazine, The Berkeley Bard, Players Magazine and the Black Panthers Party Newsletter. Following Kaufman's death in 1986, Seymour organized a Bob Kaufman Day event at City Hall in San Francisco. Performers included Tony Seymour, Richie Havens, Ken Kesey, Jack Micheline, Marty Matz, Joie Cook and other artists.

During the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, Seymour combined freelance journalism with poetry writing and research. He conducted interviews with jazz composer Sun Ra, his friend and musician Richie Havens, and the spiritual leader Baba Ram Dass. Seymour's recordings of No Gods to Guide, No Herds to Follow: Bob Kaufman's Street-Bop-Zen includes an introduction by author Ken Kesey and features interviews by Kesey, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Jack Hirschman and Kunugh Stiles.

In 1997, Seymour self-published his collected works Poems for Another Time. Evolution of a Soul. The Collected Works of Tony Seymour. Excerpts from his collected works are also featured in Godzilla Verses Swan Blake, a dramatic poetry play collaboration with the poet and artist Blake More.

Tony Seymour currently lives in Hawaii.

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of poet Tony Seymour (1951- ), a contemporary San Francisco-based poet and performance artist. The collection contains writings, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and recordings related to Seymour's life and literary career. Also included are materials related to his mentor, San Francisco Beat poet Bob Kaufman.

Arranged in six series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) BOB KAUFMAN, 5), POETRY EVENTS & MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, and 6) AUDIOVISUAL & DIGITAL MATERIALS.

Preferred Citation

Tony Seymour Papers. MSS 749. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

OFF-SITE STORAGE

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Restrictions

Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies may be available for researchers.

Digital Content

The collection contains digital files described in the container list.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century

Seymour, Tony, 1951- -- Archives

Kaufman, Bob -- Archives

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: Includes resumes, photographs, drawings and juvenilia that document Seymour's life and career.

Box 1, Folder 1

Biographical notes, clippings, business cards undated

Box 1, Folder 2

Junior high and high school memorabilia 1960-1969

Box 1, Folder 3

Juvenilia 1964 and undated

Box 1, Folder 4

Memorabilia of Tony Seymour's father, Reginald Seymour 1969

Box 1, Folder 5

Movie and television resume, Tony Seymour's work as an extra 1989-1993

General note

Includes photo stills of Tony Seymour on Nash Bridges and other productions.

Box 1, Folder 6

Resume 1973, 2004

Box 1, Folder 7

University of New Mexico memorabilia 1972

Box 1, Folder 8-15

Photographs 1963-2004

General note

Includes photographs of Tony Seymour and various family pictures, biological mother, biological father, Bob Kaufman, Eileen Kaufman, Richie Havens, and others.

Box 1, Folder 16

Pre-eye surgery drawings by Tony Seymour

Box 1, Folder 17

Post-eye surgery drawings by Tony Seymour

Box 1, Folder 18

Miscellaneous drawings by Tony Seymour

Box 1, Folder 19

Drawing of Tony Seymour by Stuart Jackson

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Includes correspondence with poets, collaborators, and people associated with San Francisco's art, music and poetry scenes. Some notable correspondents are Eileen Kaufman, Richie Havens, Blake More, and Trudy Morse. Also included are letters and emails exchanged between Seymour and Rob Melton, the Archive for New Poetry curator regarding Seymour's archive and career.

Box 1, Folder 20

Anderson, T.J. 2002

Box 1, Folder 21

Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley 1986-2000

Box 1, Folder 22

Beagle, Dorothy Jesse 2000-2002

Box 1, Folder 23

Benicia Herald re: poetry event 2002

Box 1, Folder 24

Bennett, Charles 2002-2003

Box 2, Folder 1

Best of San Francisco (Michelle Boleyn) 2001

Box 2, Folder 2

Brown, Sean (KOIT) 2002

Box 2, Folder 3

Buck, Marilyn 2002

General note

Includes signed poems.

Box 2, Folder 4

Feinstein, Dianne 1988

General note

Letter from San Francisco mayor re: Bob Kaufman Day Event.

Box 2, Folder 5

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1975 August 8

General note

Letter to Tony Seymour signed by Ferlinghetti.

Box 2, Folder 6

Fitton, Barry 2001

Box 2, Folder 7

Garchik, Leah (San Francisco Chronicle) 2001-2004

Box 2, Folder 8

Greg (?) 2001

Box 2, Folder 9

Grier, Geoffrey 2004

Box 2, Folder 10

Hackett, Philip (Poetry at the San Francisco Press Club) 1987-1991

Box 2, Folder 11

Havens, Richie 2000-2003

Box 2, Folder 12

Kaufman, Eileen 1988

Box 2, Folder 13

Lawrence, Sharon (Jimi Hendrix' former publicist) and Denise Enck (Empty Mirror Books) 2002-2003

Box 2, Folder 14

McFadden, Bill undated

Box 2, Folder 15

Melton, Rob 2012-2013

General note

Correspondence with Archive for New Poetry curator regarding archive; includes significant reflections by Seymour on his body of work.

Box 2, Folder 16

Mike and Dale's Younger Poets 1998

Box 2, Folder 17-21

More, Blake 2000-2003

General note

Re: poetry play Godzilla Verses Swan Blake.

Box 3, Folder 1-3

Morse, Trudy 2000-2002

Box 3, Folder 4

Neibaum-Coppola poetry event 2000 February

General note

Letter to Francis Ford Coppola about a poet who was removed from event.

Box 3, Folder 5

Oakland East Bay Symphony 2003

General note

Words and Music Project.

Box 3, Folder 6

Poetry Flash (Joyce Jenkins) 1998

Box 3, Folder 7

Polos, Eugenia 1985-1987

Box 3, Folder 8

Rolling Stone Magazine 1976-1977

General note

Regarding Bob Kaufman story.

Box 3, Folder 9

Sinclair, John 2001-2002

Box 3, Folder 10

Valentine's Day card 1990 February 14

General note

Handmade card by Seymour.

Box 3, Folder 11

Zander, Angela 1987 November 3

General note

Middle school student; her letter is in the Introduction of Collected Works.

Box 3, Folder 12

Draft letters to "Leslie at Channel 7"

General note

Regarding Beatitude poetry reading.

Box 3, Folder 13

New Orleans trip correspondence

Box 3, Folder 14

Letters to French, Soviet, Chinese and Philippine Embassies

Box 3, Folder 15

Correspondence relating to eviction notice

Box 3, Folder 16

Genealogy research and correspondence relating to Seymour's family

Box 3, Folder 17

Draft letters by T.S. to Def Poetry Slam

Box 3, Folder 18

Miscellaneous correspondence

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS. Arranged in five subseries: A) Collected Poems, B) Poems, C) Early Writings, Essays and Notes, D) Collaborations and E) Writings by Others.

A) Collected Poems: Includes mostly typescript drafts of Seymour's poetry included in his collected works, Poems for Another Time. Evolution of a Soul. The Collected Works of Tony Seymour, which he self-published in 1997. The arrangement is in original order and reflects the author's personal and philosophical concept of history and evolution in his poetry. Also included is a listing of Seymour's poem titles and title changes.

B) Poems: Arranged alphabetically by title. Original handwritten and typescript drafts of Seymour's published and unpublished poems.

C) Early Writings, Essays and Notes: Includes early poetry notebooks, notes, college papers and essays, some with commentary by one of Seymour's college professors at the University of New Mexico, noted poet and teacher Gene Frumkin. Also included are drafts of various articles and essays, notes for The Missing Link from Howl to Woodstock, and transcripts of interviews with Ritchie Havens and Michael White.

D) Collaborations: Drafts of full and one-hour versions of Godzilla Verses Swan Blake, a poetry play featuring Tony Seymour and Blake More, promotional flyers, programs and reviews. Also included is a typescript draft of The Aluminum Chronicles, Seymour's collaboration with Suzzanne Dell.

E) Writings by Others: Published and unpublished typescript drafts of various poets' work including poems by authors of note such as Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline and George Tsongas.

Collected Poems

Box 4, Folder 1-7

Poems for Another Time. Evolution of a Soul. Collected Works of Tony Seymour

General note

Drafts of collected works. Includes copies of letter from Baba Ram Dass, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ritchie Havens.

Box 5, Folder 1-10

Poems for Another Time. Evolution of a Soul. Collected Works of Tony Seymour

General note

Drafts of collected works. Folder 4 includes a listing of titles, and in some cases title changes, to reflect the author's concept and order sequence of the poems.

Poems

Box 6, Folder 1

1st Generation Used a Ton of Drugs

Box 6, Folder 2

1st Take on Numbers

Box 6, Folder 3

The 4th of July Tapes

Box 6, Folder 4

7 Days to Thirty

Box 6, Folder 5

The 35th Year

Box 6, Folder 6

37th Hour

Box 6, Folder 7

1563 A.D. Salem, Massachusetts

Box 6, Folder 8

1975

Box 6, Folder 9

1983 NYC Shelter Story

Box 6, Folder 10

1984 1/2

Box 6, Folder 11

2000 A.D. A Retrospective

Box 6, Folder 12

& the High is Strictly Puritanical

Box 6, Folder 13

& They Said "It Was Just a Passing Fad"

Box 6, Folder 14

Absolved

Box 6, Folder 15

The Adoption Lie

Box 6, Folder 16

Advice to the New Generation

Box 6, Folder 17

After Awhile

Box 6, Folder 18

After I Died

Box 6, Folder 19

After the Vision

Box 6, Folder 20

Ain't Strugglin'

Box 6, Folder 21

Albinism

Box 6, Folder 22

All in the Name of Allah

Box 6, Folder 23

All My Ideals

Box 6, Folder 24

All Nervous

Box 6, Folder 25

All the Earth's Pollution

Box 6, Folder 26

All or Nothing

Box 6, Folder 27

All Punk Rock Mothers

Box 6, Folder 28

All These Years

Box 6, Folder 29

All the Wars Have Been Lost

Box 6, Folder 30

Alternate Lyrics for Ben E. King's "Let the Good Times Roll"

Box 6, Folder 31

Alternate Lyrics to "America the Beautiful"

Box 6, Folder 32

America

Box 6, Folder 33

America: A Statistical Poem

Box 6, Folder 34

America in Reverse

Box 6, Folder 35

America Needs

Box 6, Folder 36

America They Suckered You In…

Box 6, Folder 37

American Dichotomy

Box 6, Folder 38

American Prisoner of War Camps

Box 6, Folder 39

Anesthetized Mings

Box 6, Folder 40

Angelic Footprints

Box 6, Folder 41

Angels of Life

Box 6, Folder 42

Approaching 34

Box 6, Folder 43

Arbitrary Titles

Box 6, Folder 44

Arguing With You Doesn't Bother Me At All

Box 6, Folder 45

Atomic Religion

Box 6, Folder 46

Avowed Nazis

Box 6, Folder 47

Away From Politics

Box 6, Folder 48

Axis

Box 6, Folder 49

Baby Be Like Vodka Don't Leave No Trace

Box 6, Folder 50

Baby Must Be a Rocket Ship

Box 6, Folder 51

Back in the 1430's

Box 6, Folder 52

Back Trackin' Highs

Box 6, Folder 53

Baffle the Intelligence

Box 6, Folder 54

Baghdad Chronicles

General note

Typescript broadside and handwritten notes.

Box 6, Folder 55

Bamboo Shoes

Box 6, Folder 56

Basic Design

General note

Pyramid poem and notes.

Box 6, Folder 57

Beat ladies

Box 6, Folder 58

The Beatles Worked for the KGB

Box 6, Folder 59

The Beatnik Graveyard

Box 6, Folder 60

The Beats are Slowly Dying

Box 6, Folder 61

Been Writing Since…

Box 6, Folder 62

Bein' Born Birth (Inside the Maternity Ward -1951 A.D.)

Box 6, Folder 63

Being a Minority is an Act and Ethnic Dust mop

Box 6, Folder 64

The Best

Box 6, Folder 65

Bikini Madness Machine

General note

Broadside and handwritten draft.

Box 6, Folder 66

Bill Casey's Suspicious Death

Box 6, Folder 67

Billions of Epochs

Box 6, Folder 68

Birthday Poem

Box 6, Folder 69

Bitch Wars on 14 Mile Road

Box 6, Folder 70

Bitter Forest, For Sharon Lawrence

Box 6, Folder 71

The Black Festival Down by the River

Box 6, Folder 72

Black and White Genes

Box 6, Folder 73

The Blind

Box 6, Folder 74

Bliss Kiss

Box 6, Folder 75

Blow a Redneck Mind

Box 6, Folder 76

Blown to the Bone

Box 6, Folder 77

Bob Kaufman's Words from the Afterlife

Box 6, Folder 78

Bob's Still Dead?

Box 6, Folder 79

Bomb Hits

Box 6, Folder 80

Bomb them with…

General note

Unpublished typescript drafts and handwritten notes. Includes email to Secretary of State and Liaison Office reply.

Box 6, Folder 81

Bombed beyond Belief

Box 6, Folder 82

Bought You

Box 6, Folder 83

The Box

Box 6, Folder 84

Brain Vacation

Box 6, Folder 85

Bridging the Generations

Box 6, Folder 86

Broadway (?) or (Not) Understanding

Box 6, Folder 87

Broadway Whores

Box 6, Folder 88

Broken China Doll

Box 6, Folder 89

Bush Lies

Box 6, Folder 90

By the Hour

Box 6, Folder 91

Caps and Gowns

Box 6, Folder 92

Casted Out

Box 6, Folder 93

Cat and Mouse

Box 6, Folder 94

Cataclysmic Orgasmic

Box 6, Folder 95

Charlene

Box 6, Folder 96

Change of the Light Brigade

Box 6, Folder 97

Charoq

Box 6, Folder 98

Chernobyl

Box 6, Folder 99

Chi-Chi Club

General note

Fictionalized advertisement.

Box 7, Folder 1

Chill Factor

Box 7, Folder 2

Chinese Tune-In

Box 7, Folder 3

Church

Box 7, Folder 4

CIA Child Play

General note

Disguised, draft on verso.

Box 7, Folder 5

The City

Box 7, Folder 6

The City's Under Siege

Box 7, Folder 7

Clinton poems and President Blew it

Box 7, Folder 8

Clouds in Our Rooms

Box 7, Folder 9

C.O.D.

Box 7, Folder 10

Come & Stay or Go Away

Box 7, Folder 11

Come to CG

Box 7, Folder 12

Comments on People's Temple/Albino Theory

Box 7, Folder 13

The Competition's Gone ("Bankchock Jack")

Box 7, Folder 14

Constant Light Gets in the Way

Box 7, Folder 15

Cornwhisky Huslin'

Box 7, Folder 16

The Coroner's Report

Box 7, Folder 17

The Court is a Crook/Who's Prints

Box 7, Folder 18

Courtroom Suppression

Box 7, Folder 19

Crowd Jousled

Box 7, Folder 20

Crumble in My Own Bones

Box 7, Folder 21

Crumbled Strategist Straddle

Box 7, Folder 22

Cuss Out of a Fat Girl

Box 7, Folder 23

Damaged Lyin' by the Dampened Fires of the Gypsies

Box 7, Folder 24

Dancers

Box 7, Folder 25

Dark Matter Search

Box 7, Folder 26

Days Pass, I Feel You in My Life

General note

I Feel You in My Life, draft on verso.

Box 7, Folder 27

Dead Bee

Box 7, Folder 28

Dead Brave of Live Slave

Box 7, Folder 29

Dead War Brides

Box 7, Folder 30

Dear George Bush (1st draft), An Open Letter from Osama (2nd draft)

Box 7, Folder 31

Dear Jack Hirschman, letter/poem

General note

Soap Opera's, draft on verso.

Box 7, Folder 32

Dear Mr. Pope

Box 7, Folder 33

Dear Muslim Martyr

Box 7, Folder 34

Dear Ronald Reagan

Box 7, Folder 35

Dear United Nations; and ?United Nations?

Box 7, Folder 36

Defect from the Suburbs!

Box 7, Folder 37

Democratic Ideas

Box 7, Folder 38

Denial

Box 7, Folder 39

Departure Poems, Pt. I-III

Box 7, Folder 40

Depends Upon Belief

Box 7, Folder 41

Detroit Motto Do Not Finch and Inch!

Box 7, Folder 42

Detroit's Master Metals Smelter Stories

Box 7, Folder 43

Devastate Your Stateroom

Box 7, Folder 44

Devour You in a Month of Sundays

Box 7, Folder 45

Dialogue of Self to Mind

Box 7, Folder 46

Diary of a Mad Hotel

Box 7, Folder 47

Didn't Know

Box 7, Folder 48

Diplomat's Daughter

Box 7, Folder 49

Dirth Bleached Night Sagas

Box 7, Folder 50

Distrust

Box 7, Folder 51

Dog V.D.

Box 7, Folder 52

Don't Be Fooled

Box 7, Folder 53

Don't Call Collect

Box 7, Folder 54

Don't Care

Box 7, Folder 55

Don't Care, So Many Promises, Eugenia and Divorce the Planet

Box 7, Folder 56

Don't Fall into the Nigger Trap

Box 7, Folder 57

Draconian Time

Box 7, Folder 58

Dream Awakener

Box 7, Folder 59

Dream Reports

Box 7, Folder 60

Drop the Bomb

Box 7, Folder 61

DSL

Box 7, Folder 62

Dubious Warrior Techniques

Box 7, Folder 63

During Their Lifetime

Box 7, Folder 64

Easter 93

Box 7, Folder 65

Easter 2003

Box 7, Folder 66

Easter Sunday

Box 7, Folder 67

Election Poem

Box 7, Folder 68

End of the Cold War

Box 7, Folder 69

End of Mind Rumors

Box 7, Folder 70

Enrico's

General note

Typescript draft of poem plus menu from restaurant.

Box 7, Folder 71

Entella Hotel

Box 7, Folder 72

Ericka, Hawaii '73 (From the Sidelines)

Box 7, Folder 73

Ericka Pt. I and II

Box 7, Folder 74

Eucalyptus

Box 7, Folder 75

Eugenia

Box 7, Folder 76

Eugenia

Box 7, Folder 77

Eugenia (Veranda)

Box 7, Folder 78

Even Flies Got Class

Box 7, Folder 79

Everyone Should Fuck on National T.V.

Box 7, Folder 80

Everything Applies

Box 7, Folder 81

Everything Going Past Me

Box 7, Folder 82

The Fable

Box 7, Folder 83

Faith

Box 7, Folder 84

Fake God People Culture Vultures

Box 7, Folder 85

Fall 1975 (Chameleon of Self)

Box 7, Folder 86

Falling in on a Master Funk

Box 7, Folder 87

Famous Corpse

Box 7, Folder 88

Famous Last Words

Box 7, Folder 89

Far-Distant Future

Box 7, Folder 90

Feel Like I'm Gonna Die

Box 7, Folder 91

Final Choice

Box 7, Folder 92

Fireside Chats (8 Letter Crossword)

Box 7, Folder 93

The First Breath

Box 7, Folder 94

First Light (Commentary after eye reconstructive surgery)

Box 7, Folder 95

First Love

Box 7, Folder 96

The Flip Side: The Shoes on the Other Foot in the Alternate Universe, 1492-1992

Box 7, Folder 97

Flyin' Rocks

Box 7, Folder 98

For Jack Hirschman, and Gorbachev to Reagan

Box 7, Folder 99

Forgive Me This Time

Box 7, Folder 100

Fortune is a Foregone Conclusion

Box 7, Folder 101

Freedom to Think We Be Voting

Box 7, Folder 102

Freight Train, and Somnambulist Dreams

Box 7, Folder 103

From Rome

Box 7, Folder 104

From the Sidelines

Box 7, Folder 105

Fuck

Box 7, Folder 106

Full Moon

Box 7, Folder 107

Further Religion

Box 7, Folder 108

The Future

Box 8, Folder 1

Game

Box 8, Folder 2

Games

Box 8, Folder 3

Gangs

Box 8, Folder 4

Gang Wars

Box 8, Folder 5

Gave Up

Box 8, Folder 6

Gayle, and Before the Act

Box 8, Folder 7

Gentle

Box 8, Folder 8

Gentle Exclamations and Wanderlust Serendipity

Box 8, Folder 9

Gentle Persuasion (Attempts to Persuade)

General note

Under title Shores of Antiquity in Collected Works.

Box 8, Folder 10

George Bush is Al Qaeda's Top Recruiter

Box 8, Folder 11

George Bush Provides

Box 8, Folder 12

George Jackson

Box 8, Folder 13

Ghost

Box 8, Folder 14

Ghost Dust & TV Tombstones

Box 8, Folder 15

Give Away

Box 8, Folder 16

Give Back to the Country

Box 8, Folder 17

Give Up the Job for Gambling

Box 8, Folder 18

Gladiators/Statue of Liberty

Box 8, Folder 19

Glass Cathedral in the Sky

Box 8, Folder 20

God Will Find You

Box 8, Folder 21

Going Going… Gone

Box 8, Folder 22

Good Thing

Box 8, Folder 23

G.O.P. Defined/One Room School House

Box 8, Folder 24

Gorbachev to Reagan

Box 8, Folder 25

The Graveyard Generation

Box 8, Folder 26

Groupie's

Box 8, Folder 27

Guideline for the Year 2000

Box 8, Folder 28

Guidelines

Box 8, Folder 29

Guilty!

Box 8, Folder 30

Gypsy Sue

Box 8, Folder 31

Had Problems with O Rings

Box 8, Folder 32

The Harlem Highway

Box 8, Folder 33

Heart Hijacker

Box 8, Folder 34

Heaven is Overcrowded

Box 8, Folder 35

Henry Ford Imported Slaves

Box 8, Folder 36

Her Place is Her Space

Box 8, Folder 37

Here!!

Box 8, Folder 38

Here & There

Box 8, Folder 39

Here's a Thought

Box 8, Folder 40

Hieroglyphics

Box 8, Folder 41

High Contra(st)

Box 8, Folder 42

High Kook Haiku - God is Everywhere

Box 8, Folder 43

A High Tech Biodegradable Society Which Left No Trace

Box 8, Folder 44

Hindu Extremist

Box 8, Folder 45

Hints! (Broadway)

Box 8, Folder 46

Histories Graveyard!

General note

Includes email correspondence with Dorothy Jesse Beagle and handwritten notes, October 3, 2001.

Box 8, Folder 47

Hittin' Up (The Inside View) or Up on the Roof on Top of Broadway

Box 8, Folder 48

Hope

Box 8, Folder 49

Horse Gods

Box 8, Folder 50

How & Why it is the Way it Is

Box 8, Folder 51

How do You Fuck An Angel

Box 8, Folder 52

How to Write Differently

Box 8, Folder 53

I Ain't Got No Respect for You Either

Box 8, Folder 54

I Am the Family Secret

Box 8, Folder 55

I Can't Go Outside to Play

Box 8, Folder 56

I Envy Myself

Box 8, Folder 57

I Have Witnessed the Fallen Eagle

Box 8, Folder 58

I Know What I Want to Feel

Box 8, Folder 59

I Love This Bitch So Badly

Box 8, Folder 60

I Think Therefore I Am Descartes

Box 8, Folder 61

I Was A Teen Aged Negro!

Box 8, Folder 62

Ice Blue Secret Eyes, Peace Loving Punks

Box 8, Folder 63

Iceland Summit

Box 8, Folder 64

Idiots (On the Planet Today)

Box 8, Folder 65

If Faith Was

Box 8, Folder 66

If I Knew My Mom Was White

Box 8, Folder 67

If I Was a Muslim Child

Box 8, Folder 68

If New Matter is Manufactured

Box 8, Folder 69

If This is Love, Like Me

Box 8, Folder 70

I'm a Distant Negro

Box 8, Folder 71

Imaginary

Box 8, Folder 72

Immunity from the Pain of Love

Box 8, Folder 73

Improvement Dissertations

Box 8, Folder 74

In The Fall the Leaves Don't Collect... ("Doc. 23")

Box 8, Folder 75

In Mere Time

Box 8, Folder 76

In the Caves of the Sun

Box 8, Folder 77

In the Meanwhile

Box 8, Folder 78

In the Parlour They Stood

Box 8, Folder 79

Indians and Immigrants

Box 8, Folder 80

The Industrial Revolution

Box 8, Folder 81

Infinity

Box 8, Folder 82

Innocent Always

Box 8, Folder 83

Insult Instant Result

Box 8, Folder 84

Intentional Distribution

Box 8, Folder 85

Intergration [Integration]

Box 8, Folder 86

International Intelligence Game

Box 8, Folder 87

International Warming Warning

Box 8, Folder 88

Intrigue

Box 8, Folder 89

Intro to Space Ship

Box 8, Folder 90

Invasion of Privacy

Box 8, Folder 91

Invisible Gypsies!!

Box 8, Folder 92

Irons in the Brain

Box 8, Folder 93

It's on!!

Box 9, Folder 1

Jammin' the Jelly

Box 9, Folder 2

Jammin' the Judges

Box 9, Folder 3

Jazz & Laughter; CIA Department Listings (on verso)

Box 9, Folder 4

Jazzrhythmic Pterodactyl Wings

Box 9, Folder 5

Judge Alvin Davenport

Box 9, Folder 6

Julie Krone Poem

Box 9, Folder 7

Just a Visit or Do You Remember When?

Box 9, Folder 8

Just Another Nigga

Box 9, Folder 9

Just Harassment

Box 9, Folder 10

Kaufman Would Not Talk

Box 9, Folder 11

Kerouac, Kesey & Kaufman

Box 9, Folder 12

Kill

Box 9, Folder 13

Killer Narc Bitches or North Beach

Box 9, Folder 14

Lack of Faith

Box 9, Folder 15

The Last Laugh

Box 9, Folder 16

Last Match!! Last Cigarette in the Pack!!

Box 9, Folder 17

Late Night in Paradise

Box 9, Folder 18

Law is a Vacuum

Box 9, Folder 19

Laws

Box 9, Folder 20

Lawyers

Box 9, Folder 21

Leave it to the Hands of Allah

Box 9, Folder 22

Leslie Nassan poems

Box 9, Folder 23

Let Me Simplify

Box 9, Folder 24

Letters to Scientist/Chernobyl Poem

Box 9, Folder 25

Liars are Stupid People

Box 9, Folder 26

Lice Story, NYC Shelter Story

Box 9, Folder 27

Lighthouse and untitled poem

Box 9, Folder 28

Living on the Streets

Box 9, Folder 29

Lone Nuts

Box 9, Folder 30

Lorena

Box 9, Folder 31

The Lost Hope

Box 9, Folder 32

Love Drips From Your Lips

Box 9, Folder 33

Love Ya!!

Box 9, Folder 34

Love Your Touch Pts. I & II

Box 9, Folder 35

Low As You Can Go

Box 9, Folder 36

Luftwaffe Granpapa

Box 9, Folder 37

Makes Me a Descendant

Box 9, Folder 38

Malicious Bitches

Box 9, Folder 39

Man on the Move

Box 9, Folder 40

Mankind's Mistake

Box 9, Folder 41

Marilyn Merlot

Box 9, Folder 42

Marooned

Box 9, Folder 43

Marriage Song Pt. III

Box 9, Folder 44

Marry Me Dammit!

Box 9, Folder 45

Maui Weed

Box 9, Folder 46

Memo Part II: Can't Blame it on the Plumber

Box 9, Folder 47

Memo: To Ex-President Ronald Reagan

Box 9, Folder 48

Memo to NYC

Box 9, Folder 49

Middle Eastern Sequence to Events

Box 9, Folder 50

The Mindfields

Box 9, Folder 51

Miracle

Box 9, Folder 52

The Mirror

Box 9, Folder 53

Mobile Bandaid

Box 9, Folder 54

Mohawk

Box 9, Folder 55

Moment Sun Pt. II: A Book of Lyrics Accompaniment to Keystone Korner Live Tape

Box 9, Folder 56

A Month in the City

Box 9, Folder 57

Moonwalk

General note

Includes draft of Where's the Outrage.

Box 9, Folder 58

More People

Box 9, Folder 59

Morning Drifts

Box 9, Folder 60

The Murders? Oh That's Just the Past

Box 9, Folder 61

My Baby [Bitch] Must be a Rocket Ship

Box 9, Folder 62

My Ethnicity, Arkansas Shooting

Box 9, Folder 63

My First Job

Box 9, Folder 64

My Lawyer Died

Box 9, Folder 65

My Muse

Box 9, Folder 66

My Resolve (To Myself)

Box 9, Folder 67

Myriad, Multi Feeling

Box 9, Folder 68

Nagasaki Night

Box 9, Folder 69

Nana's

Box 9, Folder 70

N.A.S.A.

Box 9, Folder 71

Nature of Politics

Box 9, Folder 72-74

Nerve Damage

Box 9, Folder 75

Never Discuss with a Poet/Instruction Manual

Box 9, Folder 76

Never Was a Deadhead

Box 9, Folder 77

Never Was One

Box 9, Folder 78

New Culture

Box 9, Folder 79

New York

Box 9, Folder 80

Newest Self Identity 1999 April 28

Box 9, Folder 81

News Blackout

General note

Broadside under pseudonym "Charoq."

Box 9, Folder 82

Nights (Los Noches de Esperanza), Taste You, and Mutual Vows

Box 9, Folder 83

No Babies in the 80's

Box 9, Folder 84

No Complaints

Box 9, Folder 85

No I Am Paranoid

Box 9, Folder 86

No Thief is Ever a Success

Box 9, Folder 87

Non Approach

Box 9, Folder 88

Non Billionaire

Box 9, Folder 89

North Beach Fair

Box 9, Folder 90

Not the Mona Lisa

Box 9, Folder 91

Note to Jack Hirschman

Box 9, Folder 92

Nothing Goes Wrong

Box 9, Folder 93

Now That I Need You

Box 9, Folder 94

Numbers/Integration

Box 10, Folder 1

Obsessional Exceptional Borderline Stories of O

Box 10, Folder 2

Ode to Castrate Street

Box 10, Folder 3

Ode to Cigarettes

Box 10, Folder 4

Ode to Father/Who Died

Box 10, Folder 5

Ode to the Sun/Sunstress

Box 10, Folder 6

Oh No!

Box 10, Folder 7

The Oklahoma Thing

Box 10, Folder 8

On Broadway

Box 10, Folder 9

On the Rebound

Box 10, Folder 10

On the Rocks

Box 10, Folder 11

Once Upon a (Life) Time

Box 10, Folder 12

Only in America/Only in Detroit

Box 10, Folder 13

Only to Lose You

Box 10, Folder 14

Opening to Worlds Blinded to the Self for Eons

Box 10, Folder 15

Oriental Wayward Station

Box 10, Folder 16

Origin of Bogart

Box 10, Folder 17

Origin of Prayer

Box 10, Folder 18

Origin of the "N" Word

Box 10, Folder 19

Outside the Monastery

Box 10, Folder 20

Own Protection

Box 10, Folder 21

Oxygen Tubes

Box 10, Folder 22

Pagoda Mischief

Box 10, Folder 23

Pamella

Box 10, Folder 24

Panther Poem

Box 10, Folder 25

Paranoid

Box 10, Folder 26

Part 2

Box 10, Folder 27

The Passing Sounds

Box 10, Folder 28

Pay Heed

Box 10, Folder 29

Peace Treaty

Box 10, Folder 30

People So Busy Prayin'

Box 10, Folder 31

People Worry About My History

Box 10, Folder 32

Perhaps/Cold Crack

Box 10, Folder 33

Pervert, and Devastate Your Stateroom

Box 10, Folder 34

Picture in Enrico's

Box 10, Folder 35

Pimpin' Pimple Butt

Box 10, Folder 36

Pimps Need Women to Push

Box 10, Folder 37

Pinky

Box 10, Folder 38

Politically Correct

Box 10, Folder 39

Politics is Reactionary. Creating Nothing New

Box 10, Folder 40

The Politics of Chernobyl

Box 10, Folder 41

Poppin Fresh

Box 10, Folder 42

Porcelain Doll

Box 10, Folder 43

Porno Ad for the Playboy Channel

Box 10, Folder 44

Post 35 Agenda

Box 10, Folder 45

Post Valentine's Day Telegram

Box 10, Folder 46

Poverty of My Generation

Box 10, Folder 47

Prelude No. 1

Box 10, Folder 48

Prelude to Chernobyl

Box 10, Folder 49

The Pressure

Box 10, Folder 50

Pretender to the Throne

Box 10, Folder 51

The Problem

Box 10, Folder 52

Problem with Courts/Christian Science

Box 10, Folder 53

Problem with Infinity

Box 10, Folder 54

Progressive Party

Box 10, Folder 55

Prolific Profiles Provide

Box 10, Folder 56

Promilitary

Box 10, Folder 57

Promises/When She Sleeps

Box 10, Folder 58

Protest This

General note

Includes email correspondence with Veronica Raymonda, September 25, 2001.

Box 10, Folder 59

Pt. II

Box 10, Folder 60

Pt. VII of a Trilogy

Box 10, Folder 61

Public Safety Note

Box 10, Folder 62

Pull Closer, or A State of Consciousness

Box 10, Folder 63

The Punishment Fits the Crime

Box 10, Folder 64

Pussy Final Meal

Box 10, Folder 65

Pyramid Remnants

Box 10, Folder 66

The Race Card has a Stacked Deck

Box 10, Folder 67

Racism without the Color (If Ireland Were America)

Box 10, Folder 68

Ram

Box 10, Folder 69

Rama is Karma Free

Box 10, Folder 70

Rare & Pink

Box 10, Folder 71

Raw Data

Box 10, Folder 72

Raw Light

Box 10, Folder 73

Raw Truth Pt. 1-3 (The History of Money 1971-1986)

Box 10, Folder 74

Reagan on Our Side

Box 10, Folder 75

Reconvert You (The Solution)

Box 10, Folder 76

Red Wombs

Box 10, Folder 77

Reek Public Cans

Box 10, Folder 78

Regina

Box 10, Folder 79

Reincarnate

Box 10, Folder 80

Religion

Box 10, Folder 81

Remember

Box 10, Folder 82

Remember Bosco?

Box 10, Folder 83

Remembering Birth

Box 10, Folder 84

Remote Outback

Box 10, Folder 85

Remove Troops from Sensimilla Pot Fields

Box 10, Folder 86

Repression Backfires

Box 10, Folder 87

The Reputation Distorters (Epilogue to Chernobyl)

Box 10, Folder 88

The Request Line

Box 10, Folder 89

Re/solution 1985

Box 10, Folder 90

The Return Ride

Box 10, Folder 91

Revelations 1981 A.D.

Box 10, Folder 92

Righteous in Blake Nation

Box 10, Folder 93

Robbed from Within

Box 10, Folder 94

Romeo's Reply

Box 10, Folder 95

Royal Rialto

Box 10, Folder 96

Russia As Enemy

Box 11, Folder 1

Salem Summit Council

Box 11, Folder 2

Same Latitude Pacific Atoll & Coast of Peru

Box 11, Folder 3

Samoa

Box 11, Folder 4

San Francisco is Odd

Box 11, Folder 5

Say Spirit Walk Talker

Box 11, Folder 6

The Scariest Thought of All

Box 11, Folder 7

Search is Over

Box 11, Folder 8

Self Improvement Desertation [Dissertations]

Box 11, Folder 9

September

Box 11, Folder 10

September's Dawn

Box 11, Folder 11

Shannon

Box 11, Folder 12

Sharing the Same Mind

Box 11, Folder 13

Sharna

Box 11, Folder 14

Shot Buddha

Box 11, Folder 15

Should I Succumb

Box 11, Folder 16

Shroud of Turin

Box 11, Folder 17

Shuttle Flight News Blackout

Box 11, Folder 18

Shy Exhibitionist

Box 11, Folder 19

Siddharthian Journey Through Music

Box 11, Folder 20

The Silent Majority

Box 11, Folder 21

The Skeletal Void

Box 11, Folder 22

Snoop Dog Poem

Box 11, Folder 23

So Many Promises

Box 11, Folder 24

So Tenuous

Box 11, Folder 25

So You of All Have Deceived

Box 11, Folder 26

Soap Opera's

Box 11, Folder 27

Soap Opera's Pt. II

Box 11, Folder 28

Sob Stories

Box 11, Folder 29

Social Progress

Box 11, Folder 30

Solar Winds Powered Desert Sands Which Blasted the Sun

Box 11, Folder 31

Solutions (How to Stop the Ku Klux Klan in Contra Costa County)

Box 11, Folder 32

Something I Don't Want to See

Box 11, Folder 33

Somnambulist Dreams

Box 11, Folder 34

Sonic Dictionary and Sonic Poems

General note

Includes handwritten notes for "We Tried."

Box 11, Folder 35

Soon We'll Be Here

Box 11, Folder 36

Sophisticated Ladies

Box 11, Folder 37

Soul Triumph Tears

Box 11, Folder 38

Soviet Sacrifice Chernobyl for Greater Goals

Box 11, Folder 39

The Space Program

Box 11, Folder 40

Spacewalk

Box 11, Folder 41

Spare Light?

Box 11, Folder 42

The Spotlight

Box 11, Folder 43

Spun Out Mafia Speed

Box 11, Folder 44

Square is a Square (Still)

Box 11, Folder 45

Squeezed

Box 11, Folder 46

Star Formation

Box 11, Folder 47

Starting to Act

Box 11, Folder 48

Statistical Poem

Box 11, Folder 49

Stealth Bomber Love

Box 11, Folder 50

Stoic Indians

Box 11, Folder 51

sTop Secret Document

Box 11, Folder 52

Stopped at the Border

Box 11, Folder 53

The Story of Money: Reagan's Last Stand

Box 11, Folder 54

Straight Peoples Hell

Box 11, Folder 55

Stray Dogs

Box 11, Folder 56

Street Revenge

Box 11, Folder 57

Strong Tide

Box 11, Folder 58

Stupid People

Box 11, Folder 59

Stupid Poet that I Am

Box 11, Folder 60

Summer Castle 73

Box 11, Folder 61

Sun Man

Box 11, Folder 62

Suppose We Discover

Box 11, Folder 63

Sure I'm Prejudiced

Box 11, Folder 64

Surrounded By A Touch

Box 11, Folder 65

Sweep It Under

Box 11, Folder 66

A Sweetness Forecast

Box 11, Folder 67

Synchronic Systematic Subtle

Box 11, Folder 68

Systematic Exclusion of the Truth

Box 11, Folder 69

Take the World Personally

Box 11, Folder 70

Take Me Back (For Rosa Parks)

Box 11, Folder 71

Taking My Dimensions Elsewhere

Box 11, Folder 72

Tanisha

Box 11, Folder 73

Tanned Irishman

Box 11, Folder 74

Telephone Poles

Box 11, Folder 75

Temple of Doom

Box 11, Folder 76

Terra Firma

Box 11, Folder 77

Thank God for Dope Fiends

Box 11, Folder 78

Thank God for the Rain

Box 11, Folder 79

Thanks But No Thanks for the Advice

Box 11, Folder 80

Thought Process 1950's

Box 11, Folder 81

Threat to My Mind

Box 11, Folder 82

Thrown Down My Heart

Box 11, Folder 83

Thwarted Curiosities

Box 11, Folder 84

Tired as a Monsoon

Box 11, Folder 85

To the Max

Box 11, Folder 86

Toisa & Shauna

Box 11, Folder 87

Tomorrow

Box 11, Folder 88

Took You with Affirmative Action

Box 11, Folder 89

Top Secret Moscow Non Public Viewpoint, and Church of the Holy Atomic Particle Article 1

Box 11, Folder 90

To Whom it May Concern

Box 11, Folder 91

Trial by Fire

Box 11, Folder 92

A Tribute to Bob Kaufman's Poem Would You Wear My Eyes

Box 11, Folder 93

Twilight Morns Sensuous Turmoil

Box 11, Folder 94

Twilight Titanic Moons (for poet Marty Matz)

Box 11, Folder 95

Undercover

Box 12, Folder 1

Understanding Faith

Box 12, Folder 2

United Nations of Writers

Box 12, Folder 3

Up Close (As You Can Get)

Box 12, Folder 4

Updated Voodoo

Box 12, Folder 5

U.S. Diplomatic Corp

Box 12, Folder 6

U.S. Foreign Policy

Box 12, Folder 7

U.S. Policy 2003

Box 12, Folder 8

Valentine's 1985

Box 12, Folder 9

Venture Capital

Box 12, Folder 10

Vesuvio's

Box 12, Folder 11

View From the Back of the Bus

Box 12, Folder 12

Viking Oarsman, and Close-Up T.V. Ad

Box 12, Folder 13

Visible Light Analysis

Box 12, Folder 14

Voyeurs

Box 12, Folder 15

Wander the Buddha Nest

Box 12, Folder 16

Wanderin' Oasis

Box 12, Folder 17

Wanderlust Serendipity

Box 12, Folder 18

Wake Up Americracker!

Box 12, Folder 19

Want U2 (Middle East)

Box 12, Folder 20

War Song

Box 12, Folder 21

We Support Terrorism

Box 12, Folder 22

Wet You Down (With Metaphors)

Box 12, Folder 23

What Are We All Going to Do Without Alice's Advice?

Box 12, Folder 24

What Are You Thinking?

Box 12, Folder 25

What Do You Mean Not Genocide?

Box 12, Folder 26

What's Up?

Box 12, Folder 27

When I Approach You, You Flee

Box 12, Folder 28

When U.S. Warships Approached

Box 12, Folder 29

When You're With Us

Box 12, Folder 30

Where Are They?

Box 12, Folder 31

Where is Heaven?; Bill Gates/After the Deluge

Box 12, Folder 32

Where the Past Collides With the Future (Saudi King Welcomes Egypt's President for Talks)

Box 12, Folder 33

Where's the Mandate

Box 12, Folder 34

White on White Crime in Ireland

Box 12, Folder 35

White People

Box 12, Folder 36

The Whitehouse Coffee Tapes

Box 12, Folder 37

Wild Gardenias

Box 12, Folder 38

A Willing Victim

Box 12, Folder 39

Wing Tip Breast (You are My Child)

Box 12, Folder 40

Wish I Could Die

Box 12, Folder 41

Wishing Babies or Back to the Chains (A Change of Heart)

Box 12, Folder 42

Witch Doctors Took on Face of White Ash

Box 12, Folder 43

With You I Should Have Stayed

Box 12, Folder 44

Without You

Box 12, Folder 45

Wives

Box 12, Folder 46

Words & Meaning

Box 12, Folder 47

World Citizen

Box 12, Folder 48

World War II Never Ended

Box 12, Folder 49

World War 4 Manifesto

Box 12, Folder 50

Would You

Box 12, Folder 51

Wrecked in a Minor Key

Box 12, Folder 52

You Avoid Me

Box 12, Folder 53

You Get What You Ask For

Box 12, Folder 54

You Never Was a Geisha

Box 12, Folder 55

Your November Taste

Box 12, Folder 56

The You of Mirrors

Box 12, Folder 57

Your Basic Love-Dance

Box 12, Folder 58

Your Vibe

Box 12, Folder 59

Your Warmth

Box 12, Folder 60

Zippy's View of History

Early Writings, Essays and Notes

Box 12, Folder 61

Early poetry notebook, "Millennium Warriors" 1973

Box 12, Folder 62-64

Early poetry and other writings 1970-1973, and undated

General note

Typescript drafts, some with Professor Eugene Frumkin's comments.

Box 13, Folder 1-2

Book of Poems 1985-1986

General note

Compiled poetry by Tony Seymour, typeset by Eugenia Polos.

Box 13, Folder 3

Notebook, August's White Sun

Box 13, Folder 4-5

Notebooks of poems with drawings

Box 13, Folder 6

Notebook of poetry, various poems

Box 13, Folder 7

Bob Zen!! Or Spring Street Streaks or Bedtime Stories. 1976

General note

Spring Street essays dedicated to Eileen and Bob Kaufman.

Box 13, Folder 8

The Missing Link from Howl to Woodstock

General note

Interviews of Baba Ram Dass, Ritchie Havens, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Goode. Flyer and notes.

Box 13, Folder 9-10

Money Talks and Bullshit Walks: Confessions of a San Francisco Cab Driver 1983

General note

Drafts of stories.

Box 13, Folder 11

Review of Clint Eastwood's Honky Tonk Man

General note

Notes for potential article.

Box 14, Folder 1-2

Handwritten drafts, untitled

Box 14, Folder 3

Typescript drafts, untitled

Box 14, Folder 4

Horse Race Poem notebook

General note

Handwritten with drawings.

Box 14, Folder 5

Notes 1974

Box 14, Folder 6

Notes on popular vote vs. electoral college (from Reagan era)

Box 14, Folder 7

A Damaging Construct of the System (The Electoral College System) 1985

General note

Pamphlets by Tony Seymour (aka Charoq).

Box 14, Folder 8

Untitled poem 1973 June 22

Box 14, Folder 9

Outline for potential book 1973

Box 14, Folder 10

Book structure

General note

Includes poem Black Pride.

Box 14, Folder 11

Baseball short story

Box 14, Folder 12

Fear & Cohesion in Bethlehem, Nixon's Drug Squad Recruitment Officers 1976

General note

Draft of essay.

Box 14, Folder 13

The Ghost Next Door

General note

Draft of essay.

Box 14, Folder 14

Poetry for One Hour Live Set

General note

Typescript drafts.

Box 14, Folder 15

Various early handwritten poems c. 1975

Box 14, Folder 16

Interview with Ritchie Havens

General note

Partial transcripts and biographical notes.

Box 14, Folder 17

Interview with Michael White (violinist) 1974

General note

Transcripts.

Collaborations

Godzilla Verses Swan Blake, a poetry play collaboration between Tony Seymour and Blake More

Box 15, Folder 1

Set for first poetry read, with notes 2001 August 3

Box 15, Folder 2

Outtakes for first poetry read, with notes 2001 August 3

Box 15, Folder 3-4

Full version - one and a half hours

Box 15, Folder 5

One hour version

Box 15, Folder 6

Draft undated

Box 15, Folder 7

Programs and publicity

Box 15, Folder 8-9

The Black Festival, poetry sets

Writings by Others

Box 16, Folder 1

The Aluminum Chronicles 2009

General note

Suzzanne Dell and Tony Seymour.

Box 16, Folder 2

Booker, Bob 1998 April 28

General note

For the Long Shot King - Jack Micheline.

Box 16, Folder 3

Conky, Jay 1984 July

General note

The 6th of August.

Cook, Joie

Box 16, Folder 4

Explanations 1984 February 9

Box 16, Folder 5

Gravity's Last Call

Box 16, Folder 6

Just Hearts, for Tony Seymour 1986 November

Box 16, Folder 7

Fitton, Barry

General note

AD 2067. For Tony Seymour and Blake More.

Box 16, Folder 8

Fraczek, Ericka 1985 January 13

General note

Poems "For Tony."

Box 16, Folder 9

Gollub, David P.

General note

April 7, 1985 (For the radical deliverance to the shore of freedom on the second day of Passover, for Easter's hope of an added life, and for the seventieth anniversary of Billie Holiday's birth).

RDG, "Rainier Bob"

Box 16, Folder 10

Typescript signed letter and written work What Time is It?

Box 16, Folder 11

Typescript untitled signed poem 1985 January 5

Box 16, Folder 12

Typescript untitled signed poem 1985 January 17

Box 16, Folder 13

Hackett, Philip

General note

For Camille Javal.

Box 16, Folder 14

Hirschman, Jack

General note

Signed untitled broadside.

Box 16, Folder 15

Landry, Paul

General note

Poem for Marty Matz (On a Theme From Mallarme).

Mercer, Susan

Box 16, Folder 16

Hang Dog, handwritten poems I Want, and So What

Box 16, Folder 17

Private Gift, handwritten signed poem 1985 March 1

Micheline, Jack

Box 16, Folder 18

For Those Who Don't Know Any Better Be Aware of Jackals, for Jeffrey H. Weinberg, signed broadside

Box 16, Folder 19

It is Not Here on Earth What I Am Seeking

General note

Signed broadside.

Box 16, Folder 20

The Prince with Big Eyes, for Bob Kaufman

Box 16, Folder 21

More, Blake

General note

Poetry and articles with annotations by Tony Seymour.

Box 16, Folder 22

Nails, Phillip T. 2001 August

General note

I Am Your West.

Box 16, Folder 23

Peffer, George W.

General note

The Fading: Selected Poems 1980-1986.

Tsongas, George

Box 16, Folder 24

As I Get Older

Box 16, Folder 25

Haikus

Box 16, Folder 26

Searching for the Rainbow

Box 16, Folder 27

Where Blood's Been Spilled

Box 16, Folder 28

Vesuvio's Bar conversation c. 1980s

General note

Five writers writing a paragraph each.

Box 16, Folder 29

Widley, Lynne

General note

Slip Stream and Uncanny Sobriquet, includes flyer for music/poetry event.

Box 16, Folder 30

Williams, Umar Aki 1994

General note

Humanifesto poster.

Box 16, Folder 31

Framed, handwritten poem given to T.S., author unknown

Box 16, Folder 32

Zone of Libra, typescript poem, author unknown

Box 16, Folder 33-34

Shig's Review

BOB KAUFMAN

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) BOB KAUFMAN: Material collected by Seymour about his friend and mentor Beat poet Bob Kaufman, including the Bob Kaufman Day Celebration in 1987. Also includes several essays, some by Seymour, about Kaufman's poetry and life, and transcripts from Seymour's interview with Bob Kaufman in 1976.

Box 17, Folder 1-8

Bob Kaufman Day Celebration, order of performances, publicity, flyers, correspondence

Box 17, Folder 9

Photo album with photographs of events by Eugenia Polos

Box 17, Folder 10-12

No Gods to Guide, No Herds to Follow. Bob Kaufman's Street Bop Zen. Typescript draft of book with handwritten cover

General note

Typescript draft of book with handwritten cover, typeset pages of book, early typescript draft, and excerpt copies from book.

Oversize FB-552, Folder 2

Timeline for poets and speakers for Bob Kaufman Day celebration 1987 March 28

General note

Oversized chart.

Oversize FB-552, Folder 2

Mock-up of poster for Bob Kaufman Day celebration 1987 April 13

Box 17, Folder 13

Bob Kaufman, Summer '76: "No Gods to Guide, No Herds to Follow." Article published in Coast Magazine

Box 17, Folder 14

Bob Kaufman 4 page partial interview transcript 1976

Box 17, Folder 15

A Tribute to Bob Kaufman, featuring Cecil Taylor, Tony Seymour and Blake More

Box 17, Folder 16

Correspondence relating to two hour radio documentary "Bob Kaufman, Poet" 1991

Box 17, Folder 17

Hidden Master of the Beats, by Steve Abbott

General note

Article about Bob Kaufman in Poetry Flash #155, 1986 February.

Box 17, Folder 18

Tony Seymour Article in response to Poetry Flash article Bob Kaufman "Hidden Master of the Beats"

Box 17, Folder 19

Copies of letters to the Editor (of Poetry Flash?) by Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman 1976

Box 17, Folder 20

Don't Forget Bob Kaufman, article by Tony Seymour in Coast Magazine 1976 April 25

Box 17, Folder 21

A Be-bob History of the Original Be-bop Man, article in Berkeley Barb

Box 17, Folder 22

Feedback on Bob Kaufman article "Crimes of a Poet" in Player's Magazine

Box 17, Folder 23

Tribute to Bob Kaufman - Poet of North Beach in KPFA Folio 1986 April

Box 17, Folder 24

Tributes to Kaufman in North Beach Magazine 1986 Spring

General note

Tony Seymour mentioned on page 42.

Box 17, Folder 25

Himself, article by Charles McCabe in San Francisco Chronicle 1981 October 29

Box 17, Folder 26

Remembering Bob Kaufman

Box 17, Folder 27

Notes on Bob Kaufman

Box 17, Folder 28

The Bob Kaufman Living Rainbow Benefit Series, draft notes

Box 17, Folder 29

A Special Message to the Bob Kaufman Collective, draft pages

Box 17, Folder 30

Notes for Bob Kaufman article Summer 1975

Box 17, Folder 31

Bob Kaufman's memorial service announcement in Poetry Flash 1986 January

Box 17, Folder 32

Bob Kaufman's funeral flowers 1986 January 17

POETRY EVENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) POETRY EVENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Poetry Events and B) Miscellaneous.

A) Poetry Events: Ephemera and programs chronicling various poetry readings and events in and around San Francisco.

B) Miscellaneous: Arranged alphabetically, includes additional materials documenting various professional projects including materials relating to Seymour's musical projects and collaborations: Altone: Tales from the Black House musical collaboration with Alexander Dore; Oakland East Bay Symphony Words & Music Project; Wrecked in a Minor Key; and WW4 (World War Four).

Poetry Events

Box 18, Folder 1

Bay Area Poetry Jubilee 2000 September 22-23

Box 18, Folder 2

National Poetry Month, Benicia Public Library 1999 April 21

Box 18, Folder 3

National Poetry Week, San Francisco 1987 April 11-17

Oversize FB-552, Folder 1

National Poetry Week poster, San Francisco 1987 April 11-17

Box 18, Folder 4

Philip Hackett's Press Club, poetry readings flyers 1987 February 25.

Box 18, Folder 5

San Francisco's Magic Parlor

General note

Includes signed Arts & Culture section of San Francisco Examiner by James Hamilton.

Oversize FB-552, Folder 1

Tribute to North Beach Poets

General note

Poster featuring Tony Seymour.

Box 18, Folder 6

Various poetry readings flyers and programs

Box 18, Folder 7

Wake Up! Wake Up! Featuring Tony Seymour. Colored Ink and Brava Theater Center

Miscellaneous

Box 18, Folder 8-11

Altone: Tales from the Black House

General note

Collaboration between Tony Seymour and musician Alexander Dore. Includes poetry sets showing music breaks, flyers, Tony Seymour biographical information, radio station correspondence and notes.

Box 18, Folder 12

Blabbermouth Night at the Place

General note

Refer to cassette recording of Blabbermouth Night live telecast May 1958. Mock up of cassette tape cover and content listing.

Box 18, Folder 13

Farwell Middle School Project Head Spark - "We Be Bad" 1987

Box 18, Folder 14

Flyer for "When Put to the Test, Love Never Lets You Rest"

Box 18, Folder 15

Allen Ginsberg envelope with handwritten notes

General note

Includes black and white photographs from unknown El Salvador war photographer.

Box 18, Folder 16

List of poetry for radio airplay

General note

Poems with musical accompaniment.

Box 18, Folder 17

List of titles (poetry fragments?)

Box 18, Folder 18

Jack Micheline poster poem 1986

Box 18, Folder 19

Non-Voter Alliance of America flyers from Ritchie Havens

Box 18, Folder 20

Oakland East Bay Symphony Words & Music Project

General note

Notes and correspondence.

Box 18, Folder 21

Order of performance for poetry reading

Box 18, Folder 22

Poet with a Past Comes to Benicia 1999 April 20

General note

Article on Tony Seymour in the Benicia Herald

Box 18, Folder 23

Sequence of filming Beatitude 33, project outline

Box 18, Folder 24

World War Four (Musical group featuring Tony Seymour and Mitchel Holman)

General note

Advertisement for the group, song listing, typescript copy of World War Four Manifesto.

AUDIOVISUAL & DIGITAL MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) AUDIOVISUAL & DIGITAL MATERIALS. Arranged in three subseries: A) Audiocassettes, B) VHS Tapes, C) Digital Sound Recordings, D) Floppy Disc Content.

A) Audiocassettes: An assortment of sound recordings which include Seymour's interviews with Eileen and Bob Kaufman, Blabbermouth Night at the Place, the Bob Kaufman Day Celebration, and various other interviews, poetry readings and musical performances by Seymour.

B) VHS Tapes: A small selection of video recordings of Tony Seymour and Blake More's performance piece Godzilla Verses Swan Blake and a small selection of Seymour's other taped poetry readings dating from 1988-2001.

C) Digital Sound Recordings: A selection of recordings extracted from compact discs of Tony Seymour's spoken poetry to music from 2002-2015.

D) Floppy Disk Content: Poetry files imaged from 5/25" floppy disks. The titles provided here were transcribed from the labels on the original disks. Most of the poems copied from the floppies have generic titles (i.e., "POEM") in a numbered sequence.

Audiocassettes

Box 19, Folder 1

Tony Seymour interview with Eileen Kaufman (Side 2.)

General note

Side 1 includes part of interview with poor sound quality, music and vocals by Tony Seymour, undated.

Box 19, Folder 2

Tony Seymour interview with Bob Kaufman. Recording of Blabbermouth Night at the Place (Side 1.)

General note

See transcript of interview. Side 2 is blank.

Box 19, Folder 3

Blabbermouth Night at the Place

Box 19, Folder 4

Blabbermouth Night at the Place

Box 19, Folder 5

Tony Seymour interview on WDET-FM radio reading "The Beats are Slowly Dying", and talking about Bob Kaufman

Box 19, Folder 6

Bob Kaufman Day Celebration in San Francisco City Hall

Box 19, Folder 7

Tony Seymour, Atlas Sits poetry reading

Box 19, Folder 8

Tony Seymour interview on KFOG Morning Commute with Craig Eastly

Box 19, Folder 9

Tony Seymour reading Nerve Damage 1986 May 18

General note

Side A: "Motor City" reading.

Box 19, Folder 10

Tony Seymour reading at the Union Street Gallery 1989 April 5

Box 19, Folder 11

Sun Ra Interview, Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival 1973 September 9

Box 19, Folder 12

Ericka Huggins Interview, Black Panthers 1975 February

Box 19, Folder 13

Black/Irish, poetry reading of Racism Without the Colon, If Ireland were America 1998/1999

Box 19, Folder 14

CBGB's Live, New York city audition, T.S. with World War Four (guitar and vocals) 1983 (?)

Box 19, Folder 15-16

Miscellaneous microcassettes

VHS Tapes

Box 19, Folder 17

Tony Seymour at Café International 2001 May 18

Box 19, Folder 18

Tony Seymour and Blake More, Godzilla Verses Swan Blake Future Vision Cable Show, parts 1-3 2001

Box 19, Folder 19

Tony Seymour and Blake More, Godzilla Verses Swan Blake 2001 July 22

General note

1st Rehearsal at Quantum Consulting.

Box 19, Folder 20

Tony Seymour Valentine's Day rehearsal at Quantum Consulting 2001

Box 19, Folder 21

Tony Seymour poetry reading and interview at Spasso Coffeehouse ca. 1995

Box 19, Folder 22

Tony Seymour poetry reading for National Poetry Week, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. 1988 August 23

Digital Sound Recordings

Words & Music Symphony Project 2003

General

Seven .wav sounds recordings. First two files are of the same recording. Poems: Wrecked in a Minor Key, Could Have Been, Baghdad Chronicles, Christ Died, Forever Adrift into Tomorrow and Before Words.

Poems with music 2003

General

Five .wav sound recordings. Part 1. Idiots (Erick Sermon); Part 2. Baghdad Chronicles (Beastie Boys); Part 3. Tanisha (Paul Taylor); Part 4. Wrecked in a Minor Key (Miles Davis); Part 5. Yvonne Could Have Been (unknown music).

Requiem for Civilization (Part 3), excerpt from Works in Progress 2003

General

One .wav sound recording. Words & Music - Melissa Hui and Tony Seymour, Oakland East Bay Symphony.

Poetry by Tony Seymour (with music) 2002

General

Eleven .wav sounds recordings. Includes: So Many Promises (Paul Taylor), Leslie Nassan (Miles Davis), Wet U Down (Miles Davis), Tanisha (Paul Taylor), 1492-1992 Flipside (Miles Davis), Not Genocide? (Jimi Hendrix), During Their Lifetime (Miles Davis), Direct Talk (Jimi Hendrix), Never Was A Geisha (Beastie Boys), Whores Dream (Paul Taylor), and Wrecked in a Minor Key (Miles Davis).

Ghost Dust & TV Tombstones 2015

General

Fifteen .wav sound recordings. Poetry by Tony Seymour (with music) for WFMU pledge drive. Includes: Not Un-Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan), You Never Was a Geisha (Alex Dore), Beat Ladies (Alex Dore), During Their Lifetime (Miles Davis), English Woman (Alex Dore), Maybe, Might As Well (Alex Dore), America - The Flipside 1492-1992 (Alex Dore), Leslie Nassan (Miles Davis), Baby Be Like Vodka (Alex Dore), Whore's Dream, Pimp's Nightmare (Jimi Hendrix), Tanisha (Paul Taylor), Wrecked in a Minor Key (Miles Davis), Wet You Down (Miles Davis), Before Words (Guillermo Galindo), and Never Was a Geisha (Beastie Boys).

Floppy Disk Content

Revised Titles & Justifications A - Poems 023 to 039 (253 Pages) 040, 042. Full Doc 10-30 Revised Version Doc 10 - 4/20/94, 1/04/95

Tony's Poems 001-015; Doc 42 to Doc 46 - 9/20/93, 1/05/95

"A:/Poems 027 to "A:/Poems" 032-039 - 1996

Full Disk: A:040 - A:044 - 9-13-94

A:\Poems.001 To A:\Poems.016; Doc 31 to Doc 41 - 11/10/93; 1/5/95

Numbered 124 to 134, #48, Title page Intro

Poems for Another Time (Collected Works) - Poems .124-.134, the Epilogue - 8/16/97

Poems for Another Time (Collected Works) - Page 001 to Page 705

Poems .023 to .030; with footers and titles - May 1994

Final Numbered 101 to 113 to 123

A:\041 Poems

Revised [Center] 003-015

May 9th 1994 A:/Poems/ Doc 42 Rwanda Poems 031 - 034

Doc 1 to Doc 9 - 1/04/95

Revised Poems 001 to 018 with 35 PT. Titles etc. Justifications. All printed 12/23

Revised Titles, Justifications A:/Poems .019-.022 - 4/19/94