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I, Too, at the Beginning by Ted Joans

Ted Joans

Ted Joans

I, Too, at the Beginning I am the early Black Beat I read with some of the Best Beat minds When the Apple was Beat Generating I lived in Greenwich Village I was there Where I read poems and … [Read more...]

For Ted Joans: poems and a collage by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Le Corbeau et Le Courbet – for Ted Joans (written at Café Le Roquet – Paris 1/30/06) today the light is so bright diffused light tracing det snoaj like a backward shadow @ the origin of the … [Read more...]

Liz Taylor’s Lovers – for Ted Joans

Steve Dalachinsky

credit: Eastman / public domain

he wants desperately to do different things he stretches out his arms & the leaves come to him he is a poet he puts out his american hands & grain grows from their fingertips like the … [Read more...]

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

David Amram / Ted Joans

Dear Laura: I just heard about Ted's passing and wanted to tell you how sorry I was, and hope you will know that you are not alone, and that many like myself (I knew Ted since 1956) will always … [Read more...]

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans and John Barbato

ted joans interview teducated

Ted Joans, one of the original Beat poets, was born in Cairo, Illinois on 4 July 1928. By his twenties, living in New York City, he moved in the surrealist world of painters, jazz players, and poets. … [Read more...]

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

GOODBYE, TED JOANS Don't let the minute spoil the hour.      --Ted Joans Ted Joans died April 25th, 2003 at the age of 74. He was alone in his apartment in Vancouver, … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Words by T. Paul Ste. Marie

T. Paul Ste. Marie

T. Paul Ste.. Marie and Ted Joans

My fortune in life, my true fortune of connecting with wonderful people, grew intensely as a result of knowing Ted & Laura here in Vancouver, B.C.. I had first met them at a reading Ted was giving at … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

various contributors

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Cordley Coit Ted Joans   (unfinished documentary) Music: Ornette Coleman's Empty Foxhole Red beans and rice, wet pussy, nice. We know where the .38 lives where the rule of … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

        please      Mr. Sweetness/      Miss … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

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Stephen Ronan: By the time of Ted's visits to City Lights I had attended at least one of his readings. Usually he would read at Cody's Books in Berkeley. I remember good turn-outs and a general … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

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Robert Elliot Fox: For Ted Joans He sprang from Ole Man River tracked every groove in the diasporic spiral a wailer who harpoon- tanged on three continents Afro-beat … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

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John Bibby: I met Ted twice - in Timbuktu (1966) and in Algiers (1969). I remember his immortal first words - "Haben Sie Sardinen?" (I was wearing Lederhosen - he assumed I was German - and he … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

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C. Edward Bernier: Ted Joans came to us in the late 70s fresh from his wanderings throughout the Sahel. I was Cultural Affairs Officer at the US Embassy in Dakar. He began slowly, with poetry … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

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John Bibby: I met Ted twice - in Timbuktu (1966) and in Algiers (1969). I remember his immortal first words - "Haben Sie Sardinen?" (I was wearing Lederhosen - he assumed I was German - and he … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (8)

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Anne Baxter: The written word is not my medium, but I feel Ted would be pleased if I at least made an attempt to honor him and his "Teducation" though this great website. I first met Ted in Paris. … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

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Dudley Merchant: I met up with Ted Joans in June of 1978 in Paris. He was great to read with and we had two readings together and a few more parties. Ted is alive as I think of him often. He was … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

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Denise Enck: I've been writing a piece about Ted and will post it here in a few days. But this this morning while looking through a cache of letters, postcards, and ephemera Ted sent me over the … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

various contributors

Ted Joans Lives

Michael Hayward True story: yesterday afternoon, writing at the window table in my favorite café (Caffé Buongiorno in Vancouver) I looked up to see Ted Joans running across the street towards me, … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

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ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Larry Keenan Keith Scotcher I was shocked to hear of Ted's death, having met him in Paris in March, first outside the Shakespeare and Co bookshop and later at his regular cafe in Blvd St … [Read more...]

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie and various contributors

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Rik Lina This is one of the many cadavre-exquises Ted made people to do, must be more than thousand...note the small text he wrote in it: "cadavrexquis is not dead." Laura Corsiglia, Ted and I made … [Read more...]

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