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 painted poetry Whilst worthy constituents Dwelled … [Read more...]
David Amram: To Laura for 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 miss him, as you and his children. So will all the … [Read more...]
Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet
Sad news indeed that old friend and ally Ted Joans has died in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he'd been living for the past few years. Apparently his health, affected by diabetes, had not been good, and though there is as yet no clear report, that … [Read more...]
The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans
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. If a scene was happening Joans had it covered. A … [Read more...]
Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans
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, British Columbia. His body wasn't found until May … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Words by T. Paul Ste. Marie
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 Bukowski's Bar & Grill. Being a poet and an artist … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars
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 switchblades reign. We waited for Brother Malcolm, … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel
please Mr. Sweetness/ Miss Light ... horny is as.. 2 yrs later..he gave me & A...a cupcake and one of his books, What Else? as a present for our formal wedding... May 15 1981 4:30 PM … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)
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 delight with Ted's charismatic renditions of his poems of … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)
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 purveyor of seer realism prowling graffiti street … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)
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 was on the edge of the Sahara pining for … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)
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 readings about town and in the countryside. Then he moved … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)
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 was on the edge of the Sahara pining for … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (8)
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. It was 1988, and he came to my sculpture exhibit. My … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)
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 really against the French learning to rent their cars, … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)
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 years, I found this recent item which I thought I'd share … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer
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, and then carrying on, heading west, his eyes alight. I … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan
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 Germain, he seemed in good spirits and looked well. He … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more
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 it 19 June in Amsterdam 2001. Hammond … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)
Howard Park: I only met Ted Joans once, at the 1994 NYU Beat Conference. According to my somewhat altered consciousness and memory of the time, Ted and Jack Micheline stole the show. At the time, Ted was living, at least part-time, in Timbuktu (did I … [Read more...]