Steve The Fly has assembled a stupendous compendium of poetry & music for Episode 141 in 2015 featuring Charles Olson reading from Maximus IV, V, VI, Amiri Baraka with the Dinamitri Jazz Folklore unit and with the Billy Harper Sextet, the great Robert Creeley, and poet-saxophonist Archie Shepp.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

UP THE STEPS

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Steve The Fly, Fly Agaric 23 Studio, Bristol UK, December 24, 2015 [23575]

Charles Olson: Untitled Maximus Poem > Vida Upanishad Eda Than >

Kent Circle (Wrote My First Poems) > Further Completion of Plot >

Maximus Poem July 24, 1968

Amiri Baraka  & Dinamitri Jazz Folklore: Kongo Bells

Charles Olson: Now Called Gravel Hill

Archie Shepp: Poem For Malcolm

Robert Creeley: Clemente’s Images

Amiri Baraka & the Billy Harper Sextet :Knowledge of Self

Charles Olson: Mayan Letter No. 5 (With Intro)

Amiri Baraka & the Billy Harper Sextet: Oh … If Only

Charles Olson: To Travel Typhon > Up the Steps > People Want Delivery

• The Coast > Tesserae Commissure > Older Than Blybos >

Chronicles I > Chronicles II

A JOINT PRODUCTION

Produced by Steve “The Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam (#141)

Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair

Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels

Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam

© 2015, 2023 Steve Pratt. Used with permission.