Amanda Rybin Koob

Interlude: Rereading the beginning

Featuring Anne Waldman

Jaime Groetsema and Amanda Rybin Koob
Black and white image of a woman and man holding a large quilt.
Ethel Sampson’s historical quilt from 1937.

Are archives necessarily institutional? Is an archive simply a collection of things representing something? Does it matter if the collection of things is metaphorical, commercial, or virtual? Must the materials of the archive represent an event and must they include a nod to the longevity of narrative and the pursuit of preservation? Is an archive still an archive if it is inaccessible? (I’ve written more specifically about archives and language over at Reconfigurations.)

Jaime Groetsema: Whenever I think about archives or the material culture that could possibly constitute them, I try to define what an archive is.  

'Here I am out in the woods …'

Alternative communities and writing, part 1

Jaime Groetsema and Amanda Rybin Koob
Collage of text and image. Text includes printed biographies of faculty.
Collage of program material for Summer Writing Program, courtesy of Naropa University. Photograph © Jaime Groetsema.

The Summer Writing Program came out of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (JKS) at Naropa University. JKS was officially established in 1974 along with what has been called the Visiting Poetic Academy, the Summer Institute, amongst other conventions, and now the Summer Writing Program (SWP). 

Naropa Archive Recording Title: Alternative Communities and Writing                                          Date of Recording: June 9, 2003            &nbs

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