Tony Seymour Papers, 1965-2006 (MSS 749)

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

Extent: 7.6 Linear feet (18 archives boxes, 1 card file box), + 1.97 GB of digital files

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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.

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.

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.

Container List

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

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

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

Includes signed poems.

Box 2 Folder 4
Feinstein, Dianne, 1988

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

Box 2 Folder 5
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1975 August 8

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

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

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

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

Box 3 Folder 5
Oakland East Bay Symphony, 2003

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

Regarding Bob Kaufman story.

Box 3 Folder 9
Sinclair, John, 2001-2002
Box 3 Folder 10
Valentine's Day card, 1990 February 14

Handmade card by Seymour.

Box 3 Folder 11
Zander, Angela, 1987 November 3

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

Box 3 Folder 12
Draft letters to "Leslie at Channel 7"

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

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

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

Typescript broadside and handwritten notes.

Box 6 Folder 55
Bamboo Shoes
Box 6 Folder 56
Basic Design

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Box 13 Folder 1-2
Book of Poems, 1985-1986

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

Spring Street essays dedicated to Eileen and Bob Kaufman.

Box 13 Folder 8
The Missing Link from Howl to Woodstock

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

Drafts of stories.

Box 13 Folder 11
Review of Clint Eastwood's Honky Tonk Man

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

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

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

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

Draft of essay.

Box 14 Folder 13
The Ghost Next Door

Draft of essay.

Box 14 Folder 14
Poetry for One Hour Live Set

Typescript drafts.

Box 14 Folder 15
Various early handwritten poems, c. 1975
Box 14 Folder 16
Interview with Ritchie Havens

Partial transcripts and biographical notes.

Box 14 Folder 17
Interview with Michael White (violinist), 1974

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

Suzzanne Dell and Tony Seymour.

Box 16 Folder 2
Booker, Bob, 1998 April 28

For the Long Shot King - Jack Micheline.

Box 16 Folder 3
Conky, Jay, 1984 July

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

AD 2067. For Tony Seymour and Blake More.

Box 16 Folder 8
Fraczek, Ericka, 1985 January 13

Poems "For Tony."

Box 16 Folder 9
Gollub, David P.

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

For Camille Javal.

Box 16 Folder 14
Hirschman, Jack

Signed untitled broadside.

Box 16 Folder 15
Landry, Paul

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

Signed broadside.

Box 16 Folder 20
The Prince with Big Eyes, for Bob Kaufman
Box 16 Folder 21
More, Blake

Poetry and articles with annotations by Tony Seymour.

Box 16 Folder 22
Nails, Phillip T., 2001 August

I Am Your West.

Box 16 Folder 23
Peffer, George W.

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

Five writers writing a paragraph each.

Box 16 Folder 29
Widley, Lynne

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

Box 16 Folder 30
Williams, Umar Aki, 1994

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oversize FB-552 Folder 1
Tribute to North Beach Poets

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

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

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

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

Box 18 Folder 16
List of poetry for radio airplay

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

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

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)

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.)

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.)

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

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

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

Digital file 1
Words & Music Symphony Project, 2003

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.

Digital file 3
Poems with music, 2003

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).

Digital file 4
Requiem for Civilization (Part 3), excerpt from Works in Progress, 2003

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

Digital file 5
Poetry by Tony Seymour (with music), 2002

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).

Digital file 6
Ghost Dust & TV Tombstones, 2015

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

Digital file 7
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
Digital file 8
Tony's Poems 001-015; Doc 42 to Doc 46 - 9/20/93, 1/05/95
Digital file 9
"A:/Poems 027 to "A:/Poems" 032-039 - 1996
Digital file 10
Full Disk: A:040 - A:044 - 9-13-94
Digital file 11
A:\Poems.001 To A:\Poems.016; Doc 31 to Doc 41 - 11/10/93; 1/5/95
Digital file 12
Numbered 124 to 134, #48, Title page Intro
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Poems for Another Time (Collected Works) - Poems .124-.134, the Epilogue - 8/16/97
Digital file 14
Poems for Another Time (Collected Works) - Page 001 to Page 705
Digital file 15
Poems .023 to .030; with footers and titles - May 1994
Digital file 16
Final Numbered 101 to 113 to 123
Digital file 17
A:\041 Poems
Digital file 18
Revised [Center] 003-015
Digital file 19
May 9th 1994 A:/Poems/ Doc 42 Rwanda Poems 031 - 034
Digital file 20
Doc 1 to Doc 9 - 1/04/95
Digital file 21
Revised Poems 001 to 018 with 35 PT. Titles etc. Justifications. All printed 12/23
Digital file 22
Revised Titles, Justifications A:/Poems .019-.022 - 4/19/94