Part 1 of our discussion of Allen Ginsberg's powerful anti-war poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, with poets Bob Herz, Phil Memmer, and Stephen Kuusisto. Many thanks to the Ginsberg estate for allowing us to use recordings of Allen Ginsberg reading the poem. The estate's website is here: http://allenginsberg.org/#!/.

Also thanks to PennSound and its wonderful Allen Ginsberg page, from which these recordings are drawn, and which contains many others. The page is here: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ginsberg.php

Music for this discussion was supplied by the brilliant Bob Perry, from his song, "Slip Up."