As we slowly ease into the new year we leave behind the pleasures of family and the holidays I was reminded of a truly remarkable document from our archives that shows that the quotidian can also be historically significant: "Robert Creeley and Company: Home Movies by Bobbie Louise Hawkins."
Charles Bernstein provided some background information in a 2014 Jacket2 commentary post announcing the addition of these films, along with a timetable of its contents: "Bobbie Louise Hawkins took these home movies from 1962 to 1965. She provided them to Robert McTavish for his film about the Vancouver poetry conference of 1963, The Line Has Shattered (2013), and then asked McTavish to send them to PennSound. Penelope Creeley and McTavish provided most of the annotations. We welcome any further identifications: let us know!"
Above, we see a screenshot of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and John Wieners; other captures Bernstein has selected from the films include Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, and John Cage. You can see them here and watch the films here.
