Texts by Anne Waldman: "John Giorno: Activity Demon” “The Marabout Smiles”

Texts by John Giorno: “There Was A Bad Tree” “Just Say No To Family Values”

Chant: The Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translation by the Nalanda Translation Committee

Video of Anne Waldman: Ed Bowes (Walsung Productions) and Jade Laschelles

Video of John Giorno: Alystyre Julian

Additional Video: Anne Waldman, Natalia Gaia, and Ambrose Bye

Photographs : Allen Ginsberg, El Habib Louai, Enzo Eric Toccaceli, and Ambrose Bye

Additional photographs and visual Art from the Anne Waldman Archive

Slogans: John Giorno

Video Editing: Natalia Gaia
Sound Design and Audio Mixing: Ambrose Bye

“Once You Stop”
Guitar: Max Davies
Piano: Ambrose Bye

Created for John Giorno Poetry Day
Pompidou Center, September 19, 2020

Thanks to Peter Hale and The Committee on Poetry
FAST SPEAKING MUSIC 2020
New York City , Boulder, Mexico City