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In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 26"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Robert Creeley and Donald Allen interviewed by Warren Tallman on April 11, 1975 in Bolinas, CA"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Tallman, Warren","Creeley, Robert","Allen, Donald"],"creator_names_search":["Tallman, Warren","Creeley, Robert","Allen, Donald"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/109562114\",\"name\":\"Creeley, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1926-2005\",\"notes\":\"His voice is heard in this interview \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/79111075\",\"name\":\"Allen, Donald\",\"dates\":\"1912-2004\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1975],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/12185/Warren Tallman Fonds_MsC 26.44_193.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"193 Side A.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:15\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"193 Side B.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:17\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1975-04-11\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/150969386\",\"venue\":\"Donald Allen Residence\",\"notes\":\"Donald Allen had a residence in Bolinas, CA, so that was likely the location for this recording.\",\"address\":\"Bolinas, CA\",\"latitude\":\"37° 54' 20.39\\\" N \",\"longitude\":\"-122° 41' 6.59\\\" W\"}]"],"Address":["Bolinas, CA"],"Venue":["Donald Allen Residence"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"This discussion may have taken place while Tallman and Creeley visited Donald Allen in Bolinas, CA, where he had a residence. \\n\\nTallman spent a sabbatical or study leave in Bolinas in the academic year 1974-1975 so this conversation was likely conducted during this period, though he visited at other times.\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556696576000,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.983Z","score":2.4746408},{"id":"7905","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Fred Wah fonds collects materials from Vancouver-based poet Fred Wah, who was appointed as Canadau2019s fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011 and has published 25 books between 1965 and 2016. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region. His Chinese and Scots-Irish ethnic background and identity have a significant influence on his literary work. Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Duncan McNaughton reading poetry at Bella Vista Street (Warren Tallman’s House) in Vancouver on July 4, 1975"],"item_title_source":["Cassette and J-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["McNaughton, Duncan","Wah, Fred","Tallman, Warren"],"creator_names_search":["McNaughton, Duncan","Wah, Fred","Tallman, Warren"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/63059516\",\"name\":\"McNaughton, Duncan\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"Fred Wah introduces Duncan McNaughton in the beginning of side one. \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"Warren Tallman's heard laughing on side one, so he is present; in addition, we assume this recording must have happened at his place\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1975],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"Uploads/7905/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17 g_138.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MsC17g-138 Side A\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:10\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"61.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MsC17g-138 Side B\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"60.9 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1975-07-04\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30880923\",\"venue\":\"Warren Tallman’s House\",\"notes\":\"Bella Vista is the street where Warren Tallman lived; his voice is heard on side, so we assume the recoding must have been recorded at Warren Tallman's house. \\nIn the '70s(?) he moved to 3504 Bella Vista in East Vancouver V5N 3W9 and lived there till his death. \",\"address\":\"3504 Bella Vista in East Vancouver V5N 3W9\",\"latitude\":\"49.25312\",\"longitude\":\"-123.07054\"}]"],"Address":["3504 Bella Vista in East Vancouver V5N 3W9"],"Venue":["Warren Tallman’s House"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670557451550720,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:01.720Z","score":2.4746408}]