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	''by Richard Hack''		''by Richard Hack, from '''''Oxygen Magazine''''', March 19, 1997 ''

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	One of the more wide-ranging and intense literary venues of '70s San Francisco was The Cloud House, a live-work space hosted by Kush, a New Yorker with a Whitmanesque mission to spread poetry, comradeship, and democracy. After moving to the city he was joined by his wife Hedy, a skilled and promising but non-publishing poet who graduated from Naropa.		One of the more wide-ranging and intense literary venues of '70s San Francisco was The Cloud House, a live-work space hosted by Kush, a New Yorker with a Whitmanesque mission to spread poetry, comradeship, and democracy. After moving to the city he was joined by his wife Hedy, a skilled and promising but non-publishing poet who graduated from Naropa.

	The Cloud House ran Thursday night round-robins for more than a decade in and around the Mission district. There was always an air of intense devotion to literature and to social and spiritual goals. Readers identified themselves by first name only, and took turns reading their own and others' work until everyone's appetite for poetry was satisfied. The tone was musical, erotic, intellectual, outspoken, political, and ~~visionary--an~~ open reading with pizzazz, with a resonant connection to the traditions of world culture.		The Cloud House ran Thursday night round-robins for more than a decade in and around the Mission district. There was always an air of intense devotion to literature and to social and spiritual goals. Readers identified themselves by first name only, and took turns reading their own and others' work until everyone's appetite for poetry was satisfied. The tone was musical, erotic, intellectual, outspoken, political, and visionary—an open reading with pizzazz, with a resonant connection to the traditions of world culture.

	The walls were covered with art work, including portraits of Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and other mystics and modernists. Famous poets and unknown writers all spent time in the sage-scented circle of The Cloud House, reading and communing by kerosene lamp, candles, or electric light. Readers and listeners came from all over the Bay Area, the country, and the ~~world----an~~ amazingly dedicated cross-section of "the underground," those mad bearers of truth who articulate, inspire, and cross-pollinate the great currents of progress, resistance, and cooperation.		The walls were covered with art work, including portraits of Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and other mystics and modernists. Famous poets and unknown writers all spent time in the sage-scented circle of The Cloud House, reading and communing by kerosene lamp, candles, or electric light. Readers and listeners came from all over the Bay Area, the country, and the world—an amazingly dedicated cross-section of "the underground," those mad bearers of truth who articulate, inspire, and cross-pollinate the great currents of progress, resistance, and cooperation.

	The heyday of The Cloud House was the late 1970s at 3253 Sixteenth Street, between Guerrero and Dolores. This storefront was eventually taken over by a real estate office, and Kush moved his scene to the Talking Leaves bookstore at 99 Sanchez Street (formerly the site of Panjandrum Books). He later moved to [[The Farm\|The Farm]], a venerable house of community activism next to the freeway at Army and Bayshore, then had a good run on Laussat Street, an alley near Haight and Fillmore Streets, in the late '80s and early '90s, when the weekly round-robins finally came to an end after another move to Pine and Franklin Streets.		The heyday of The Cloud House was the late 1970s at 3253 Sixteenth Street, between Guerrero and Dolores. This storefront was eventually taken over by a real estate office, and Kush moved his scene to the Talking Leaves bookstore at 99 Sanchez Street (formerly the site of Panjandrum Books). He later moved to [[The Farm\|The Farm]], a venerable house of community activism next to the freeway at Army and Bayshore, then had a good run on Laussat Street, an alley near Haight and Fillmore Streets, in the late '80s and early '90s, when the weekly round-robins finally came to an end after another move to Pine and Franklin Streets.

	Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for [[Allen Ginsberg\|Allen Ginsberg]]. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.		Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for [[Allen Ginsberg\|Allen Ginsberg]]. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.

	~~''from '''Oxygen Magazine''', March 19, 1997 ''~~

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	Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for [[Allen Ginsberg\|Allen Ginsberg]]. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.		Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for [[Allen Ginsberg\|Allen Ginsberg]]. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.

	''~~--Richard Hack,~~ '''Oxygen Magazine''', March 19, 1997 ''		''from '''Oxygen Magazine''', March 19, 1997 ''

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			''by Richard Hack''

	[[Image:litersf1$beatnik-poetry-reading.jpg]]		[[Image:litersf1$beatnik-poetry-reading.jpg]]

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	'''Cloud House continued a long tradition of open poetry readings in San Francisco, as seen here in a Grant Avenue Street Fair in 1959.'''		'''Cloud House continued a long tradition of open poetry readings in San Francisco, as seen here in a Grant Avenue Street Fair in 1959.'''

			''Photo: C.R. Snyder''

	One of the more wide-ranging and intense literary venues of '70s San Francisco was The Cloud House, a live-work space hosted by Kush, a New Yorker with a Whitmanesque mission to spread poetry, comradeship, and democracy. After moving to the city he was joined by his wife Hedy, a skilled and promising but non-publishing poet who graduated from Naropa.		One of the more wide-ranging and intense literary venues of '70s San Francisco was The Cloud House, a live-work space hosted by Kush, a New Yorker with a Whitmanesque mission to spread poetry, comradeship, and democracy. After moving to the city he was joined by his wife Hedy, a skilled and promising but non-publishing poet who graduated from Naropa.
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	The walls were covered with art work, including portraits of Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and other mystics and modernists. Famous poets and unknown writers all spent time in the sage-scented circle of The Cloud House, reading and communing by kerosene lamp, candles, or electric light. Readers and listeners came from all over the Bay Area, the country, and the world----an amazingly dedicated cross-section of "the underground," those mad bearers of truth who articulate, inspire, and cross-pollinate the great currents of progress, resistance, and cooperation.		The walls were covered with art work, including portraits of Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and other mystics and modernists. Famous poets and unknown writers all spent time in the sage-scented circle of The Cloud House, reading and communing by kerosene lamp, candles, or electric light. Readers and listeners came from all over the Bay Area, the country, and the world----an amazingly dedicated cross-section of "the underground," those mad bearers of truth who articulate, inspire, and cross-pollinate the great currents of progress, resistance, and cooperation.

	The heyday of The Cloud House was the late 1970s at 3253 Sixteenth Street, between Guerrero and Dolores. This storefront was eventually taken over by a real estate office, and Kush moved his scene to the Talking Leaves bookstore at 99 Sanchez Street (formerly the site of Panjandrum Books). He later moved to The Farm, a venerable house of community activism next to the freeway at Army and Bayshore, then had a good run on Laussat Street, an alley near Haight and Fillmore Streets, in the late '80s and early '90s, when the weekly round-robins finally came to an end after another move to Pine and Franklin Streets.		The heyday of The Cloud House was the late 1970s at 3253 Sixteenth Street, between Guerrero and Dolores. This storefront was eventually taken over by a real estate office, and Kush moved his scene to the Talking Leaves bookstore at 99 Sanchez Street (formerly the site of Panjandrum Books). He later moved to [[The Farm\|The Farm]], a venerable house of community activism next to the freeway at Army and Bayshore, then had a good run on Laussat Street, an alley near Haight and Fillmore Streets, in the late '80s and early '90s, when the weekly round-robins finally came to an end after another move to Pine and Franklin Streets.

	Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for Allen Ginsberg. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.

	~~''--Richard Hack, ''Oxygen~~

	~~Magazine~~''~~, March 19, 1997~~ ''		Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for [[Allen Ginsberg\|Allen Ginsberg]]. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.

	~~Contributors to this page include:~~		''--Richard Hack, '''Oxygen Magazine''', March 19, 1997 ''

	~~''City Lights Books,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer ''~~

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'''Cloud House continued a long tradition of open poetry readings in San Francisco, as seen here in a Grant Avenue Street Fair in 1959.'''

One of the more wide-ranging and intense literary venues of '70s San Francisco was The Cloud House, a live-work space hosted by Kush, a New Yorker with a Whitmanesque mission to spread poetry, comradeship, and democracy. After moving to the city he was joined by his wife Hedy, a skilled and promising but non-publishing poet who graduated from Naropa.

The Cloud House ran Thursday night round-robins for more than a decade in and around the Mission district. There was always an air of intense devotion to literature and to social and spiritual goals. Readers identified themselves by first name only, and took turns reading their own and others' work until everyone's appetite for poetry was satisfied. The tone was musical, erotic, intellectual, outspoken, political, and visionary--an open reading with pizzazz, with a resonant connection to the traditions of world culture.

The walls were covered with art work, including portraits of Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and other mystics and modernists. Famous poets and unknown writers all spent time in the sage-scented circle of The Cloud House, reading and communing by kerosene lamp, candles, or electric light. Readers and listeners came from all over the Bay Area, the country, and the world----an amazingly dedicated cross-section of "the underground," those mad bearers of truth who articulate, inspire, and cross-pollinate the great currents of progress, resistance, and cooperation.

The heyday of The Cloud House was the late 1970s at 3253 Sixteenth Street, between Guerrero and Dolores. This storefront was eventually taken over by a real estate office, and Kush moved his scene to the Talking Leaves bookstore at 99 Sanchez Street (formerly the site of Panjandrum Books). He later moved to The Farm, a venerable house of community activism next to the freeway at Army and Bayshore, then had a good run on Laussat Street, an alley near Haight and Fillmore Streets, in the late '80s and early '90s, when the weekly round-robins finally came to an end after another move to Pine and Franklin Streets.

Kush published a few anthologies of Cloud House writers, including ''What Is Real''? and ''Blake Times''. He taught anthropology at New College of California for years and has done archiving work for Allen Ginsberg. He has videotaped tons of public readings since the early 1980s, and has accumulated an unequaled record of the Bay Area poetry scene.

''--Richard Hack, ''Oxygen

Magazine'', March 19, 1997 ''

Contributors to this page include:

''City Lights Books,San Francisco,CA - Publisher or Photographer ''

Hack,Richard - Writer

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