Wholly Communion film screening and poetry reading: Janaka Stucky

50th anniversary screening and poetry reading by alum Janaka Stucky.

Directed by Peter Whitehead, documentary, UK, 33 min, 1965, 35mm.

A short film documenting what was referred to as “The International Poetry Incarnation.” It was billed as Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening,” with the world’s leading Beat poets coming together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties. Poetry reading by alum Janaka Stucky, participant in the Poetry Reincarnation 50th anniversary event in London this past spring, to follow. Co-sponsored by Emerson University’s Department of Writing Literature and Publishing.