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The Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Home Movie Collection

The Bobbie Louise Hawkins Home Movie Collection is an intimate and provocative visual history of an extraordinary and groundbreaking era in American literary culture. The collection consists of approximately 4,000 feet of 8mm and Super 8 film shot by Ms. Hawkins between the years of 1959 and 1975. These home movies include scenes of her family life, as well as her social and professional life with many prominent avant garde writers and artists of the period.

Hawkins has been a professor in the Writing and Poetics Department of Naropa University since 1987. A published writer and visual artist in her own right, Ms. Hawkins was also married to Robert Creeley, a well-known poet of the Black Mountain School. Friends and colleagues of Ms. Hawkins and Mr. Creeley included artists like Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, and Gary Snyder; San Francisco Renaissance writer Robert Duncan; Black Mountain writers Ed Dorn and Charles Olson; experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage; and performance artists Ed Sanders, the Fugs, John Cage and Merce Cunningham, to name just a few.