'66 Frames: A Memoir.  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, l999.

Journals Mid-Fifties (l954-l958) by Allen Ginsberg. New York: Harper Collins, l995.  (Edited, with introduction and notes.)

Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties by Allen Ginsberg.  New York: Grove Press, l977; l992.  (Edited, with introduction and notes.)  Translations: French and German.

  Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness by Allen Ginsberg.  New York: McGraw-Hill, l974.  (Edited, with introduction and notes.)  Translation: Japanese.

ARTICLES:

"On Felver's Photography."  American Book Review.  (Forthcoming)

"Introduction" to  Ginsberg at Evergreen: An Extended Interview by Leo Daugherty.  Charlottesville, Virginia: Northwood Press, 2000.            

"Allen Ginsberg." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin.  New York: Continuum, l999. 442-445.

"Remembering Shig Murao."  San Francisco Chronicle.  October 27, l999.

"A One-Man Generation."  The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats.  Ed. Holly George Warren.  New York: Hyperion, l999. 241-246.  (Published as chapbook, White Fields Press, August l994).

"Saying Goodbye to Allen."  The Chronicle of Higher Education.  October 24, l997.  B76.

"Introduction to `The Beats: Talking Continuously.'" San Jose Studies 19.3 (l993): 23-28.

"Allen Ginsberg and Charles Reznikoff,"  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference: New Trends in American Studies.  Ed. Marta Gibinska and Zygmunt Mazur.  Kraków: Jagiellonian University, l992.  261-275.

"Wide Open and Intimate: Allen Ginsberg in California." SwissAir Gazette January l992: 42-47.

"Ginsberg and Revolution,"  Selected Essays: International Conference on Representing Revolution.  Ed. John Michael Crafton.  Carrollton, Georgia:  West Georgia College, 199l.  l37-l49.

"Jack Kerouac," Dictionary of American Biography, published under the Auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, l988.

Review of The Rhetoric of American Romance: Dialectic and Identity in Emerson, Dickinson, Poe, and Hawthorne, by Evan Carton.  South Atlantic Review 52.l  (l987): l33-l37.

"My America, My South," Sophia: Studies in Western

Civilization and the Cultural Interaction of East and West 33 (l984): 56-57.

"Doors in Leaves of Grass."  Calamus 26 (l984): 2l-24.

"Corso's Triumphant Surrender."  Review of Herald of the Autocthonic Spirit, by Gregory Corso.  American Book Review 5.5 (l983): l8.

"Taylor Mead."  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Vol. l6: The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America.  Ed. Ann Charters.  Detroit: Gale Research, l983.  400-404.

"Allen Ginsberg and the Progress of Poetry," English Literature and Language.  Tokyo: Sophia University, l983.  43-54.

"Kerplunk!  Beat Generation Meets Japan."  Japan Times 5 June l983: l4.

"Jonas Mekas and the Experimental Film in America."  An Introduction to Film Criticism.  Ed. Jeffrey H. Richards.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, l977.  l38-l56. 

CREATIVE WRITING:

"Bopsie" (creative nonfiction).  Southern Quarterly 37.2 (Winter l999): 186-l88.

"The Story of Beowulf" (adaptation from Old English) in Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All.  Eds. Jonathan Cott and Mary Gimbel.  New York: Summit Books, l980.  70-79.

"Yr 20th Birthday" (poem).  Carolina Quarterly 29.l (l977):72.

"Woeful Cowboy" (story).  The Sun: North Carolina's Magazine of Ideas 1.12 (l975).  33.  Reprinted, Sitting Frog: Poetry of Naropa Institute.  Eds. Rachel Peters and Eero Ruuttila.  Boulder: Naropa Institute, l976. 2-3.

"Is this Bolinas" (poem). Buffalo Stamps 3/4 (l972): l5.

INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED:

"So Where Are We Now?  An Interview with Jonas Mekas."  Journal of Fine Arts l.2 (l980): 29-34.

"Very Essential Cinema: An Interview with Jonas Mekas."New Lazarus Review 2.l (l979).  5-11.

"Triptape: An Interview with Richard Aldcroft."  Film Culture 43 (winter l966): 4-5.

 INTERVIEWS GIVEN:

On Bob Dylan Nobel Prize nomination: May 30, 200l, Daeg Bladt (Oslo).  October l996: BBC Radio (London); Monitor Radio; Asahi Evening News (Tokyo); Minneapolis Radio; Sydney, Australia Radio; WDBJ-TV (Roanoke, Virginia).

On '66 Frames and Dylan nomination: "With Good Reason" (Virginia National Public Radio), November l999.  

PAPERS, READINGS, AND LECTURE/SCREENINGS

Guest Lecture, "Corso and the Beats," Washington and Lee University, Professor Settle's Atomic Bomb Seminar, March 2000, 200l, and 2002 (forthcoming).

"Mexican Jail Footage" (Ball's film), presented and discussed at Fifth International Congress of the Americas, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 2001; American Literature Association conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March l997.

"Ginsberg at Evergreen" panel, Old Dominion Bookstore, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 2000.

Readings from '66 Frames: Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, Missouri, March 2001 (with film showing and photo exhibit); Virginia Festival of the Book, March 2000; Anthology Film Archives (with film showing) and Cornelia Cafe (with film showing), New York City, May and November 1999; various bookstores on East Coast May and October 1999 including Barnes & Noble (New York) and Borders (Washington and Winston-Salem); City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, and San Francisco Cinematheque (with film showing), Regulator Bookstore, Durham, North Carolina, April 1999.

"Robert Frank's Me and My Brother," Virginia Festial of American Film, Charlottesville, Virginia, October l998.

"Saying Goodbye to Allen," Cherry Valley Arts Festival, Cherry Valley, N.Y., August l998; Kerouac Festival, Lowell, Mass., October l997; Ginsberg Memorial, Woodward Auditorium, Los Angeles, June l997. 

"Allen Ginsberg's Life and Work," Dupont Auditorium, Washington and Lee University, April l998

Guest Lecture, Department of English Seminar on the Beat Generation, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, April 4, l997.

  "Ginsberg's Journals Mid-Fifties," James Madison University, April 3, l997.

"On Writing Poetry" (workshop), Martinsville High School, Martinsville, Virginia, February l997.

"Working with Allen Ginsberg," Beats and Other Rebel Angels Conference, Naropa Institute, Boulder Colorado, July 7, l994.

"Beat Legacy, Connections, Influences: Allen Ginsberg," The Beat Generation Conference, New York University, May 21, l994.

"Do Poznania," April Conference Six, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, April 3, 1993.

"Introduction to `The Beats: Talking Continuously,'" San Jose Beat Generation Conference, San Jose State University, September 23, l992.

Invited to screen and discuss my own work in film, French Association for American Studies convention, University of Grenoble, May 22-24, l992 (travel funds cut).

"Poetry at Work in the World,"  Hargrave Military Academy, Chatham, Virginia, March 6, l992. 

"Introduction to Experimental Film," Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, February l3, l992.

Invited to present paper on censorship at French Association for American Studies convention, University of Nice, May 2l-23, 1991 (travel funds cut).

Chair, l99l Modern Language Association Convention Special Session:  "Ginsberg's Kaddish After Three Decades." San Francisco, December 28, l99l. (Panelists Helen Vendler, Czeslaw Milosz, Barry Miles, Lewis Hyde).

Literature Judging and Film Screening: Davidson College, for the Charles Lloyd Award in Nonfiction; screening of Ball's film "Do Poznania" in seminar in Eastern European Literature, April l8, l99l.   

Introductions and discussions, screenings of Ball's "Do Poznania" (premiere) and Maysles' Grey Gardens, Virginia Festival of American Film, Charlottesville, October 25, l990.

Film Festival Judge, Sinking Creek Independent Film and Video Celebration, Greeneville, Tennessee, April 25-28 l990.

"Allen Ginsberg and Charles Reznikoff," April Conference Five, Jagiellonain University, Krakow, Poland, April 6, l990.

"Ginsberg and Revolution," International Conference on Representing Revolution in Literature and the Visual Arts, October ll-l4, l989, Atlanta, Georgia.

"An Introduction to Avant-Garde Film," Virginia Military Institute, March 25, l990;Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, December 4, l987; Tougaloo College, April l, l986, April 2, l987; Old Dominion University, November 6, l983.

Chair, "Ginsberg's Howl: Thirty Years Later," Modern Language Association convention special session, New York City, December 29, l986.  (Panelists Ann Charters, Marjorie Perloff, Barry Miles, Laszlo Gefin).

"Allen Ginsberg in His Times," Rhodes College Literary Arts Festival, Memphis, Tennessee, April 29, l986.

"Recent Independent Films from the American South," Japan-United States Educational Commission, Tokyo, June l6, l983; American Center, Kyoto, June 30; Japanese Intercultural Communication Society, Tokyo, July 8 and October 3l, l983.

"The Influence of Japanese Religion and Literature on America's Beat Generation," Doshisha  University American Studies Center, Kyoto, June 30, l983; Keio University, Tokyo, November l4, l983.

"Allen Ginsberg: Putting a Shoulder to the Wheel of American Life and Letters," American Literature Society of Japan Annual Convention, Nagasaki, October l5, l983; Japan American Literature Society, Hokkaido Chapter, Sapporo, November ll, l983.

"Allen Ginsberg: Poetry, Prose, and Public Works," Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, November l2, l983.

"My America, My South," Society for the Study of Southern American Culture, Tokyo, December l8, l983.

"Editing Ginsberg's Journals," Modern Language Association convention special session on the journal, Houston Texas, December 29, l980.                                                   

LITERARY AWARDS      

Vereen Bell Prize for Creative Writing, Davidson College, l963 (Judge: Reynolds Price)

Pulitzer Prize Nomination, Allen Verbatim, l974

SCHOLARLY AWARDS 

Matthew Fontaine Maury Research Award for Excellence in Stimulating, Encouraging, and Conducting Research at Virginia Military Institute, l992 

Fulbright Specialist Lectureship in American Literature. Sophia, Rikkyo, and Waseda universities, Tokyo, Japan, l983- l984

American Literature and Culture Specialist, English Seminar, Adam         
Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, summers l986 & l988

FILMMAKING

Fourteen films made independently since l966; showings in galleries, institutions,  museums, festivals, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York;  Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Third International Avant-Garde Film Festival, London; The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco;  The Cinematheque Image Forum and Studio 200, Tokyo; Kyoto Cinematheque, Duke University; College of William and Mary; The Ann Arbor Film Festival; The Virginia Festival of American Film; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; Old Dominion University

On national television: "The Independents" (introduced by Paul Mazursky), The Learning Channel (cable) December l4, l986 (repeated)

FILMMAKING AWARDS:

Honorable Mention, North Carolina Film Festival, l977

Cash Award, FilmSouth, l979

Cash Award, Sinking Creek Film Celebration, l980

Jurors' Prize, North Carolina Film Festival, l98l

Director's Choice, Atlanta Film Festival, l98l

Honorable Mention, Big Muddy Film Festival, l982

Honorable Mention, Atlanta Film and Video Fetival, l985

Filmmaking Grant, Alabama Filmmakers' Cooperative, l983

Filmmaking Grant, Jackson-Hinds County Arts Alliance, l986                            
Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship, l988-89

Southeast Media Fellowship, Appalshop and the 
Virginia Commission for the Arts, l990

ARTICLES ON FILMS 

Linda S. Dubler, "Gordon Ball--Portrait of a Filmmaker." 

Art Papers,  January-February l98l

Tony Stein, "He Has a Different Focus." Ledger-Star (Norfolk, VA), January 29, l982      
     

Kyoko Hirano, "On Gordon Ball's Films." Image Forum, Summer 1985                                                           

Stephen Young, "Do Poznania: A Film By Gordon Ball."  Art

Papers, November-December, l99l 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Original photographs ("Ginsberg & Beat Fellows") have been exhibited in numerous venues l994 through present, including: New York University Gallery of Art, l994; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, l995; Night Owl Music, Lexington, Virginia, l996; Great Modern Pictures, New York, l997; Brush Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts, l997;  University Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virignia, l997; Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, l998; City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, l999; Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, Missouri, 200l.

    
Ball's photos have appeared in numerous books, including Dennis McNally's Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America; Rick Fields' How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America; Michael Köhler's Burroughs: Eine Bild Biographie; Carole Tonkinson's Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation;  Steven Watson's The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, l994-l960; and the Rolling Stone Book of the Beats.

Periodicals publications include: New York Times Sunday magazine, January 4, l998; DoubleTake (fall l996: two pages for one photo); the Chronicle of Higher Education (October 24, l998); Utne Reader (December l998); Teachers and Writers (November-December 200l); College Literature (winter 2000; cover photograph).

Photos are also exhibited on the web, in Ball's "Ginsberg & Beat Fellows Gallery" at <www.beatnews.org.>  His home page, devoted in part to '66 Frames and his films, is on the same site.    

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