"The Dial-a-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt" (1976)

New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (double LP), 1976.
12.25" x 12.25" x 0.25", thirty-seven tracks on two LPs, gatefold cover, no insert. "GPS 008-009".

The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt, a compilation of poets and writers on LP, as produced and released by John Giorno's Giorno Poetry Systems (New York City) in 1976. Album photos and design by Les Levine, and mechanical production by Catherine Levine. Created with the support of The Coordinating Council on Literary Magazines with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the New York State Council on the Arts. 

William S. Burroughs contributes “When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President”, track 3 of side 1, recorded at St. Mark's Church, New York, 19 November 1975.

In addition, Burroughs contributes the "notes" at the top of the gatefold:

"(1) How long can the present situation be expected to continue? Ten years at most. (2) And then? Our plans must be completed 5 years before this date. (3) If our plans are not completed? There would be no time after 1980 unless plan is operational within a year (4) Is this a realistic approach? Yes. (5) Is a resolution of the few and the many possible? Not in present terms of democratic representation. The many swamp the few, and then are without leaders. (6) Does the board know what is actually going on? They think they know. Deceit within deceit within deceit. (7) Are we prepared to take the necessary measures? Some of us are. The other board members will not be informed of the necessary measures."

Side 1 Track Listing (31'54"):

1. Charles Bukowski: "Cloud Nine, I Live in a Neighborhood of Murderers, Two Horse Collars" (3'09")
2. Ed Dorn: "excerpts from Gunslinger, Book 4" (3'48")
3. William S. Burroughs: "When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President" (7'07")
4. Sylvia Plath: "Daddy" (3'43")
5. John Giorno: "excerpts from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus & Brains" (8'03")
6. Michael McClure: "from Jaguar Sky: There's Cruelty in Every Jewel" (0'44")
7. Michael Brownstein: "Jet Set Melodrama" (2'36")
8. Jackie Curtis: "You Are My Lucky Star" (2'18")

Side 2 Track Listing (31'58"):

1. Ed Sanders: "This Is the Age of Investigation Poetry and Every Citizen Must Investigate" (5'50")
2. Charles Bukowski: "Christ, You'll Never Know, The Closing of the Topless ande [sic] Bottomless Bars" (4'45")
3. Anne Waldman: "Some Small Fires" (4'06")
4. Imamu Amiri Baraka: "from Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President and Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, a New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie" (3'37")
5. Erica Huggins: "For a Woman" (0'59")
6. Ken Kesey: " A Brief Discourse" (5'04")
7. Jackson MacLow: "excerpt from Guru, Guru, Gate" (2'05")
8. Charles Amirkhanian: "Mushrooms (for John Cage)" (4'58")

Side 3 Track Listing (32'54"):

1. William Carlow Williams: "The Yellow Flower, from Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" (3'02")
2. Allen Ginsberg: "Please Master" (4'40")
3. Imamu Amiri Baraka: "from Hard Facts: New York Is Everywhere Big" (1'58")
4. Frank O'Hara: "To the Film Industry in Crisis" (3'50")
5. Taylor Mead: "I Was in a Drugstore" (3'33")
6. Jackie Curtis: "The All-American Vampire or How the Bee Sucks" (3'36")
7. Jack Spicer: "from The Holy Grail: The Book of the Death of Arthur" (5'14")
8. John Cage: "Song, Delivered from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau" (6'30")

Side 4 Track Listing (31'50"):

1. Tom Weatherly: "Mud Water Shango, Blues for Frank Swooton" (1'42")
2. Joanne Kyger: "In All This Everyday" (3'31")
3. Charles Olson: "Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester" (3'15")
4. W. S. Merwin: "Fear" (5'23")
5. Maureen Owen: "When You're Down and Under" (1'02")
6. Jerome Rothenberg: "The Opening of the Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation from the Navajo" (2'10")
7. Ted Berrigan: "Today in Ann Arbor" (2'59")
8. Susan Howe: "There Is No Good on Earth and Sin Is but a Name" (1'00")
9. Rochelle Owens: "excerpt from The Joe Chronicles, Part 2" (2'25")
10. Bill Knott: "Corpse and Beans" (0'30")
11. Tony Towle: "New York Letters" (1'25")
12. Bernard Heidsieck: "Stratimelo" (2'00")
13. Peter Orlovsky: "Compost Piles" (3'49")