Audiovisual recording of the Friday Open Microphone Session from the 5th Annual UND Writers Conference, which took place on March 22, 1974. In this footage, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti discuss various topics, including subsistence farming, agri-business, environmental issues, the drug trade and its political impact, as well as strip-mining, particularly in reference to western North Dakota. In addition, Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads Neruda in Spanish
