[Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich in 2007 - Photograph by Cirrelda Snider-Bryan]
The remarkable, wonderful, Joanne Kyger, turns eighty-years-old today! - Impossible to believe! - Happy Birthday, dear Joanne!
Don't miss our previous links-rich Kyger-birthday-postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project here, here and here
Here's Allen's vintage (March 1962) photo - (his caption): "Joanne Kyger, hills leading to Himalayan Peaks, studying guidebook on wall in Amora, we were on Pilgrimage to Buddhist sites, here visiting Lama Govinda.."
Some recent video(s) - Joanne on her colorful West Coast history (as part of a panel at the recent (May 2014) Cascadia Poetry Festival) - here (starting approximately five-and-half minutes in)
and
her presentation at last month's Richard Brautigan symposium at UC Berkeley, "I Watched The World…30 Years After Brautigan"
(Joanne's contribution comes approximately forty-eight-and-three-quarter minutes in) -
"(I'm) reading from some prepared notes, briefly. If I don't read from them, you just might find me with my jaw hanging open in the middle of a reminiscence!'' - Also on the panel on this occasion, David Meltzer and Michael McClure.