[Janus - The (Roman) God of Looking Forward (to the Future) and simultaneously Backwards (to the Past)]
Bidding adieu to 2014, we look back on some of the Allen Ginsberg Project posts of the past year. Well, they're all important (you should spend quality time in our archives), but here's (and they are, we stress, admittedly, kind of random) a few "selected highlights":
January saw Allen's class on John Wieners, Robert Creeley's Selected Letters,Fernando Pessoa, Pete Seeger, and that photo-sale to the University of Toronto
February - William Burroughs' birthday (well, the whole year actually, it was the William Burroughs Centennial), Neal Cassady's birthday too - and don't miss our tenderest Valentine
Kerouac's birthday, Ferlinghetti's birthday, Corso's birthday, in March
April, we began on the Russians - Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Esenin…
May - Gary Snyder, Bob Dylan, and Walt Whitmanall have birthdays
June - Allen Ginsberg's birthday - and Peter Orlovsky has a new (posthumous) book - and Allen shoots the breeze with Ram Dass, gets agitated in Ireland, gives a stunning reading in Portland
July - Alex Katz,John Ashbery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Verlaine
August - Andre Breton and Jack Kerouac and Jazz with Sam Charters
September - Antonin Artaud, Nicanor Parra at 100, Joni MitchellandLeonard Cohen (at 80)
October it'sJohn Lennon,John Sinclair, Lenny Bruce, and another rip-roaring archival reading (this time at Texas State)
oh, and not forgettingGerd Stern andthe Joan Anderson Letter, Gelek Rinpoche turning 75, Dylan Thomas (if he'd been alive) turning 100
November - Francesco Clemente in India, Meditation and Poetics,Allen (rare footage from Scotland)
December - More meditation - Vintage Beat Generation - The Lion For Real
and the show continues…
See you next year!
Happy New Year, everyone!