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Ted Berrigan's Birthday
[Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)]Ted Berrigan's birthday. Ted adored Allen. Alongside the late-lamented Frank O'Hara, he was the one. Ted had this embarrassingly patriotic poetic tribal conceit, and...
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Stay Away From The White House
"Stay Away From The White House", a new (videotaped) version (with Dutch sub-titles) has emerged, from 1980, taken off Dutch television. The original is from the San Francisco State University Poetry...
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Joanne Kyger's Birthday
Happy Birthday! - Happy Scorpio Birthday - Joanne! - It's the birthday today of the great Joanne Kyger. Her 2012 reading at the St Marks Poetry Project may be viewed hereA Naropa reading from the same...
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Allen Ginsberg Reads Terry Southern
[Allen Ginsberg reading the "Give Me Your Hump" script, February 13, 1997 - photograph - Michael Minzer]Terry Southern reading from "Flash and Filagree"- "The Clinic" (included on the album, "Give Me...
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Another Ginsberg Meme/Jane Kramer
November 21 - Elsa Dorfman's photo and Allen Ginsberg's signature - now another November 21 rolls by. Today, we thought we'd take time off to address another of those pesky memes. You know, "famous...
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[Doris Lessing (1919-2013), in Philip Glass' kitchen, New York City, March 10, 1990 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Nobel-prizewinning author Doris Lessing, who died...
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Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman Reading (Naropa, April 1977)
We've already featured them reading together before - from 1974 here, and from 1976, here, but here, from 1977 is vintage audio of Allen and Anne Waldman reading. Allen begins, thanking his sponsors...
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Ron Padgett's Collected Poems
It's a red-letter day! (or, to be accurate, a red-and-black letters day, on a plain cream-white background!). Coffee House Press have just published, in one 800-plus single volume, The Collected Poems...
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Jonas Mekas - (October 1987 - Allen Ginsberg)
From October 1987 - from Jonas Mekas' Video Diary. See here for the Video Diary Allen reads from Cosmopolitan Greetings, despite the indifference of little Sebastian, in Jonas Mekas'...
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It Don't Pay To Be An Honest Citizen, Jacob Burckhardt's 1985 movie with Reed Bye, Yoshiko Chuma, David Brisbin, Vincent D'Onofrio, and cameos by both Allen ("Sidney the lawyer") and William Burroughs...
View ArticleManhattan Poetry Video Project 1984
Rose Lesniak's Manhattan Poetry Video Project, from 1984 (three poetry-videos, Allen Ginsberg,Anne Waldman, and Bob Holman) was, unquestionably, pioneering in its time. This was a good decade-and-more...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Prayer
Time once again for an old favorite - Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! ok - tell it like it is, William! (with film footage/juxtaposition by Gus Van Sant) "Thanksgiving Day November 28 1986" Thanks for...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 154
"America, I am the Scottsboro Boys", Allen famously declared in one of the many memorable lines in his classic 1956 poem, America. This past November 21 (last Thursday) the Alabama Board of Pardons...
View ArticlePoetry and Madness at Esalen 1968
"Losing Your Mind To Come To Your Senses" - today some vintage audio from theEsalen Institute in Big Sur, from the 'Sixties (1968) - Poetry and Madness - a symposium - The panel (introduced by research...
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Expansive Poetics - 1 - (An Anthology of Twentieth Century International...
We begin today a new Naropa transcript. Transcription from 1981 of Allen’s "Expansive Poetics" class. AG: (So).. the idea was what to teach [at Naropa] this summer. Leslea Newman or someone had...
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Expansive Poetics - 2 (An Anthology of Twentieth-Century International Heroic...
Allen, continuing from yesterdayAG: The procedure for this class that I thought would be best would be (that) within a week the entire anthology (The Naropa Anthology of Twentieth-Century International...
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Expansive Poetics - 3 (Aboriginal Introduction)
AG: So for this [Naropa class on Expansive Poetics]. I thought I'd bring in a little bit of material that is extraneous, but is considered precursor. This is fromGeza Roheim's"Children of the Desert"...
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Expansive Poetics - 4 (Shelley's "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty")
[Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) AG: The other precursor, to get ahead in time to the 19th Century is (Percy Bysshe) Shelley, who, I guess, is more or less familiar to most of you. How many of you...
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Kill Your Darlings Reviews Digest 2
[E gli ippopotami si sono lessati nelle loro vasche (And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks) - 2013 Italian edition of the collaborative novel published by William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac]Bill...
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Kill Your Darlings (we hadn't actually mentioned it for a couple of weeks!) opens in the UK and Ireland today (It opened in Australiayesterday). We'd draw your attention, if you missed them, to a few...
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