Good Morning, Mr Orwell
Thirty years ago today (January 1, 1984 - sic), video-pioneer Nam June Paikconceived of and presented "Good Morning Mr Orwell", a unique and unprecedented international live satellite hook-up,...
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One of Allen's sound-bytes from "No Direction Home" "(There is a) very famous saying among the Tibetan Buddhists, if the student is not better than the teacher then the teacher 's a failure, and I...
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Friday's Weekly Round Up -159
[Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs - Photograph byHank O'Neal]2014 is - in case you didn't know - the William Burroughs Centennial year (next month, February 5th, he would have turned 100), and,...
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Allen Ginsberg on John Wieners - part one
[Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, John Wieners, andDavid Meltzerin North Beach, San Francisco, 1958 - Photograph by Gui de Angulo (included in "Literary San Francisco - A Pictorial History from its...
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Allen Ginsberg on John Wieners - part two
[John Wieners, Gloucester, MA. 1999 - Photograph c. Jim Dunn]Allen Ginsberg on John Wieners part 2 - continues from here [Allen continues reading from "The Hotel Wentley Poems" beginning with a reading...
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John Wieners Birthday
[John Wieners in Gloucester, MA - Photograph c. Jim Dunn]It would have been John Wieners' 80th birthday today. For previous Wieners birthday shout-outs, see here and here. See also this posting,...
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Some Ginsberg Animation & Illustration
Here's a graphics-rendering of (the first part of) "Howl" (complete with Spanish sub-titles!) that's been up there on You Tube for over five years now. That means you may very well have watched it - It...
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Robert Creeley - Selected Letters
We've already noted the new titles, essential titles, by Robert Duncan. The University of California Press now publishes another essential book, this time fromRobert Creeley- "TheSelected Letters of...
View ArticleHuncke's Birthday
Happy BirthdayHerbert Huncke. Today, he would have been 99 years old (what! - next year, the Huncke Centennial!). Meantime, enjoy these two clips from our good friend and Huncke videographer, Laki...
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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
[Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones) at the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 2013 - Photo by Amun]Sad to have to report the news today (Thursday January 9) of the death of the great...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 160
"To Allen Ginsberg",Living Music's, long out-of-print, free-form, "acid-folk""avant-jazz", 1971 album, recorded for Italy's RCA's experimental imprint, "Free Dimension" and featuring the voice of...
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Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman 1978 Naropa Fund-Raiser
[Allen Ginsberg in Vancouver, Canada, 1978, (a year later) - Photograph c. David Boswell]Courtesy of the remarkable Naropa Audio Archives. We've featured Anne Waldman and Allen...
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Expansive Poetics - 12 (Walt Whitman - 1)
AG: With (Walt)Whitman what I want to do is.. With Whitman I thought now we’re getting into the heart of the 20th Century expansion and expansiveness. So what I’ll do next – this class and the next...
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Expansive Poetics - 13 - Walt Whitman - 2
[Walt Whitman (1819-1892), 1854]Student: (It) seems like sometimes he (Whitman)’s trying to make an attempt to justify himself, or says that what, what he’s doing, and just exactly what he’s doing, is...
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Expansive Poetics - 14 (Walt Whitman - 3)
["Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care" ]AG: Well, he (Whitman) says, in section 44 (of "Song of Myself") - "It is time to explain myself", at long last - "Let...
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Expansive Poetics - 15 - (Walt Whitman - 4)
[Walt Whitman (1819-1892), 1854 - Steel Engraving - Photograph by Samuel Hollyer of a lost Daguerrotype by Gabriel Harrison - "The engraving appeared in the 1855 and 1856 editions of "Leaves of Grass",...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 161
Thirteen years ago today since Gregory Nunzio Corso passed away. We certainly won't forget him. Here's the opening track from the album, "Not In My Back Yard" by the Southern Italian band, Nimby -...
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Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg Interview William Burroughs (Journal For The...
[William Seward Burroughs Tanger Villa Mouneria, 1961, his garden room, time of intense Cut-up prose experiments, Nova Express tracing controllers of hypertechnologic planetary disaster "along the...
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Expansive Poetics - 16 (Fernando Pessoa - 1)
[Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)] Allen's lecture from June 1981 on "Expansive Poetics"continuesAG: (Walt Whitman) - What sort of response did he get? This (Leaves of Grass, first edition) is 1855. What I...
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Expansive Poetics 17 - Fernando Pessoa - 2
[Portrait of Fernando Pessoa by Almada Negreiros, 1954]AG: "I'm going to take off my tie!"...Student: Wow, he was a pretty restricted guy!..AG: Yes, but in his imagination, Whitmanic... but funnier...
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