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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti c.1990 - Photograph by Eliot Greenspan]An article in The (London) Observer last month on San Francisco and the alarming effects of the dot.com boom,"Is San...
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Expansive Poetics 42 - (Edward Carpenter 4)
[Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - Photograph by Fred Holland Day]AG: The other poem of (Edward) Carpenter's we might as well do, while we're on Carpenter, is "The Secret of Time and Satan". The reason I...
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Gregory Corso's Birthday
[Gregory Corso, aged 31, Tangier, Morocco, July 1961 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - c. Allen Ginsberg Estate] [An Accidental Autobiography - The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso (edited by Bill...
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Expansive Poetics - 43 (Robert Duncan)
[Robert Duncan (1919-1988)]Allen's Expansive Poetics lecture continuing...AG: Now, the natural next one that I’d like to pick up on, the next text, I’d like to pick up on, is a jump almost a century...
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Expansive Poetics - 34 (Hart Crane 2 - Cape Hatteras)
[Hart Crane (1899-1932)]Then he (Hart Crane) goes directly into an address to Walt Whitman - or, in another section of the poem he has an address to Walt Whitman, in the "Cape Hatteras" section. He...
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Expansive Poetics - 35 - (Hart Crane 3 & Poe)
AG: And then there’s another funny passage right after that from (the section of “The Bridge”called) “The Tunnel” where (Hart) Crane also picks up on the image ofEdgar Allan Poe, whom we’ve already...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 170
William Burroughs Centennial - We'll begin with the above, a short biographical documentary put together by the Los Angeles Review of Books,featuring Burroughs' biographer, Barry Miles - "William S....
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Kronos Quartet - Howl, USA
[Kronos Quartet - Howl, USA (1996) Nonesuch Records - sleeve design Frank Olinsky]The Kronos Quartet's 1996 Nonesuch release "Howl, U.S.A." (with its distinctive Robert Mapplethorpe cover) has been...
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Mark Ewert
[Mark Ewert - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Mark Ewert’s colorful sexual revelations – “He lost his virginity to Allen Ginsberg and maintained an eight-year relationship...
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Barbara Rubin (1945-1980)
[top image - Allen Ginsberg and Barbara Rubin together at the Albert Monument, outside the Royal Albert Hall, London, May 1965, on the occasion of the First International Poetry Incarnation - bottom...
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Elise Cowen (1933-1962)
[Allen Ginsberg and Elise Cowen]Al Filreis informative over-view of this lost "Beat" figure (she committed suicide in 1962, aged 29), along with a couple of sample poems, may be read here. Leo Skir's...
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Anne Waldman's Birthday - (Manatee/Humanity)
Anne Waldman, born April 2, 1945, is (those magical numbers!) 69 years old today!For all your Anne Waldman needs go to Anne Waldman dot org, the official web-site for all things Anne Waldman(though,...
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Maretta Greer
[Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer and Gary Snyder at The Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1967 - Photograph by Leo Holub] [Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Maretta Greer...
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Chogyam Trungpa's Parinirvana
[Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987)It's Chogyam Trungpa's Parinirvana today. Here's footage, from seven years ago, of the opening of the twentieth anniversary parinirvana celebrations at the...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 171
[Iggy Pop and Johnny Depp - Photographs by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Iggy Pop interviewsJohnny Deppin the current Interview magazine (Vanity Fair’s Julie Miller also picked up on...
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Allen Ginsberg's Parinirvana
[Allen Ginsberg, Bob Rosenthal, James Grauerholz, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky - from Colin Still's No More To Say And Nothing To Weep For - An Elegy For Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 (1997)] Saturday...
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Expansive Poetics - 44 - (Mayakovsky - 1)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)]July 7, 1981, Allen Ginsberg's class on Expansive Poetics continuesAG: We were on (Robert) Duncan ("A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar"), and actually I read up...
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Expansive Poetics - 45 (Mayakovsky - 2)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914 - "Futurist Mayakovsky"]Пощёчина общественному вкусуЧитающим наше Новое Первое Неожиданное.Только мы — лицо нашего Времени. Рог времени трубит нами в словесном...
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Expansive Poetics - 46 (Mayakovsky - 3)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)]AG: I think what I'd like to do is skip to the suicide poem ["At The Top of My Voice'], just to get the correalation between the universal (and the personal). "At The...
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Expansive Poetics - 47 (Mayakovsky - 4)
[Vladimir Mayakovsky - Costume Art for the Seven Pairs of the Clean and the Seven Pairs of the Unclean from the production of his play, Mystery-Bouffe (1918/1921)] AG: Footnote..speaking of menage a...
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