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February 28 - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg & Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, Mackey Auditorium, Boulder Colorado, May 1972. photographer unknown] Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Birthday today - had he lived he would have been 74.For...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 115
[Lucien Carr & friends, with one of his sons, either Caleb or Simon, East 9th St & 3rd Ave , NYC 1959 . Still from "Untitled Kerouac Ginsberg Carr and Friends film"]Lucien Carr's birthday...
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Allen & Prabhupada (Krishna Weekend 1)
Krishna WeekendOur previous posting on Allen and Krishna Consciousness can be found hereThis weekend we focus on his visit to (and meeting with) A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Columbus, Ohio,...
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Allen & Prabhupada (Krishna Weekend 2)
Here's a surprisingly rare document. Allen's introduction to the 1968 Collier-MacMillan edition of A.C.. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita - Bhagavad Gita As It Is - Swami Bhaktivedanta...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 45 (James Shirley)
[James Shirley (1596-1666)]AG: My own favorite poem of this genre [song] is one by James Shirley, dated 1659, which I used in travelling with (Bob) Dylan as a key lyric, to set aside his own lyrics,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 46 (Carew and Waller)
[Thomas Carew (1595-1640)] AG: The reason I’ve been going through all this poetry is that I’ve been proposing, in a sense, to teach modern poetics, or improvised or spontaneous poetics, but what I’m...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 47 (Shelley and Hart Crane 1)
[Joseph Severn (1793- 1879) Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus UnBound (1845), oil on canvas, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy]AG: We were onto the subject of time and breath...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg-Brian Shields 1987 Dallas Radio Interview
BS: Welcome to People - Brian Shields - KRLD News. This week on People, we’re talking with Allen Ginsberg. Now if you haven’t heard of Allen Ginsberg, one wonders where you’ve been for the past 20-25...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 116
There's going to be a big new William Burroughs show opening next week in Hamburg, at the Deichtorhallen (from March 15 - August 18), curated by Udo Breger and Axel Heil- "The exhibition's goal is to...
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UMass Kerouac Tapes & Lowell Portfolio
[Jack Kerouac in Fred W. McDarrah's apartment, Dec. 10, 1959. Copyright: Fred McDarrah/Getty Images]University of Massachusetts, Lowell, is increasingly becoming an important Kerouac nexus, and a visit...
View ArticleJack Kerouac Peggy Lee and Billie Holiday
Jack Kerouac's Birthday tomorrow. We thought we'd begin the celebrations with this. Jack, goofy and happy, singing a pretty free-form (actually, a seriously free-form!) rendition of (the "Roaring...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 48 ( Shelley and Hart Crane 2)
June 23, 1976, (Naropa Institute), a new class. Allen picks up from the previous class, with a discussion on Hart Crane and Shelley and a poetry that might be life-affirming and "speakable".AG: I...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 49 - A Brief Survey of Haiku
This [Allen hands out a home-made xerox-ed collection] is a little anthology of choice haiku taken from the four-volume set of haiku in the library collected by R.H.Blyth - Spring, Summer, Winter,...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 117
The Line Has Shattered Robert McTavish's hour-long documentary onthe legendary 1963Vancouver Poetry Conference premieres next Thursday in Vancouver at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Center (Simon...
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Allen Ginsberg - Haiku
From Allen's Journals(Fall, 1955):"1) All conversation - "I need a spoon to eat soup" - is bridging Ellipse, all my talk is haiku 2) The Western image (metaphor the apt relation of...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 50 (Revisiting Reznikoff - 1)
[Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)] We continue with our transcription of Allen's June 23 1976 Naropa class. He moves on from haiku (see here) to a discussion of one of his favorite '"close attention"...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 51 (Revisiting Reznikoff - 2)
[Charles Reznikoff, circa 1975, reading as part of the New York City "Poetry In the Parks" Program, courtesy the Archives of The Academy of American Poets]AG: [surveying The Complete Poems of Charles...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 52 (David Cope)
[David Cope, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1995 - photograph by Allen Ginsberg c. Allen Ginsberg Estate]AG: [Allen reads from the then freshly-published poetry-collection, "The Stars" by David Cope] -...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 53 (Revisiting Reznikoff - 3)
[Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) - photograph courtesy New Directions]AG: I do want to get back to (Charles) Reznikoffbecause, okay, we had a little haiku, and then we had a little sharp fast...
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