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Expansive Poetics - 69 - (More Khlebnikov 3)
[Velimir Khlebnikov, aged 30]AG: Let's see what else we've got. There was one [by Velimir Khlebnikov] that reminded me a lot of Gregory (Corso) (the reason I said some cross between Gregory Corso and...
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Robert Creeley's Birthday
[Robert Creeley in Maine, August 2004 - Photograph by Gloria Graham]Robert Creeley's birthday today. Here's some more selections from the recently-published Selected Letters of...
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More Khlebnikov - 4 (Manifesto of the Presidents of the Terrestrial Globe)
[Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)]AG: What else might we find here [in this Khlebnikov book]. Well, that's it for the moment, I think. I had some others that.. I'll need the book back if you can pass it...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 177
[Allen Ginsberg - c.1989 - Photograph byMarc Geller]Next weekend (next Sunday, June 1st) in New York City, Elodie Lauten's Ginsberg opera, Waking In New York, will be given a rare in situ public...
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Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
[Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1975, at the site of Jack Kerouac's grave - Photograph by Ken Regan]From the upcoming Peter Orlovsky, A Life In Words - Intimate...
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Expansive Poetry - 60 (More Khlebnikov - 5 - (A Group Reading)
AG: So now, as part of our Russian program, I wanted to continue with a little more Khlebnikov, with the poem about laughter, whichRichard Poe (sic) can pronounce (for us) in Russian. The text is on...
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Louis Ferdinand Celine (1894 -1961)
Today is the birthday ofLouis-Ferdinand Céline, born in Courbevoie, France, 120 years ago, author of Journey to the End of the Night(Voyage au bout de la nuit), "the first genius international beat...
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Some 1981 Naropa Planning
[Michael Brownstein][Bobbie-Louise Hawkins][Merrill Gilfillan] [Jack Kerouac]AG:... (Wednesday night there) will be (a) reading with Michael BrownsteinStudent: Seven p.m. in the library - freeAG: And...
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Harry Smith - Early Abstractions
[Harry Smith (1923-1991), at The Chelsea Hotel, aged 52] Harry Smith's Early Abstractions (1946-1957), in honor of what would have been his 91st birthday. Even in their severely-reduced You Tube...
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Peter Orlovsky Parinivana
[Peter Orlovsky, portrait for official documents, 1963, India. Photo Courtesy of the Peter Orlovsky Archive, University of Texas]May 30 is Peter Orlovsky's Parinivana. See our last year's posting in...
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Walt Whitman's Birthday
[Walt Whitman, 1863 - Photograph by Alexander Gardner - Alderman Library, University of Virginia] [Leaves of Grass, 1855 - courtesy The Walt Whitman Archive]Walt Whitman's Birthday Today. We...
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More Peter Orlovsky - (A Life In Words)
The St Marks Poetry Projecttonight (8 o'clock) sees the book-launch for Peter Orlovsky's A Life In Words (we've spoken already of the book here, citing some of the poems, here's a few (just a few) of...
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Allen Ginsberg's Birthday
Born Irwin Allen Ginsberg in Newark, New Jersey, June 3, 1926, Allen would have been 88 years old today.Happy Birthday, Allen! Happy Allen Ginsberg's Birthday, everyone.In celebration of an...
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Kousa Dogwood 2014
It's an annual Allen Ginsberg tradition - it's the flowering kousa dogwood, planted in his honor, by friends and supporters at the St Mark's Church (his"church" - home to the venerable St Mark's Poetry...
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Expansive Poetics - 61 - (Michael McClure)
GOOOOOOR! GOOOOOOOOOO! GOOOOOOOOOR!GRAHHH! GRAHH! GRAHH!Grah gooooor! Ghahh! Graaarr! Greeeeer! Grayowhr!GreeeeeeGRAHHRR! RAHHR! GRAGHHRR! RAHR!RAHRIRAHHR!...
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Expansive Poetics - 62 - (Kurt Schwitters - 1)
[Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) performing his "Ursonate", London. 1944 - photograph(s) by Ernst Schwitters] AG: (Kurt) Schwitters also, (listed under the Russian section [sic - of the classroom...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 178
Two weeks since the last "Round-Up", so let's get right down to it…Not-to-be-missed -Distant Neighbors, the Selected Letters between Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder, just published by Counterpoint. Watch...
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Expansive Poetics - 69 - (More Khlebnikov 3)
[Velimir Khlebnikov, aged 30]AG: Let's see what else we've got. There was one [by Velimir Khlebnikov] that reminded me a lot of Gregory (Corso) (the reason I said some cross between Gregory Corso and...
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Robert Creeley's Birthday
[Robert Creeley in Maine, August 2004 - Photograph by Gloria Graham]Robert Creeley's birthday today. Here's some more selections from the recently-published Selected Letters of...
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More Khlebnikov - 4 (Manifesto of the Presidents of the Terrestrial Globe)
[Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)]AG: What else might we find here [in this Khlebnikov book]. Well, that's it for the moment, I think. I had some others that.. I'll need the book back if you can pass it...
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