Ginsberg-Ram Dass Weekend - 1
Ram Dass and Allen in conversation in the early 1980's discuss the 'Sixties and lessons learnt - the dangers of polarization, the challenges in breaking out from social norms. This transcript will be...
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The Ram Dass/Allen Ginsberg conversation continues. For the first part of this interview see hereRD: Do you think that America is still, in a way, (at the) forefront, in terms of bringing together what...
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"I'm Going To Vote For Ronald Reagan Because…" (Naropa Classroom...
Every so often, as part of his teaching practice in his classes at Naropa, Allen would instigate a class poem, a group poem, typically insisting that everyone take a hand at spontaneously completing...
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Expansive Poetics - 63 (Kurt Schwitters 2)
Allen continues his lecture/remarks on Kurt Schwitters, returning to a singular moment in Schwitters' biography, (as recounted in Robert Motherwell's classic The Dada Painters and Poets - An...
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Expansive Poetics- 64 (Sound Poetry - Kurt Schwitters, Ernst Jandl)
[Kurt Schwitters - from the Elterwater (English) "Merz Barn"] (1947-1948 (uncompleted)AG: So this [Allen is referring to the Marinetti-Schwitters impromptu readings - see here]is (19)32, and it's...
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Expansive Poetics - 65 (1965 London Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation)
[Ernst Jandl (and Michael Horovitz) at the International Poetry Incarnation at The Royal Albert Hall in London, 1965]AG: There's a film actually...Student (CC): Wholly Communion. Yeah, I've seen it....
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 179
[Allen Ginsberg's signed copy of his Collected Poems 1947-1980) to the Living Theatre (Julian Beck and Judith Malina) - "On With the Show of Eternity!" - from the Living Theatre Archives - courtesy...
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First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
A classic Ginsberg poem from the 'Sixties, first published in the collection, Planet NewsFirst Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's AngelsCool black night thru redwoodscars parked outside in shadebehind...
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Expansive Poetics - 66 (The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam)
[Osip Mandelstam andAnna Akhmatova] Allen Ginsberg's August, 1981 Naropa class continues AG: The confrontation between the extreme Dada group and the Futurists and the actual leaders of the Nazi...
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Expansive Poetics- 67 (Symbolism & Imaginism)
Allen's Summer July/August 1981 Naropa class on "expansive" poetry (most especially, early twentieth-century Russian poetry) continues today with some preliminary "theoretical bullshit"AG: (So)....
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Expansive Poetics - 68 (Acmeism)
[Nikolay Gumilev, with his son Lev Gumilev and his wife Anna Akhmatova, 1913]Allen's July 30 1981 Expansive Poetics class (with particular emphasis on Russian literature) continues.AG: I thought what...
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Expansive Poetics - 69 (Georgi Ivanov)
[Georgy Ivanov (1894-1958), aged 27]AG: Then there's a remarkable poem, written in 1950 by somebody who was there, Georgy Ivanov - "fought in the First World War and in the Red Army and in the civil...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 180
[Bill Morgan, Joanne Kyger and Michael McClure at the San Francisco launch at City Lights Bookstore June 18 2014, for Peter Orlovsky - A Life In Words]Wednesday-night saw the launch in San Francisco of...
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Howl - Live At The Knitting Factory 1995
We've featured several versions on The Allen Ginsberg Project of Allen reading from his landmark poem, "Howl" (most recently, this one, reading with the Kronos Quartet (featuring a setting by the late...
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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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Expansive Poetics - 70 ( Osip Mandelstam)
Allen Ginsberg's class, July 1980 on Expansive Poetics (Russian Expansive Poetics) continues. Today's episode begins with some confusion with the text book, before Allen (and Peter) get down to...
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Expansive Poetics - 71 (1962 - Khruschev at the Manege Exhibition)
[Nikita Khruschev at the Moscow Union of Artists 30th Anniversary Exhibition at the Manege, Moscow, December 1, 1962]AG: "The way of the grave straightens a hunchback" - this is a Russian proverb...
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Expansive Poetics - 73 (Mandelstam - Late Poems)
[Statue of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1838) (by Lazar Gadayev (1938-2008)), erected 2008, in Voronezh, Russia] AG: Ah, what else is here? Has anybody read through this, the (Osip) Mandelstam section (in...
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Expansive Poetics - 74 - (Mandelstam And Stalin)
[Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) & Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)[Prisoners mining gold at Kolyma, the most notorious Gulag camp in extreme northeastern Siberia - from the 1934 documentary film, Kolyma,...
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Allen in the 'Sixties - Portland State College Readings
[Allen Ginsberg, April 23, 1969, at Portland State College - Photograph from Viking (PSU Yearbook, 1968-69), courtesy Portland State University Library's Special Collection] The big news last week,...
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