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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 190
"We Are Continually Exposed To The Flashbulb of Death" - The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg 1953-1996 continues at the University of Toronto Art Center. Barbara Fischer, the director of the Center...
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Joni Mitchell
[Joni Mitchell and Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, 1975 (from Sam Shepherd's Rolling Thunder Logbook (1977)]It was Allen, of course, who introduced Joni Mitchell to his...
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Leonard Cohen
[Leonard Cohen and Allen Ginsberg - "An encounter with Leonard Cohen after a poetry reading at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. c.1988 - " Cohen was in the audience and Allen was in the lobby...
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Expansive Poetics - 112 (Marsden Hartley 2 & Flowers)
AG: The first poem that we have at the beginning of the American section of the anthology(except for (Walt) Whitman), the first one that we got to put in there is a direct straightforward description...
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Expansive Poetics 113 - (Marsden Hartley - 3 )
AG: Ah, here's a trillium. It's got a little…Student (CC): FlowerAG: Uh-huh. Pass it around. Pass the little trillium around - [Allen continues reading Marsden Hartley's poem on Lewiston, Maine] -...
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Allen Ginsberg Punk Rocker (part one)
Note: These posts - "Allen Ginsberg Punk Rocker" (parts one and two) first appeared on The Allen Ginsberg Project on June 23, 2011, and, due to technical problems, are now being re-postedThe Sex...
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Allen Ginsberg Punk Rocker (part two)
[Allen Ginsberg and Joe Strummer, backstage at Bonds International Casino, Times Square, New York, June 10 1981 - photo c. Hank O'Neal.]Note: These posts - "Allen Ginsberg Punk Rocker" (parts one and...
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Expansive Poetics - 114 (Punk versus Beat)
[Iggy Pop][AG (to two exceptionally amorous students): If you guys are going to make love in my class.. I just get distracted all the time - sitting there hugging and kissing and fucking all the...
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Expansive Poetics - 115 (Jeff Nightbyrd)
[Jeff Nightbyrd/Jeff Shero]AG: [turning to Jeff Nightbyrd/Jeff Shero)] - You knewGeorge Demerly [FBI informant]?.Jeff Nightbyrd: Very wellAG: This, incidentally, is Jeff Nightbyrd, who was the editor...
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T.S.Eliot
[T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot (1888-1965)]T.S.Eliot's birthday today - 126 years later - Today is T.S. Eliot’s birthday – In ’58 Allen made him an honorary “Ignu” (“Eliot probably an ignu one of the few...
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William Burroughs at Naropa 1982 (Q & A - part one)
A few weeks back, we ran a transcript of the Willam Burroughs talk in 1982 at Naropa on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On The Road celebrations. The Q & A that followed now...
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William Burroughs at Naropa 1982 (Q & A - part two)
... in media res.. William Burroughs is talking about Joseph ConradWSB: ….oh he's a very great writer, my god! He's a great creator of character. You can see the characters - Elmer, Lingard... Not...
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Expansive Poetics - 117 (No Future - (Punk Statements))
Student: Do you think that (punk) new wave (music) has God or has respect…AG: No, no, no, no. I think they've dispensed with the notion very wisely (though they may have dispensed with the heart also,...
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Expansive Poetics - 118 (Do It - Jeff Nightbyrd & Abbie Hoffman & Florence...
[Jeff Nightbyrd and Abbie Hoffman in Texas][to Jeff Nightbyrd] - What are you.. you're in town for an underground media convention?Jeff Nightbyrd: We're going to have an alternative tv network in...
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Expansive Poetics - 119 - (An American Place)
So, actually, what we're all talking about in terms of spiritual revolution is, in a way, continuing the tradition of person - democratic person, taking his own life as sacred, and being treated...
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Happy Birthday John Sinclair
From the 1995 retrospective of the pioneering '70's Detroit rock band, The Up - Killer Up! - this bonus cut - "Prayer For John Sinclair", an agit-prop chant by Allen GinsbergIt's 1971 and John Sinclair...
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Wallace Stevens
[Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)]Wallace Stevensborn on this day.From a question-and-answer session in 1996 at Texas State University (the full transcript is forthcoming) Q: You talk about (William Carlos)...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 191
[David Meltzer - Photograph by Richard Friedman]"Poet, musician, critic, novelist, editor, bookseller and educator" - Garrett Caples, ina recent City Lights post, accurately nails it - David Meltzer is...
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Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor - 1996 at Texas State
We feature today a reading by Allen, recorded, just a year before his death, on April 11, 1996, at the Evans Auditorium,Southwest Texas State University. A noticeably weakened Allen - "I have...
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Expansive Poetics - 120 (Marsden Hartley - 4)
For previous Marsden Hartley posts - seehere, here and hereAG: So there's also this little element of ecological perception, in what we know as an ecological environmental view in (Marsden) Hartley...
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