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Expansive Poetics - 121 (Vachel Lindsay)
[Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)]AG: Another American - on the next page, Vachel Lindsay. Another American who is also into American rhythms and American speech but more in a literary, formalistic way (but...
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Expansive Poetics - 122 (Greek Meters and An Angry Question)
AG: Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" - it used to be in all the high-school anthologies in the (19)30's and (19)40's, the Louis Untermeyer anthology, and it might actually have been pushed out by Black...
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John Lennon's Birthday
[John Lennon (1940-1980)]So today would've been John Lennon's 74th birthday.Allen, writing in 1984, in Rolling Stone"I remember the precise moment, the precise night I went to this place in New...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 192 (Ashoka Mukpo)
Prayers for Ashoka Mukpo (Prayers for all sentient beings)September 18 Ashoka Mukpo Facebook posting: "man oh man i have seen some bad things in the last two weeks of my life. how unpredictable and...
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Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor at Texas State 1996 - Q & A -1
Following on from our recent posting of Allen's 1996 Texas State University reading, here's a transcription of the Q & A that followedGood morning. We have an hour I would ask you to speak clearly,...
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Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor at Texas State 1996 - Q & A - 2
Q: So You read "Sphincter" last night.. AG: YeahQ: And that recalled.. I read a (W.B.) Yeats poem about "love pitches his mansion in a place next to excrement"..A: Yes, "Crazy Jane and the Bishop" Does...
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Expansive Poetics - 123 (Wallace Stevens)
[Wallace Stevens ( 1879-1955)]AG: Wallace Stevens is a great poet, but metrically not that interesting, I don't think, philosophically interesting, so as a tiny little sample of Wallace Stevens, I just...
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Lenny Bruce's Birthday
[Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)]It's Lenny Bruce's birthday today. Sending a shout-out to Lenny Bruce. Here's late footage of him in performancecontinuing here, here, here, here, here, and herethis, from the...
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Expansive Poetics - 124 (William Carlos Williams - To Elsie, Saxifrage & The...
[William Carlos Williams ( 1883-1963)]William Carlos Williamswe’ve done a lot, on and off, in and out – everybody knows Williams - does everybody know some Williams? Is there anybody here who has...
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E.E.Cummings (1894-1962)
[E.E.Cummings (1894-1962)The poet E.E. Cummings was born on this day, October 14December 20, 1956 - Allen Ginsberg, writing from Paterson, New Jersey"Dear Mr Cummings,Came to your door. You were out....
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Expansive Poetics - 125 (Jaime de Angulo)
[Jaime d'Angulo (1887-1950)][AG: Onward!.. Skipping over (Ezra) Pound (except one little thing. because we don’t have much (time)… I want to skip over Pound - we’ll come back to Pound)…]AG:Jaime...
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Expansive Poetics - 126 (Sacco and Vanzetti)
AG: Bartelomeo Vanzetti – has anybody read..ever heard (of) him? - Bartelomo Vanzetti? Sacco and Vanzetti? Has anybody notheard of Sacco and Vanzetti? Did you hear of Sacco and Vanzetti? – ok, they...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 193
[Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Marc Geller]A wonderful Ginsberg issue (for all of you who read Portuguese - and even those of you don't, (including several pictures of Allen that we'd, frankly,...
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Neal Cassady - The Joan Anderson Letter
[Neal Cassady age 29 young and handsome 1955 San Francisco North Beach used car lot. Bay area Johnny Appleseed of Pot from early 50's, he gambled madly at racetrack, worked as conductor Southern...
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Gerd Stern - Here's an interview with the truly extraordinary Gerd Stern - Gerd Stern, who, allegedly lost that legendary Neal Cassady manuscript, Gerd Stern, artist, poet and multi-media visionary, at...
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Gerd Stern - 2
[Gerd Stern]Gerd Stern's vivid memories - from From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist 1948-1978. The complete text is available on-line from the University of California "So I came and...
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Happy Birthday Philip Whalen and Michael McClure
What would have been Philip Whalen's ninety-first birthday (grand old sensei, venerable master) - celebrated today.We await with eagerness David Schneider's long-in-the-making definitive biography...
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Gerd Stern 3 (Gerd Stern Remembers Harry Smith)
[Harry Smith with his mural, "Jimbo's Bop City", San Francisco, 1950 - Photograph by Hy Hirsch]Gerd Stern: "It was a great success. The auditorium was always full; everybody paid except Harry Smith....
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Harold Norse
[ Harold Norse (1916-2009) - "Poet Harold Norse in his apartment kitchen, 157 Albion Street, San Francisco, May 28, 1988 - For HN with old affection from Allen Ginsberg- AH" - Photograph by Allen...
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Philip Lamantia's Birthday
Philip Lamantia's birthday today. He would have been 87. We take the occasion to remind you once again of Garrett Caples and Andrew Joron's exemplary edition of the Collected Poems Here's the two of...
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