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,An early draft of a segment of Allen's classic written-under-the-influence-of-LSD poem, Wales Visitation, goes up for auction next month in London at Bonhamsauction house, part of the Roy Davids...
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Allen Ginsberg - Allen's Haiku 2
Last week's postings of Allen's haiku (from "(21) Haiku composed in the backyard cottage at 1624 Milvia Street, Berkeley, 1955, while reading R.H.Blyth's 4 volumes, Haiku"met with sufficiently...
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Ferlinghetti's 94th Birthday
Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 94 today - Happy Birthday, Lawrence! - Chris Felver's full-length documentary, Ferlinghetti - A Rebirth of Wonder is currently going the rounds and is undoubtedly a...
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Written In My Dream...
Allen Ginsberg reads his poem, "Written In My Dream by William Carlos Williams" (included in the collection White Shroud - Poems 1980-1985) in September 1993 at the University of Vienna. Video text...
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March 26 - Gregory Corso's Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso - "A Modest Portrait" - Tangier, Morocco, Spring 1961 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg, Copyright Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gregory Corso - "Alchemical Poem"...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 54 (Edward Carpenter 1)
[Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) c. 1875]AG: (Now) we're on Edward Carpenter - where was I? - Edward Carpenter in relation to (Charles) Reznikoff again. (Let me read you) a Reznikoff poem by Edward...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 55 (Edward Carpenter 2)
[Edward Carpenter (1824-1929)]AG: A poem (by Edward Carpenter) that I've always liked is "From Turin to Paris"[in Towards Democracy] He's riding in the train from Italy to Paris and it's a long...
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[Harry Smith - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - Copyright The Estate of Allen Ginsberg - Caption reads: "Harry Smith at kitchen table 437 East 12th Street. Apt 22, he lived in tiny quiet room off to the...
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Narrated by Andrew O'Hagan, the 1998 tv documentary on Jack Kerouac - Kerouac: On The Road to Desolation features on-screen appearances by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady, Tom Clark, Ann...
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April Fools Day - "I Feel LIke Zeus Walking Through Red Square"
"Where'll this reach you? Got bounced out of Havana, landed in lovely Prague and stayed a month, now for the last couple of weeks I've been in Moscow and will go on to Warsaw and Budapest and London...
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Happy Birthday Anne Waldman
Happy Birthday, Anne Waldman - Allen's "spiritual wife", as she has occasionally been called, the co-creator of the Jack Kerouac School (of Disembodied Poetics) at Naropa University (not to mention,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 56 (Edward Carpenter 3)
[The Angel Michael Binding Satan ("He Cast him into the Bottomless Pit and shut him up") (c.1805) - William Blake (1757-1827), watercolor, ink and graphite on paper - collection of Fogg Art Museum,...
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Chogyam Trungpa's Parinirvana
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Parinirvana today. We choose this year to celebrate with a little photo portfolio. Random images from the life of Allen's guru and teacher.
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April 5 - Allen Ginsberg's Parinirvana - April 5, 1997 - the date when Allen's spirit left its bodily form. Big poetry celebration event tomorrow-night in Los Angeles (at Beyond Baroque) - Claiming...
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A Mix Tape/Allen Ginsberg Dancing
["Allen Ginsberg Dancing" via Contemporary Poetry blog]A "mix tape"? A little weekend-indulgence.- Since we're wondering if all these items were caught the first time they were posted, we're running...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 57 - (William Carlos Williams 1)
[[William Carlos Williams c.1948 - photograph by Constantin Joffe]AG: We've gone all the way to the other end again. Now (we'll) come back to-...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 58 (William Carlos Williams 2)
[William Carlos Williams ( 1883-1963)]"No ideas but in things" - Allen tries to explain William Carlos Williams' famous dictum to his students (Naropa Summer Session, 1976)AG: (Doctor Williams) is all...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 59 (William Carlos Williams 3)
AG: I would just like to read two short poems of (William Carlos) Williams that I think are crucial to this (discussion of "No ideas but in things"), and also intersect with Buddhist practice of...
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A couple of weeks back (yes, it's taken us that long to recover from all of the travel!) Allen was honored as one of the national heroes of the liberation struggle for the creation/establishment of the...
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Allen Ginsberg & Michael McClure - 1976 Naropa "Retrospective" Reading
[Allen Ginsberg & Michael McClure, circa 1965. Photographer unknown] We've been featuring of late transcription from Allen's 1976 summer-session teaching at Naropa Institute - Spontaneous Poetics....
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