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[Kate Moss in her Bella Freud "Ginsberg Is God" fashion sweater]Bella Freud is painter Lucian Freud's daughter and an eminent fashion designer. A while back we featured the sweater!but, good lord, how...
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Gelek Rimpoche's 75th Birthday
Tomorrow - Gelek Rimpoche's 75th Birthday - This evening in New York City there will be a special gala event (with musical guests Paul Simon and Philip Glass, and more) hosted by the painter Francesco...
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Dylan Thomas Centenary
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)October 27 - The Dylan Thomas' Centenary - One hundred years ago on this day...Allen Ginsberg-Dylan Thomas. Here's Allen's account, "Late April 1952" from Journals, Early...
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon(1909-1992) on Allen Ginsberg: "I met Allen Ginsberg the other night. When I'd seen him in Tangier, he was with his boyfriend and said to me: "Will you paint a portrait of us on the job?"....
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Francesco Clemente
[Allen Ginsberg (Portrait) 1982-1987 - Francesco Clemente - Water-color on paper 14 x 20 ins]Six beautiful images from Francesco Clemente's web-site today (all from the 'Eighties). One water-color...
View ArticleEzra Pound's Birthday
Two clips from the Pound Voices and Visions film today, since it's that time again - Ezra Pound's birthday. Check out previous Pound Birthday postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project here, here and here....
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["William Burroughs with a Jack-O-Lantern he carved with a hatchet, October 31,1996" - Photograph by Philip Heying - c. Philip Heying via Burroughs 100]October 31, it has to be said, always makes us...
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1980 Naropa - Ginsberg-Clausen-Whalen reading
[Allen Ginsberg, Andy Clausen, Philip Whalen]July 23 1980 at the Naropa Institute - Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen and Andy Clausen (Anne Waldman introduces Allen and Philip, Allen introduces Andy...
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Clemente Ginsberg Orlovsky on India - 1
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky and Francesco Clemente - From 2011's Clemente Made In India (the complete transcribed conversation is available there, but first appears in print, earlier, in 1992,...
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Clemente, Ginsberg, Orlovsky on India - 2
[Francesco Clemente works on his portrait of Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg][Allen Ginsberg - Indian Journals]Continuing from yesterday- Clemente and...
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Naropa at 40
[top - Chogyam Trungpa - middle - Jerome Rothenberg, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa, Diane di Prima, unidentified student, William Burroughs - bottom Allen Ginsberg and...
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Carl Rakosi
[Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)] - Photograph by Gloria Graham]Two introductions by Allen Ginsberg and one by Anselm Hollo to readings by Carl Rakosi (who shares the same birthday as the compiler of these...
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[Allen Ginsberg with (portrait of) Walt Whitman - Photograph by Misao Mizuno]Mash-Ups - As we noted in an earlier post,"The ubiquitous Tom Waits-Allen Ginsberg mash-up, "Closing Time"/"America" has got...
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Happy Birthday Alice Notley
[Alice Notley - Photograph by Alan Bernheimer]Happy Birthday, Alice Notley, dear Alice, 69 years old today!["When I was in my early twenties, I modeled forGeorge Segal, and he made a life-sized statue...
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Meditation and Poetics - 1 (Preliminaries)
Starting today, transcription from another of Allen's Naropa Institute classes - Meditation and Poetics. These lectures took place in Boulder in the Summer of 1978. This first, on July 17.AG: Okay, The...
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Meditation and Poetics - 2 (Intro)
AG: So everybody knows a little poetry but how many here don't meditate? Or haven't had any formal meditation practice? Okay. So the thing is that you signed up for a course in meditation and...
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Meditation and Poetics - 3
[Sitting Meditation (Samatha) at Naropa]AG: Yes?Student: What's a discourse?AG: A discourse is talking. Talking. Improvised conversation on a theme, improvised discussion on a theme.Student:...
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Meditation and Poetics - 4
Allen's practical class on Meditation and Poetics continuesAG: Does anybody have any technical question?Student: Can you be heard? AG: Pardon me?Student: Could they hear you in the back?AG: Could...
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Diane Di Prima's new book fromCity Lights - The Poetry Deal is out. We've reported before about her recent troubling health difficulties. The emergencies still remain but still the urgency of the work,...
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Marianne Moore on Allen Ginsberg
[Marianne Moore (1887-1972)]Marianne Moore (who's birthday it is today) writing to the young Allen Ginsberg. Allen, on the advice of William Carlos Williams, had forwarded an early manuscript of...
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