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Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman 8)
Ginsberg on Whitman continuesI'm extending this discussion so far because, when considered this way, it does bring up the problem, then, (of), has he [Whitman] given up his self, or is he actually...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Birthday
"There's always hope in love. Love and hate are viruses. Love can make a civilization bloom and hate can kill a civilization" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti is ninety-six years old today. Many happy returns...
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Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman 9)
Student: Allen, what does he (Whitman) mean by "soul"?AG: I wonder - What does he mean by “soul”. Well I think we have to read on more because he’s going to define it. And he changes the meaning,...
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Gregory Corso's Birthday
[photo: Chris Felver ca. 1980] [photo: Hank O'Neal, 1985][photo: Hank O'Neal, 1985] [photo: Francis Miller, 1959] [photo: Allen Ginsberg, 1961][photo: Allen Ginsberg, 1961][photo: Pamela...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 214
Allen Ginsberg's family - Hannah (Honey) Litzky, aunt; Leo Litzky, uncle; Abe Ginsberg, uncle; Anna Ginsberg, aunt; Louis Ginsberg, father; Eugene Brooks, brother; Allen Ginsberg, poet; Anne Brooks,...
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Remembering Jack Kerouac - 1
Remembering Jack – 1 Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso and Edith Parker KerouacWe've been featuring recently (hereand here) some readings from the 1982 Naropa On The Road Conference...
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Remembering Jack Kerouac - 2
The 1982 memories of (Jack) Kerouac session at Naropa continues(For the first part of this panel see yesterday)Audio of these recollections can be found hereThe transcript picks up at approximately...
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Jack Kerouac - The Northport Tapes
Audio of Jack Kerouac is priceless and so we're very happy to feature this weekend (courtesy of Counter Culture Chronicles and the remarkable Ubu Web) - "The Northport Tapes". As Ubu Web notes:"Counter...
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Meditation and Poetics - 58 - (Whitman 1)
AG: So to Walt Whitman - “When I Read The Book” – so this is some statement of his opening.. (I’m reading from Whitman now, from the Modern Library (edition) of Leaves of Grass, page (twenty) eight –...
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Meditation and Poetics - 59 (Whitman 2)
[Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850)]AG: So (to) get right into “Song of Myself”, and I’ll do as much of it as we can (in an hour) So he [Walt Whitman] begins - as we had in...
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Meditation and Poetics - 60 (Whitman - 3)
[Walt Whitman ( 1819-1892)]AG: So how many here have been listening to (Chogyam) Trungpa’s lectures? How many go? He’s just entered into the Mahayana discourse (and his last lecture was on the...
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Jack Kerouac's Birthday
[Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) - Jack Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1958 - Photograph via L.A.Times]March 12 - It's Jack Kerouac's birthday today. 93 years since his birth in Lowell,...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 212
Recently surfaced, Allen Ginsberg and the Clash - Ghetto Defendant - an extended version which originally appeared on the bootleg "Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg"[Allen Ginsberg with Mick Jones, and...
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Carl Solomon's Birthday
Carl Solomon - dedicatee of"Howl" - We recently posted a poetry-prose reading by him (from 1982) and see also on the Allen Ginsberg Project our birthday salutes to Carl here and here. Born in the...
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Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman - 10)
[Allen's August 1978 Naropa lecture on Whitman' s " Song of Myself" continues here]Then he (Walt Whitman, in “Song of Myself”) goes into a section, in (section) seven, which is more and more close to...
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Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman - 11)
[Bathers - (c.1894) - Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) - oil on canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm - Musée d'Orsay, Paris], [Ginsberg on Whitman continues]AG: Go on to Section 16 (of Leaves of Grass). Well,...
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Anne Waldman's Birthday
Anne Waldman's (70th) birthday today. We direct you to some of our earlier Anne Waldman birthday posts - here, here, here and hereHere is Anne at the Academy of American Poets in 2013, discoursing on...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 215
Next week (next Tuesday) is Hal Willner's LA "Howl" extravaganza.The following day is Earth Day - courtesy WNYC's Spinning on Air, in New York, at The Greene Space there'll be an Earth Day Special...
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Remembering Jack Kerouac - 3
[Jack Kerouac 1922-1969]continuing from last weekend's two postsGregory Corso: Al Aronowitz. Is Al Aronowitz here...Al Aronowitz is not here....
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Sunday April 5 - Allen Ginsberg Parinirvana
[Allen Ginsberg performs "Father Death Blues"]It's Allen Ginsberg'sparinirvanatoday, the (eighteenth) anniversary of his passing.Here's Herbert Huncke, "godfather of The Beats", on "the invisible...
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