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Spontaneous Poetics - 60 William Carlos Williams 4)
Allen Ginsberg, June 28 1976 class on Spontaneous Poetics at Naropa Institute, transcription of Allen's 1976 summer sessions continues. More on William Carlos Williams. Some of this material Allen has...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 61 (William Carlos Williams 5 - To Elsie)
AG: There's a very beautiful poem to America (by William Carlos Williams) called "To Elsie". Considering how mixed-up everyone else was in their language, and how mixed-up they were in their desires,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 62 (William Carlos Williams 6)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) - Photograph via University of Pennsylvania Archives]AG: Please raise your hands.. Okay, so that's good.. So I can read on a little more of (William Carlos)...
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Remembering Kathy Acker
[Kathy Acker (1947-1997) - photograph by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright - Allen Ginsberg Estate - caption - "Kathy Acker in Green Room, Detroit Institute of the Arts, one night February 1985 we read...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 122
[cover for On Tibetan Buddhism, Mantras and Drugs - Interviews with Allen Ginsberg by Paul Lobo Portuges, published by Word Palace Press, San Luis Obispo, California, 2013] [Cover illustration for...
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Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Chogyam Trungpa & William Burroughs Reading,...
Last weekend's 1976 Ginsberg-McClure reading was warmly received. Here's another one, again recorded at Naropa in 1976, (a couple of months later), and featuring, in addition to Allen, Anne Waldman,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 63 (William Carlos Williams 7)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)]Ginsberg on Williams (from June 1976 at Naropa) continues:AG: So it's a question of the whole problem of the structure of the universe then, (that it) depends on...
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1,000th Posting
If we've got the maths right... 1,000 postings! What an incredible resource The Allen Ginsberg Project is! - On this momentous occasion, we'd ask you all a favor - Can you use our Comments section...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 64 (William Carlos Williams 8)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)]Ginsberg on Williams continues:AG: There's lots of short poems (of Williams) that might be looked at. What does he do (for example) when he gets into a violent...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 65 (William Carlos Williams 9)
Student: Allen, I've heard a lot about that poem of Williams about a cat walking on a fence. Do you think you could find that one?AG: A poem about a cat walking on a fence?Student: Yeah.AG: I could...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 66 (William Carlos Williams 10 - Williams' Prosody)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)] AG: I've been thinking of what are the different considerations of mindful open-verse forms. And I made a very brief list (composed of elements we've already...
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Friday's Weekly Round Up - 123
[Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco 1994 - photograph by Chris Felver (from the Berg Collection at theNew York Public Library] Belatedly noting the passing (he died April 11, aged 86) of the noted...
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Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
The recent publication of Simon Warner's quaintly-titled, monumental (500+ pages) tome, Text and Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll, had us thinking again about lineage and connections and those issues - "Was...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 67 (William Carlos Williams 11)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) - Photograph by Jonathan Williams - from "A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude] (Continuing with Allen Ginsberg's class on "Spontaneous Poetics" at...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 68 (William Carlos Williams 12)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)][Allen Ginsberg on Spontaneous Poetics at Naropa Institute continues - from June 30 1976]AG: [recalling the previous class] We had gone through syllables, accents,...
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May Day
[May Day - street poster design by Eric Drooker]May Day. May Day Greetings from The Allen Ginsberg Project! With Allen this day (today) is always a special day. Remembering his pivotal (all-too-brief)...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 69 (Burroughs, Voznesensky & Kaddish)
Student: Does the thought come to the mind scored? AG: Pardon me?Student: Does the thought come to the mind [as per lateWilliams] broken (say) into three lines..?AG: Hmm - okay, let's take that up in a...
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Friday Weekly Round Up - 124
[Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky - "A.G & P.O. 5 Turner Terrace, Potrero Hill Housing Project, Peter's kitchen, hot summer day 1956." (Allen Ginsberg Caption) - Photograph c. Allen Ginsberg...
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More Vintage Audio - Summer 1976 - Naropa Benefit Reading
Another Summer 1976 Naropa poetry reading (following on from here and here). This one took place at the very end of Summer (September 13, to be precise) and was a benefit for the then...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 70 (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
[Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)]Allen Ginsberg's June 30 1976 Spontaneous Poetics class continuesStudent: Allen..AG: Yes?Student: Would you say (something about) ... more older forms.. ?[the tape...
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