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The Academy of American Poets, on the occasion of his 89th birthday, gave Allen a tribute (the key component of which is this wonderful video of him and Steven Taylor on the rooftop of his East 12th...
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Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 1
Back in the 1980's (and, indeed, into the 1990's - and beyond?) Kim's Videos (on St Marks Place, later on Avenue A) was an essential part of Allen's New York East Village neighborhood. As Allen's...
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Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 2
Continuing fromyesterday's listing of "Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten films". We begin today with the very earliest that he cites, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 Броненосец«Потемкин» Bronenosets Potyomkin...
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Naropa Summer Writing Program, 2015
It's that time of the year again. This week sees the beginning of the 2015 Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program"The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation...
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Mexico City Blues - 4
[Jack Kerouac in a Merchant Marine cap - c.1944] [Dexter Gordon, resting. New York City, 1949 - Photograph by Herman Leonard]...
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Mexico City Blues - 5
Allen on Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues continues[49thChorus]“They got nothing on me/at the university/Them clever poets/of immensity..” – That’s very funny, actually – “Them clever poets /of...
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Mexico CIty Blues - 6
[Henry Luce] ["…And nobody cares how you hang/ Your spaghetti wash…"][Louis...
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[Rosebud Feliu-Pettet (1946-2015) and Allen Ginsberg]Rose "Rosebud" Feliu-Pettet, a long-time friend of Allen's, author ofthe definitive account of Allen's passing, passed...
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Mexico City Blues Readings
In 1996, Shambhala Publications (for their Shambhala Lion Editions) produced a two-cassette audiobook (that ran for just under three hours) - Allen reading the entire Mexico City Blues.We've featured...
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Mexico City Blues - 7
[Gore Vidal] ["Dem eggs & dem dem/Dere bacons"]["..be boppy/be buddy/I didn’t...
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Jack Kerouac and Kenneth Patchen
Student: Would you put down Kenneth Patchen’s The Journal of Albion Midnightin that kind of [internalized subjective exploration] category?AG: I haven’t read it in so long, but I think that The...
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Haiku and Desolation Angels
[Jack Kerouac - cover of Book of Haikus (posthumously published in 2003]..tape begins in media res with Allen writing on the blackboard - "building on the...
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Beatnik Shindig this upcoming weekend. We spotlighted it last week but are reminding you again. The place to be right now - Fort Mason Center, San FranciscoHot hot news - Allen Ginsberg 's...
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Gay Pride Weekend
Celebrating sexuality, coming out, and of course Marriage Equality on an extraordinarily euphoric Gay Pride Weekend!"Some situations are exuberant, like "Howl" or "Plutonian Ode". Some situations are...
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William Blake's Auguries of Innocence - 1
[William Blake (1757-1827)]AG: So, we were on the… I had read, “In order to trample on the Great Void/ The iron cow must sweat”, and also, "Meeting, the two old friends laugh aloud/ In the grove the...
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William Blake - Auguries of Innocence 2 (Bells Theorem)
[“Each outcry of the hunted hare/A fibre from the Brain does tear" (William Blake) ]Student: (...In the electronic universe, every living thing is connected to every other, everything is...
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William Blake's - Auguries of Innocence - 3
[William Blake's script - from "Augurires of Innocence" in the Pickering manuscript]Continuing with Allen's reading from, and annotation of, William Blake's "Auguries of...
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William Blake - Auguries of Innocence - 4
[William Blake's script - from "Augurires of Innocence" in the Pickering manuscript]Continuing with Allen's reading from, and annotation of, William Blake's "Auguries of...
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Sometime since we noted great Ginsberg parodies - Remember Yelp? and Tweet? - even "Peter LaBarbera" (!) - Filip Noterdaemehas taken it one stage further, not just revisiting 'Howl" (the opening poem)...
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