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Anselm Hollo on Fragments
[Sappho, fragments of poems, Graeco-Roman Egypt, 2nd Century AD, in the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford] [Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) teaching at...
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Anselm Hollo on Some Modern Poets Fragmentation
Anselm Hollo on Modern Fragmentation June 25 1986Continuing his remarks on fragmentation, poet-translator, Anselm Hollo looks at the concept in the work of seven of his contemporaries - Armand...
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Horace - 3
Picking up again on Allen's 1980 "Sapphics" class, going through his classoom anthology AG: So that was.. [Horace and Thomas Wyatt (bemoaning wasted opportunity)] Okay..also, there's a great poem by...
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Horace - 4
Student: (Did John Burnett [a Naropa student] do [read out loud] any Horace?)AG: Pardon me?Student: John Burnett?AG: No, he didn't do any Horace. (So), let's see, okay, yeah…Student (begins reading)...
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Horace - 5
[Allen continues with his review of his classroom anthology]AG: And the Sapphic Catullan form was picked up by, as we have in here [in this xerox anthology], Sir Walter) Raleigh and (Sir Philip)...
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William Blake's Cottage
Wonderful news! - the campaign by the William Blake Society to buy back William Blake's cottage in Felpham for the nation, to keep it from again falling into private hands, has been successfulTim...
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Sapphics continued - (Tennyson)
[Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809-1892)- Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron]Allen continues with his survey of Sapphics, going through further pages of his xerox-compiled...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 237
[Herschel Silverman (1926-2015) - Photo by Jeffrey Weinberg]Herschel Silverman, New Jersey "Beat" legend passed away last Saturday, aged 89, "The...
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Ginsberg-Koch-Waldman reading
From the incomporable Naropa University Archives, another vintage audio tape this weekend - (from June 25, 1979) a reading that took place in Denver, (Colorado), featuring Allen, alongside Kenneth...
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Ginsberg-Koch-Waldman part 2 - (Anne Waldman)
[Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, New Years Eve, 1979 - Photo by Louis Cartwright] [Anne Waldman]continuing...
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Swinburne, Pound and Bridges
[Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)]AG: Did I do that last time? [Swinburne's Hendecasyllabics]. If you listen to the way he handles it, it's a...
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Ginsberg on Late Auden
[W.H.Auden (1907-1973)] [Allen (at Naropa in 1980) continues his survey through a xeroxed classroom anthology of the Sapphic form, paying...
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Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg, courtesy the University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Allen Ginsberg Collection]TO ALLEN GINSBERGAllen, you good man, great...
View ArticleLawrence Ferlinghetti's Elegy to Allen Ginsberg
The Ginsberg-Ferlinghetti Letters, "I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career", published this past summer by City Lights, concludes with a reprint of Lawrence's moving elegy to his friend (from...
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Next Wednesday October 7 is the 60th Anniversary of the legendary Gallery Six reading, the first public performance of"Howl", the pioneering reading-event (Kerouac in the audience, carrying that jug...
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Kenneth Koch's 1979 Naropa Class
[Kenneth Koch (1925-2002]Kenneth Koch last week - Here's transcription of Kenneth's (Summer Academy of Practicing Writers) May 26, 1979...
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Basic Poetics - I - (Shakespeare)
[Lady Smocks(Cardamine pratensis) "And lady-smocks all silver white/ And cuckoo buds of yellow hue/ Do paint the meadows with delight."We return today to Allen at Naropa teaching, and a brand new...
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Basic Poetics - 2 (Kerouac, Reznikoff and Williams)
[Jack Kerouac, Charles Reznikoff and William Carlos Williams]Allen's 1980 Naropa Basic Poetics continuesStudent: Is that the only valid poetry then,...
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October 7 - Anniversary of the Six Gallery Reading
So today is the day - the 60th Anniversary of the famous "Six Gallery reading", the ground-breaking first public performance of "Howl" (tho' we shouldn't forget the importance of the other readers who...
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Six Gallery Reading Revisited (Rexroth-Snyder-Whalen-McClure)
[Art deco relief on the exterior of the Berkeley Community Theater, housing the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, venue of the recreation of the October 1955 recreation of the legendary Six Gallery...
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