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Kerouac Festival in Lowell this weekend. Here are all the details.Among the highlights…..David Amram, Pamela Twining, Andy Clausen and here's Andy Clausen reading "My Name's Neal Cassady What's Yours?"...
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"Still Howling"
Michael Anderson's composite Allen Ginsberg head summons all to the UK "Still Howling" event today at the "recently reopened, post-industrial building", The Wonder Inn, in Manchester, England.Organized...
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Ginsberg Reviews Dylan
Our good friend, Randy Roark has been going through his archives and been posting some selected "finds" over on that invaluable Facebook page, Our Allen. Here's one of them. Allen's typed-up and...
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Basic Poetics 3 - (David Cope - 1)
[David Cope - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]AG: Now, I want to skip on to a modern poet called David Cope, who's about thirty years old...
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Basic Poetics 4 (David Cope - 2)
AG: Another corollary to - "The natural object is always the adequate symbol" (Ezra Pound) . The corollary is by (Chogyam) Trungpa here - "Things are symbols of themselves"- they stand out in their...
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Basic Poetics 5 - (David Cope - 3)
Allen's reading and comments on David Cope's poetry continuesAG: "Ornament"- "only 4.95, / this beautiful ornament actually chirps like a bird" - [That's the whole poem, that's really great!]"Lovers...
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Basic Poetics 6 - (Actual Perception v Pure Bullshit)
Student: (I think) his style (David Cope's style) puts forth the position of being an observer rather than it being (creative). Instead of things coming out of the mind, the poet simply reflects what...
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This weekend in Big Sur, California at the Henry Miller Memorial Library, a weekend Allen Ginsberg celebration, beginning tonight with a choral reading of "Howl", a reading/performance by Anne Waldman...
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Kenneth Koch Q & A
[Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)]Two weeks ago, we featured transcript of "New York School" poet, Kenneth Koch speaking at Naropa (back in 1979)....
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Kenneth Koch Q and A continued
[Kenneth Koch - Portrait of Kenneth Koch by Alex Katz]Kenneth Koch Q & A from 1979 continuesKK: Maybe we should have some more questions. What would...
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Early English Poems (Piers Plowman and The Seafarer)
[Piers Plowman - ms from the British Library]AG: You know I'm beginning this whole course, which is a survey in English language poetry, in reverse,...
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Michael McClure's Birthday
The venerable Michael McClure turns eighty-three today. Birthday felicitations! For earlier birthday postings on Michael on the Allen Ginsberg Project see here and here.Also from our archives - see...
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David Cope - 4
[David Cope]Allen Ginsberg reading David Cope continues "Walking, driving,/ everything is business, nothing is still./ across the river...
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David Cope - 5
[David Cope - Three Early Volumes (with cover drawings by the author) - Poems (1974), Neon Eyes (1975) & Waking (1978) - all three published by Nada Press] Allen reading the (early) poetry of...
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Ginsberg in India
Jeet Thayall's radio documentary, Ginsberg in India, currently availablehere, provides the occasion for a brief review of that always-intriguing subject. American poet, Bob Holman (along with...
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The European Beat Studies Network's Annual Conference next week. This year - in Brussels. Among the explicitly Ginsberg-centric presentations: the whole first (Wednesday morning) opening panel -...
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Jack Kerouac's Funeral
[Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac's Funeral - Photograph by Jeff Albertson]October 24, 1969. It was a Friday. Forty-six years ago. Lowell, Mass, Jack Kerouac's funeral -...
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The Tradition of Reznikoff & Williams
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) - Photograph via University of Pennsylvania Archives][Allen continues with his 1981 Naropa class, drawing distinctions between the...
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A Detour (Exuberant Shakespearean Parody)
Student: I have two questions, one is this - that the first time at a poetry reading,(which you've referred to here), when you get into writing poetry, do you think that first type of flowery, primary...
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The Cuckoo Song (Early English Lyric - 1)
["Sumer is icumen in" (also called "The Cuckoo Song" or "Sumer Canon" or "thr Reading Rota") - Anonymous (speculated to be W. de Wycombe) - early English ms (copied c.1262) - British Library, London,...
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