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Christmas!
Scribbled Christmas comics from Allen Ginsberg from twenty-three years ago.Remember "Put on my tie in a taxi, short of breath, rushing to meditate" (from American Sentences)?It's ok, Allen. You can...
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December 28 - A 15-year-old Ginsberg declares….
December 28December 28, 1941 - A young precocious (fifteen-year-old) Allen Ginsberg writes from Paterson, New Jersey to the Editors of the New York Times - about unconscionable delays with regard to...
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Eileen Myles
[Eileen Myles, 1978 - Photograph ny Robert Mapplethorpe, 2015 - Photograph by Catherine Opie]Eileen Myles has had quite a year - publication these few months back of, not one but, two new books...
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Patti Smith's Birthday
[Patti Smith - Photograph by Jesse Ditmar]Patti Smith gets to celebrate her 69th birthday tonight with her band at San Francisco's Fillmore, ending...
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New Years Greetings From The Allen Ginsberg Project!
From Allen Ginsberg's brain and out into the world! - Happy New Year everyone!
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Jan I 2016 Happy New Year!
[Allen Ginsberg, December 31, 1958, at the Artist's Club's New Years Eve Party, New York City, December 31, 1958, - Photo © 2016 Estate of Fred W. McDarrah]"Allen Ginsberg Howling At A New Years Party"...
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Google Friends - Technical News - Updating Announcement
We love our Google Friends. That little box on the top right-hand side maybe (is) outdated, and, to many of you, irrelevant, but it has a special place in our hearts - primary evidence of commitment...
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Wait Till I'm Dead
2016 sees upcoming (next month!) the publication of Wait Till I'm Dead - UnCollected Poems, the new (posthumous) book of poems by Allen Ginsberg.Here are the blurbs:"Ginsberg has been one of the most...
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Basic Poetics Continues - (Correct Pronunciation)
[Madonna - detail from a Madonna and Child (c late.1480's) by Giovanni Bellini (1495-1516) in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ]The Allen Ginsberg Project has been, for some...
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Basic Poetics - (Meter and Emphasis)
AG: "All this the world well knows; yet none knows well" (Shakespeare) - Well they [the anthologists] have got two different ways. There's two different ways of pronouncing it. As they say (as you'll...
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John Wieners Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg and John Wieners, Miami, 1972]It's January 6 - It's John Wieners birthday - an annual celebration. What an interesting past year it's been....
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AG: …That's what (Bob) Dylan does with his..songs, he's constantly shifting the accents around, as you notice, from year to year, as he reinterprets how to pronounce “Just Like A Woman” or "Like A...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 250
The "Friday Weekly Round-Up", a miscellany of Ginsberg and Beat-related news, a regular feature here on the Allen Ginsberg Project (absent these past few weeks) reaches its two-hundred-and-fiftieth...
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Joan Baez's Birthday
[Joan Baez, 1986 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Joan Baez turns 75 today - Joan Baez, peace activist, golden-throated singer, America's conscience Joan on Allen (in...
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Herbert Huncke 101 (Huncke's Window)
["Herbert Huncke, New York, 1984, my kitchen, at the table, wry conversation - his new manuscript, Guilty of Everything, still to be edited" - later amended to "Herbert Huncke - aged 69 - retired fron...
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I Syng of A Mayden - Analysis - 1
Wecontinuethis week with our transcription of Allen's January 7, 1980 "Basic Poetics" class, which starts off with some detailed (one might even argue, obsessive) attention to prosody (to meter and...
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I Syng of A Mayden - Analysis - 2
[Madonna and Child (c. 1435-37) - Domenico Veneziano,from the Berenson Collection, Florence]AG: I don't know if it's in, if it's mentioned in this book [in the Norton anthology] - yes, on...
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Alliterative Verse - Beowulf
AG: Okay. I wanted to get on now to more alliterative, the alliterative verse that (W.H.) Auden was doing, (and if I can, a little bit of.. the Kalevala (which is also an alliterative epic) but I don't...
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McClure's Chaucer
The occasion (unlikely occasion) - The Band's Thanksgiving, 1977, "Farewell Convert" at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom (subsequently immortalized in Martin Scorcese's 1978 film, The Last Waltz....
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 251
[Allen takes the back-seat - Two photographs - Ryan Weideman (Self-Portrait with Passenger,1990) and Brian Graham (Allen Ginsberg and Brian Graham, Cape Breton, 1992)][ - and a third -Steve Silberman,...
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