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1986 Faculty Poetry Collaborative Reading – 1 Ginsberg-Taylor-Clausen-Waldman
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1986 Faculty Poetry Collaborative Reading – 2 (Ed Sanders and Steven Taylor)
[Ed Sanders]continuing from yesterday - The 1986 Faculty Poetry Collaborative ReadingAnne Waldman : Ed Sanders– graduated...
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"A Little Side-Trip in Auden"
AG: So what comes on then with (W.H.) Auden (Auden's a pretty sophisticated man) is a profuse version [of alliterative verse]. It's not an early muscular version of alliterative writing but, every once...
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W.H.Auden - Age of Anxiety - 1
[Allen Ginsberg on W.H.Auden's Age of Anxiety Continues]AG: Then, there is a very magnificent long speech, I think, by Rosetta - oh no, a real funny one - oh yeah, another form he did was alliterative...
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Martin Luther King
[Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968]Allen Ginsberg on Martin Luther King: “I met him a couple times. Once with LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and...
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W.H.Auden - Age of Anxiety - 2
Continuing with selected readings from W.H.Auden's The Age of AnxietyAG: So then they all go home except for the lovers, who wind up in bed. The lady.. takes them... (Rosetta went with them to the...
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Allen Ginsberg in 1987 on The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's
John Sheppard's 1987 documentary"It Was 20 Years Ago Today", an examination of the classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, (and of 1967, the year of its debut), features, at one...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 252
Elsa Dorfman ("Ellie"), Allen's dear friend, "friend of the poets", doyenne of the oversized Polaroid, a "fixture in Cambridge (Massachusetts) for decades", celebrated here on The Allen Ginsberg...
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Vintage Naropa Audio - John Ashbery and Dick Gallup, 1976
[Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Dick Gallup, Anne Waldman and Michael McClure at Naropa Institute, 1976] Dick Gallup and John Ashbery, June 23, 1976Another from the Naropa Archivesthis weekend–...
View Article"..A Mayden.." - Accentuated
I syng of a maydenþat is makeles,kyng of alle kyngesto here sone che ches.I sing of a maidenThat is matchless,King of all kingsFor her son she chose.He came also stylleþer his moder wasas dew in...
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Ed Sanders' Archive
[Ed Sanders and Janis Joplin, Fillmore East, New York City, Opening Night, 1968 - Photograph by Elliott Landy] Our dear friends at Granary Books have currently on offer an extraordinary trove - the...
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Louis Auchincloss
[Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) at Dostoyevsky's writing desk, Dostoyevsky House Museum, Leningrad, November 30, 1985 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]Five years gone by...
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Zukofsky's Music
[Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)][Celia Zukofsky]AG: I took part in a.. Louis Zukofsky was an Objectivist Imagistfriend, poet, of (Ezra) Pound, (William Carlos) Williams (Pound and Williams), a great man...
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"..A Mayden"& Blake Accentuated
More detailed technical analysis. Again (as with an earlier posting this week), it is strongly suggested that the reader follow along with the original audio (which is available here(beginnning at...
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Amnesiac Thirst For Fame
Amnesiac Thirst For Fame An “autograph hound” armedwith a golden platter and a gunkneeled before John and killed the Beatles. A stringy-haired artisttiptoed thru St. Peter’sand unsculpted...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 253
Wait Till I'm Dead, the eagerly-awaited new Ginsberg book, is officially out next Tuesday (the UK edition, cover seen here, has a pub date of the 25th of February) Here's Rachel Zucker from the...
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Philip Glass - 1
We celebrate tomorrow the actual birthday of Philip Glass, but here on the Ginsberg Project, a Philip Glass weekendHere's how Philip brought in the New Year in New York earlier this month& from...
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Philip Glass - 2
More Glass - Philip Glass's birthday today - continuing from yesterday, a Philip Glass weekend.PG: "I had met Allen Ginsberg many times after I returned from Paris and India in 1967. He, of course was...
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A Ginsberg Class at Naropa - Parodies - Various Student Assignment Poems
Today’s installment from the on-going transcribed Allen-Ginsberg-at-Naropa lectures, shows Allen working directly with the students (he had assigned them to make their own versions of one of the early...
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A Ginsberg Parody - "I know of a baby.."
[Detail from "Virgin and Child Adored by the Infant St John" - Lucas Cranach, the Elder - oil on panel, 36.5 × 27.5 cm (14.4 × 10.8 in) circa 1512-14]Following yesterday's student presentations, Allen...
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