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John Skelton's "To Mistress Margaret Hussey"
AG: So how does this sound in Skelton - ["To Mistress Margaret Hussey"] - "Merry Margaret/ As Midsummer flower/Gentle as a falcon.." (well, that's (page) seventy-six, back to (page) seventy-six)....
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John Skelton & Skeltonics continues
["With solace and gladness/Much mirth and no madness"]AG: Well, (John) Skelton is really interesting. (W.H.) Auden got on to Skelton also. In much of Auden's...
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[Cadets read "Howl", February 19, 1991, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia. Photo Copyright © Gordon Ball, 2006.]Gordon Ball's iconic photograph of cadets at Virginia Military...
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Allen Ginsberg 1969 University of Arizona Reading
Allen Ginsberg Reading At the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, Spring Reading Series, April 30, 1969A real archival treasure this weekend. From the University of Arizona Poetry Center's...
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More Skelton - ("Phyllp Sparowe")
AG: So - has anybody got any..? What other.. Some more..some more (John) SkeltonAnne Waldman: There's a wonderful.. Do you know "Phyllp Sparowe"?AG: What part of it is good?Anne Waldman:...
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More Skelton - (Mistress Isabell & Mistress Gertrude)
[John Skelton ( c.1460-1529)]AG: There's another one here [of John Skelton's] that we can have a look-see, there's a nice easy one - "To Mistress Isabell Pennell" - It's not...
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Wyatt 1 - ("Whoso List to Hunt.." )
[Anne Boleyn- by Unknown artist - oil on panel, late 16th century (circa 1533-1536), 21 3/8 in. x 16 3/8 in. (543 mm x 416 mm), from the Collection in the National Portrait Gallery, London]AG: .. Maybe...
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The Bob Dylan Archive at The University of Oklahoma
"I like Allen Ginsberg and not Bob Dylan" wrote a reader a while back on our Facebook page, and another wrote accurately and swiftly back, "They're joined at the hip."Allen loved.. no, Allen revered...
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Wyatt - 2 - ("They flee from me..")
[Sir Thomas Wyatt - "They flee from me.." ("Theye fle from me..)" - (from the Devonshire Manuscript (circa 1530-1540)]AG: And there was another great, strange one, whose rhythm is very odd, "They flee...
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"For School KIds In New Jersey" (& Other Wait Till I'm Dead typescripts)
["Birds are twittering on the Church Steeple" - Mary Help of Christians Roman Catholic Church on New York's Lower East Side (East 12th Street, across from his bedroom window) photographed by Allen...
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[Allen Ginsberg in China, 1984 - Allen Ginsberg caption: "Downtown Baoding, Hebei University English Language school student guide that afternoon, November 1984, he was a friend of the young...
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Montreal, 1969, Kaddish
Last week we featured a recording of (some selections from) "Kaddish"from a recording made back in 1969 at the University of Arizona. The recording featured today is from that same year, 1969, and was...
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Bill Morgan's City Lights Pocket Guides (The Beats Abroad)
Bill Morgan's indispensible series of Beat pocket-guides (see our note here on the previous Beat Atlas) have always been a unique and invaluable resource.City Lights has just this past month gifted us...
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Montreal reading continues - (from The Fall of America)
Allen Ginsberg’s October 31 (Halloween) 1969 Montreal reading(begun here) continues with a reading of his poem"Car Crash!" - [dated 1:30 AM, Jan 1. 1969, subsequently...
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Montreal reading continues - (Blake and Kerouac)
Allen's 1969 Montreal reading continues (see here and here) with a (harmonium-accompanied) rendition of (William Blake's) "Piping Down the valleys wild..." - (Introduction to "The Songs of Innocence")...
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Montreal reading continues - (Fall of America & Mantra)
The 1969 Montreal reading continues today (with more poems from The Fall of America and, as conclusion, the chanting of a Buddhist mantra)Allen continues his reading, first, with a poem entitled...
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Montreal Reading continues - (Sunflower Sutra & Mantra)
Following Allen's Montreal 1969 reading:Moderator: Allen says he wouldn’t mind answering any questions….AG: Or a conversation or something..Moderator: ..rapping with anyone who wants to pass on...
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Ginsberg Yearbook on "Antiques Road Show"
A quaint item - and a very early item, Allen Ginsberg's 1943 high-school yearbook. It appears on a segment of the popular PBS tv showAntiques Road Showlater this month.Its owner, his classmate, the...
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Allen parle en français. We've previously spotlighted Allen on French radio (from 1996, on Alain Veinstein's program, and in the company of Jean-Jacques Lebel, on the occasion of the publication of the...
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Jack Kerouac's Birthday - A Jack Kerouac Weekend
Celebrating Jack Kerouac's birthday today on the Allen Ginsberg Project. See here for some of our earlier Kerouac birthday celebrations and Kerouac celebrations - and here - and here- and here - and...
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