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Anne Waldman's Birthday
Anne Waldman's birthday today. It's become a regular feature here on the Allen Ginsberg Project. See earlier Anne Waldman birthday celebrations here, here, here, here, and hereHer reading in 1977...
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Allen Ginsberg Montreal 1969 Q & A - 11 (Canada)
Q: You sense any change in the atmosphere when you come out of the (United) States and come to any other country, like Canada)?AG: There’s a little change in downtown atmosphere, say here (Montreal) ,...
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April 5 - Anniversary of Allen's death - Allen's Parinirvana
[Allen holding an abbreviated version of his poem "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Gone gone gone / gone with yesterday / gone gone gone /all gone old & gray / Gone, gone, gone /Gone to graveyard play / with...
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Allen Ginsberg (Montreal, 1969 (Q & A - 12) (Sex and Marriage and Kali Yuga)
[The Sexual Freedom League, Stanford, 1969 - Photograph by Larry Keenan]Q: If somebody gave you the power to create a new sexual cult, what kind of cult would you create?AG: I’d...
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Allen Ginsberg Montreal, 1969 (Q & A - 13) - (The (Alternative) American...
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)]Q: (Describe for me some of your important influences?) AG: William Carlos Williams as a poet - partly...
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[The Last Gathering of Beats Poets and Artists, City Lights Books, North Beach, San Francisco, 1965" - Photographed by Larry Keenan- (front row: Robert LaVigne, Shigeyoshi Murao, Larry Fagin,...
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Allen Ginsberg and Jerry Granelli, Naropa 1981
[Allen Ginsberg] [Jerry Granelli]Allen Ginsbergand jazz drummer Jerry Granelli team up this weekend on a vintage recording made in 1981...
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Allen Ginsberg, Montreal, 1969 (Q & A - 14) (Gary Snyder)
Q: [in 1969] - How close is your relationship with Gary Snyder.. (from a poetical point of view …. I don't mean sexual…)AG: We’re old friends. We never made it! I was always wanting to make it...
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Montreal, 1969 Q & A - 15 (Physical Alienation)
Q: If you could make a diagram…AG: Wait, I didn’t finishthat bit about Whitman. What I was just trying to say was there are passages in Whitman, in which he is able compleely to reveal his tenderness,...
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Montreal 1969 Q & A - 16 (Buddhism and Breathing - The Red Tin Begging Cup)
Q: The dedication on the "Laughing Gas" poem – to Gary Snyder,“The red tin begging cup you gave me,/I lost it but its contents remain undisturbed” - Does that refer here to any specific transmissions...
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Montreal, 1969 Q & A - 17 - Krishna and The Void - Metaphysical Speculation
Q: Do you think that the void could be incomplete?AG: I don’t know if the void could be, the philosophy might be incomplete, but I don’t think that the void is incomplete.Q; But if you say that the...
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[Allen Ginsberg recording session at the Record Plant Studio, New York, November 13, 1971 - from left to right - David Amram,Bob Dylan, Happy Traum, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky (kneeling), Denise...
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Naropa Summer School/Gary Snyder
The Naropa Summer Writing Program. The Writing Program for the four-week Summer 2016 sessions at Naropa (starting June 12) has already been announced. Among the highlights (alongside program...
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Naropa Symposium continues
The transcription of the 1983 Naropa symposium, featuring Gary Snyder, continuesGary Snyder: [following Joe Richey's recitation of his poem] That's your own poem?Joe Richey: That's my poem [rounding...
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Montreal, 1969 (Q & A - 18)
["We actually are all one person"] - [Photo, Coney Island, 1940 - Weegee]Transcription from Allen's 1969 Montreal Q & A continues here and concludes this week. (Comprehension is difficult in this...
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Montreal.1969 Q & A - 19 (Conclusion)
Student: : Do you consider marijuana or tripping a good alternative to the pain of life and the terror of death?AG: Do I consider marijuana or tripping a good alternative to pain of life, the fear or...
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4/20 - Allen Ginsberg's 1992 High Times Interview
Allen Ginsberg's High Times interview with Gregory Daurer appeared originally in February 1992.Before the interview Daurer penned a few introductory paragraphs:"Count Beat poet Allen Ginsberg among the...
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On Timothy Leary - A 1996 Telephone Interview with Peter Gorman
[Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary atthe Human Be-in, Golden Gate Park. San Franciso, 1967 - Photograph © by Lisa Law]] [Timothy Leary, 1967 -...
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[Scrap Leaves (1968) and Sad Dust Glories (1975) - two early Allen Ginsberg pamphlets]Michael Schumacher, author of The Essential Ginsberg...
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Saturday April 23 - (Shakespeare Weekend)
"Poetry leaves its own skeleton hanging in the air/like BuddhaShakespeare Rimbaud" ( - from Allen Ginsberg's 1974 poem, "Manifesto" )"Shakespeare left his breath for us to hear his Cadence…" (Allen...
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