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[Allen Ginsberg in 1966 - Photograph by Charles Gatewood]The recent death of San Francisco photographer, Charles Gatewood a few weeks ago, passed by unannounced...
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Allen Ginsberg and Miguel Algarin - 1994 Naropa 20th Anniversary Reading
[Miguel Algerin]The following is the first part of a July 1994 Naropareading, celebrating, as is pointed out, the twentieth...
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Sir Patrick Spens - 2 (Child's Ballads & Percy's Reliques)
AG: Reed (Bye), I'm sorry?Reed Bye [sitting in on the class] : This Oxford version [of "Sir Patrick Spens"] has quite a few more verses.AG: It does?RB There's the whole sinking of the ship...AG: Well,...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads ( Lord Thomas and Fair Annet & The Unquiet Grave)
[Illustration by Vernon Hill for "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" from Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope (1912)]AG: Then, the next one [the next ballad] in our book, "Lord Thomas and Fair...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads (The Wife of Usher's Well)
AG: So "The Wife of Usher's Well" - another great classic among them. (It) has.. One thing you can see in this one, which is throughout all the ballads, but one thing I noticed is that.. well, the...
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The Last Word on First Blues
The eagerly-awaited Allen Ginsberg three-CD box-set,The Last Word on First Blues, is officially released tomorrow. Here is the track-listingDisc One1. Going To San Diego2. Vomit Express3....
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Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac, December 17 1950
[Reproduction of the first page of the "Joan Anderson Letter" from the Christie's web-site - © Cathy Sylvia Cassady, Jami Cassady and John Cassady]Christie'sauction house in New York yesterday...
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We mentioned last week the upcoming Beat & Beyond gathering, scheduled for June 3 to June 8 in New York. Here are the details.The six-day festival kicks off with a Happy Birthday Allen evening -...
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May 21 - Robert Creeley's Birthday
[Robert Creeley - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - [Ginsberg caption: "I wanted to focus on a sharp clear eye - Robert Creeley's friendship, July 1984, Boulder"]]Robert Creeley's birthday (he would have...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Little Musgrave & Lady Barnard)
Allen continues with his survey of the English and Scottish ballad traditionAG: There’s actually just a great mass of delightful material to cover with the ballads. And where we left offwas with “the...
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Bob Dylan's Birthday - 1 (Happy 75th, Bob)
Bob Dylan is 75 years old today. Last night the party began and today it continues at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Festivals and celebratory events all around the country (all around the...
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Bob Dylan's Birthday - 2 (Michael McClure on Bob Dylan)
[Bob Dylan in 2012, (aged 71), receiving from Baraka Obama the Presidential Medal of Freedom] [Michael McClure, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, 1965 - Photograph...
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Bob Dylan's Birthday - 3 (Stadium Poetry)
Alan Ziegler's moving account of his visit with Allen and his father, published in The Village Voice in July of 1976, shortly before the latter's death, is one of the most touching and heart-breaking...
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Percy's Song
[Dr. Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore]We've been examining the ballad tradition here on the Allen Ginsberg Project. Here's Bob Dylan's "Percy's Song"Percy's SongBad news, Bad newsCome to me...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Barbara Allen & The Baffled Knight)
Allen Ginsberg on Percy's Reliques and the Child Ballads continuesAG: "Barbara Allen" is another classic, You’ve all heard of… how many have heard of “Barbara Allen”?.. let’s.. I can’t imagine anyone...
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Friday' s Weekly Round-Up - 270
[ Allen Ginsberg - Photograph by Ken Sharp]Ginsberg-week next week on the Ginsberg blog - celebrating...
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Gary Snyder - 1994 at Naropa
[A section from "Mountains and Rivers Without End" - Lu Yuan (China, Qing dynasty, late 17th Century - handscroll ink on paper - from the Freer/Sackler Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art, Washington DC]...
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David Amram - 1994 at Naropa
[David Amram] [David Amram at Naropa, 1994 - Photo by Seth Brigham]continues from yesterday...
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May 29 - Harry Smith's Birthday
Harry Smith's birthday today. Learn more about the unclassifiable maestro and treat yourself to a viewing of his remarkable Early Abstractions -here (and/or Heaven and Earth Magic - here)"You...
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Peter Orlovsky Parinirvana
It's Peter Orlovsky's parinirvana again. Remembering Allen's life-time love, Peter.Check out these earlier postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project - here and hereSee also here and here also, noticing...
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