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Spontaneous Poetics - 80
[A Plan For A Curriculum of The Soul - Charles Olson, first published in Magazine of Further Studies #5, edited by Jack Clarke, Buffalo, 1968)]Student: Is it also a good idea, when you're doing this...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 81 (Form Is Just An Extension of Content)
AG: ..In this case, theform is no more than an extension of content. Got that? Form is no more than an extension of the content? Does everybody understand that in this case? Does anybody not understand...
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Harry Smith Would Have Been 90 Years Old Today
Here's Dizzy Gillespie, in 1947, playing "Manteca". Here's Harry Smith's transcription of the tune. Each paint stroke represents a musical note.Here's another of Harry's extraordinary art works, an...
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Peter Orlovsky Parinirvana
[Nude With Onions (Portrait of Peter Orlovsky) by Robert LaVigne (1954)]Peter Orlovsky, Allen's long-time partner died on this day in 2010. He was 77 years old. First glimpsed by Allen in the portrait...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 128 (Whitman's Birthday)
[Walt Whitman (1819-1892) c.1867-70 - Unknown photographer (probably William Kurtz) via The Walt Whitman Archives]Whitman's birthday today! (for Whitman-birthday celebration on The Allen Ginsberg...
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Announcing Naropa University's Digital Archive
THE NAROPA UNIVERSITY DIGITAL ARCHIVE Great news! Naropa's extraordinary audio archive (hitherto hosted as part of the estimable Internet Archive) has now been upgraded, refurbished and newly-hosted by...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg - 1996 Sarasota tv Interview
Allen's (87th) birthday tomorrow, but we figured to get a little into the spirit of things today.Here's a gem, recently uploaded to You Tube - Allen, interviewed by Patricia Caswell, in 1996, in...
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Allen Ginsberg's Birthday
June 3 2013 - the 87th anniversary of Allen's birthday. The dogwood we planted in the St Marks churchyard continues to flourish. For more on that tradition and our annual observation see here and...
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Spontaneous Poetics 82 (Edward Marshall - 2)
[Leave the Word Alone - Edward Marshall (title page spread, including print by James Kearns), Pequod Press, New York, 1979]This July 5 1976 “Spontaneous Poetics” lecture (a continuation from the...
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Spontaneous Poetics 83 (Edward Marshall - 3)
[The conclusion of Gary Snyder's "Myths & Texts Part III - Burning" opposite the opening of Edward Marshall's "Leave The Word Alone" inThe New American Poetry (1945-1960), Evergreen/Grove Press,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 84 (Christopher Smart)
[Christopher Smart (1722-1771)]AG: Then there was another set of details that I thought I’d go into today having to do, somewhat, with this sense of arrangement, with this interpretation of arrangement...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 129
Ginsbergian Zeitgeist - We're, admittedly, a little late in putting this up - but here's (recently-deposed) Russian power-broker/politician, Vladislav Surkov reading Allen Ginsberg (in English!) -...
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William Burroughs and Gregory Corso Reading at Naropa 1975
[Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs at Naropa Institute, Summer 1975. Photograph by Rachel Homer]From the remarkable Naropa Archives (that we spotlightedhere). Here's a truly, as Allen...
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Spontaneous Poetics 85 - (Allen Edits A Student's Poem - 1)
AG: (to Student) – Anita (sic) – do you have your poem?Student: Anita?AG: We were working on a poem before today, that was a long-lined poem, somewhat like this, in this form. Thanks. It’s a similar...
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Spontaneous Poetics 86 - (Allen Edits A Student's Poem - 2 - Allen Ginsberg...
[Ted Berrigan and Allen Ginsberg by Paul Killebrew via Poetry Foundation] Ted Berrigan: I’m in favor of the addition of as many words as possible in a poem…AG: Oh, God, I’m in favor of taking out as...
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Ginsberg Recordings - Wichita Vortex Sutra
Great news! hot news! - the new Ginsberg Recordings release! - Wichita Vortex Sutra! - This is a fully digitalized re-issued masterpiece (recognized at the time as, "one of Ginsberg's finest moments...
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Spontaneous Poetics 87 - (Allen Edits A Student's Poem - 3)
AG: Er.. (Well), unbeknownst to everybody - separately - every time anyone’s been giving me poems, I’ve been doing this to them [editing them], to about half, or a third, of the class, at...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 88 (Allen Edits A Student's Poem - 4 (Allen Ginsberg...
["Stars" - 1926 - oil painting by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)] Ted Berrigan: Well, when you say “I miss you like.., I miss you like.., I miss you like…” and each time after “like”, what you list, what...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 130
Allen Ginsberg, goaded on at the beginning there by a typically giddy Simon Vinkenoog, reads "Mafkees" (a.k.a. "Birdbrain") (from a reading in 1983, from Allen's European tour, recorded that year in...
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Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen 1975 Naropa Reading
[Philip Whalen, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg, Naropa Institute, 1975 - Photograph by Rachel Homer]Continuing with our vintage audio recordings. Here's Allen and Philip Whalen at Naropa, June 18,...
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