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Walt Whitman's Birthday
[Walt Whitman (1819-1892), April 15, 1887, NewYork City - Photograph by George C Cox - courtesy the Bayley Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University & The Walt Whitman Archive]What thoughts I have of...
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Ed Sanders on the Life of Allen Ginsberg - 1
For the countdown to Allen's 90th birthday celebrations (he would have been 90 this coming Friday), we thought to feature a little biographical evocation - Ed Sanders, from 1998, a year after his...
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Ed Sanders on the Life of Allen Ginsberg - 2
continuing from yesterday, Ed Sanders on the early years of Allen GinsbergSo Allen then, by the end of high school learned that he was gay. And he had a crush on a guy from Paterson High School who...
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Allen Ginsberg's 90th Birthday!
[Allen Ginsberg at his bedroom meditation shrine, East 12th St, New York City, Autumn, 1995.Photo: Slava Mogutin]Born Newark, New Jersey, June 3 1926. Today would have been Allen's 90th birthday! In...
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Allen Ginsberg's 90th Birthday Celebration Continues - Ginsberg Portfolio - 1
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY, ALLEN! - A 90th BIRTHDAY PHOTO PORTFOLIO [top to bottom. Unknown, ca 1995; Photobooth 1989; Elsa Dorfman 1996; Maine news media services 1969; Wayne Slater, Denver 1982;...
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Allen Ginsberg Birthday Celebration Continues - Ginsberg Portfolio - 2
][Top to bottom: Stephen Miles 1994; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Photographer / Date unknown; Gordon Ball 1971;...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Johnie Armstrong)
[Johnny Armstrong - Henry Hetherington Emmerson (1831-1895) Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne]Allen's 1980 Naropa course on the Scottish and English ballads continues with a note on another of...
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The Poems of Basil Bunting
Thrilled to be able to announce the publication (publication-date is June 16 ) of a new edition ofThe Poems of Basil Bunting, lovingly and attentively edited by Poetry magazine editor, Don Share."This...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Mary Hamilton)
[Mary Hamilton Before Execution, St Petersburg - Pavel Svedomsky (1849-1904)] AG: "Mary Hamilton" - I think there is a recording of "Mary Hamilton" by Joan Baez. Did we ever track that down? Anyone got...
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Numinosity of Place - (Allen Ginsberg to John J Dorfner)
Here's an extraordinary item that we've been meaning to post, to gently remind readers about - Allen's note to Jack Kerouac scholar, John J Dorfner, from November, 1992 (it became the foreword to his...
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Friday' s Weekly Round-Up - 271
Starting on Sunday - week one of the Naropa Summer Writing Program (a four-week program through to July 9) - "Indra's Net Poetics". This week - "Hive Mind". Coming up - "Grids, Maps &...
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William Burroughs 1975 - 1
[William S Burroughs - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - © The Estate of Allen GinsbergToday we begin a four-part transcription of a class given by William Burroughs ("Poetry Academy -...
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William Burroughs 1975 - 2
We continue with our transcription from yesterday of William Burroughs' June 12 1975 lecture at Naropa InstituteWSB: Any product or invention is standardized by mass-production and this standardization...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - (Bonnie George Campbell)
AG: The next [ballad up for discussion] is "Bonnie George Campbell" - That has a funny lilt in it . It's sometimes written out in couplets rather than four-line stanzas. Is anybody good at dactylic or...
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The Path of Peace
This is what should be doneBy one who is skilled in goodness,And who knows the path of peace:Let them be able and upright,Straightforward and gentle in speech.Humble and not conceited,Contented and...
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Basic Poetics - Ballads - ("The Bitter Withy")
AG: "The Bitter Withy" (on page one-hundred-and-seven) has one exquisite line in it. Well, there's one pretty Donovan-esque line (Donovan? the English [Irish -sic] ballad-maker of contemporary days?)...
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Poetry Comics
[Eric Drooker's Illustrations for "Howl"][ Robert Sikoryak comics mash-up of Walt Whitman and Jack Kirby]Poetry comics - Poetry as comics - The Aristophanes of the genre, as he has been called is...
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Bill Berkson (1939-2016)
[Bill Berkson (1939-2016)]With great sadness, we report today the death of our dear friend, poet and art critic, Bill Berkson. A...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 272
[Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg - Photo by Elsa Dorfman]"Did Allen Ginsberg Secretly Want To Be Bob Dylan?"from Seth Rogovoy's mischievously-titled review of...
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William Burroughs, 1975 - 3 (Q & A))
[William S Burroughs (1914-1997)] Continuing from last week's William Burroughs June 12, 1975 Naropa class, we continue with the Q & A session, Burroughs covers a wide variety of topics. Student:...
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