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Auden's "Victor"
Concluding our serialization of Allen-on-the-ballad form (from his 1980 Naropa class) with a poem, "Victor", by W.H. Auden AG: And then, there's this one - (W.H.) Auden - (We) might as well finish...
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Remembering William Burroughs
Nineteen years ago today, William Seward Burroughs passed away. He was 83. Here's John Giorno in Antonello Faretta's 2007 film declaiming his poem/remembrance, "The Death of William Burroughs" William...
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Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan's Desire
"Songs of Redemption" - Revisiting Allen Ginsberg’s liner notes to Bob Dylan’s classic 1976 album, Desire.SONGS OF REDEMPTIONHurricane, the only innocent Hurricane. protest song: Pro (in favor) –...
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Shelley's Birthday
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Horsham, England, on this dayHere's Allen reading Ode To The West Wind (from a 1981 Naropa class - see a full transcription of the classhere, and see also...
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[Allen Ginsberg testifies - chanting at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention - illustration by Nathan Gelgud] Throughout the summer,Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for The Daily, (The Paris Review's...
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Jim Carroll - (1986 Naropa reading - including "The Poet and The Vibrator")
[Jim Carroll (1949-2009)]The feature this weekend - a July 3, 1986 reading at Naropa Institute by Jim Carroll and Anne Waldman. Jim is the...
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Remembering Huncke
Twenty years on. It's scarcely imaginable. Herbert Huncke, "Beat Godfather" died on this day. In memoriam, our good friend Laki Vazakas has provided us with this new Huncke footage - Huncke reading...
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Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)
Jerry Garcia died on this date 21 years ago in 1995, "Deadheads" around the world mourn. Here's Allen's photo of Garcia backstage on the concluding night of the Grateful Dead's historic five-night...
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Bob Dylan Touring With The Grateful Dead
Wanting to keep the Grateful Dead theme going this week. Here's "Bob Dylan Touring with The Grateful Dead" (from "Wait Until I'm Dead"). Warning - only minimum Grateful Dead content! (but plenty of...
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Natalie Merchant and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
[Natalie Merchant and Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg]Natalie Merchant and Jimmie Dale Gilmore today on The Allen Ginsberg Project.This photograph was taken back...
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Summer-time reports. In Paris, at the Pompidou, the Beat Generation showcontinues(and don't forget (in its last weeks now) the Velvet Underground New York Extravaganza exhibit at the Philharmonie,...
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Jim Carroll Workshop - 1
[Jim Carroll - album cover - Catholic Boy(1980) - cover photo by Annie Liebovitz]Beginning today, serialization of transcription of Jim Carroll's June 30, 1986 Naropa Poetics...
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Jim Carroll Workshop - 2
continuing from yesterday - Jim Carroll's workshop JC: Well, I’m going to play a song that was a great.. one of my favorites…..Actually, I’m going to play this early Velvet Underground songand then...
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Basil Bunting's Lectures on Poetic Origins - 1
[Basil Bunting (1900-1985)]AG: Some of the ideas that (Basil) Buntingwas laying out, I would like to lay out here because they’re just very...
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Basil Bunting's Lectures on Poetic Origins - 2 (The One-Eyed Ford)
[Rusty 1941 One-Eyed Ford Coupe - Photograph by Jeffery Wells via flickr]Student: Is the "one-eyed Ford" something you just made up now?AG: No , the "one-eyed Ford" is a...
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Basil Bunting's Lectures on Poetic Origins - 3
[Basil Bunting(1900-1985)]Allen Ginsberg's remarks on Basil Bunting's lectures continuesAG: So then, the next thing would be the comparing of...
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Basil Bunting's Lectures on Poetic Origins - 4
[Basil Bunting (1900-1985) - Photograph by Derek Smith] Allen Ginsberg's remarks on Basil Bunting's lectures continues - see here, here and hereAG: So Louis Zukofsky,...
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[Allen Ginsberg Close-Up, 1960s - Photograph by Perry Riddle]Jonah Raskin reviews The Ginsberg 3 CD set for the Huffington Post - here:"The Last Word on...
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Jim Carroll workshop continues - 3 - (Bob Dylan)
This weekend, following on from last weekend, transcription of the 1980 Jim Carroll music and poetics workshop at Naropa continues. For the two previous segments - see hereandhere JC: And also I...
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