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Spontaneous Poetics - 89 (Allen Ginsberg on Anne Waldman)
[Anne Waldman - Photograph by Greg Fuchs via AnneWaldman.org]Student: A lot of Anne (Waldman)’s poems are that way (oracular, rhapsodic) like “Musical Garden”, a breath of fresh air. They can pick you...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 90 (Ted Berrigan Defends Anne Waldman)
[Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan - Photograph by Gerard Malanga - Copyright The Photographer]Ted Berrigan: Are you making a criticism (of Anne Waldman) on those grounds (set theory,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 91
[The List Poem by Larry Fagin (2000, from Teachers & Writers Collaborative) - cover design by Trevor Winkfield] Student: I feel I have to defend myself against (you and) the rest of the classAllen...
View ArticleRebels - A Journey Underground
Our feature today - A New Kind of Bohemia, segment two in a a six-part series by Kevin Alexander, made in 1999 for Canadian television, Rebels - A Journey Underground.(The other episodes,...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 131
The Jean-Jacques Lebel multi-media Beat Generation exposition opened last week (simultaneously, in four European locations!). We've already shown one (Arte tv) - here's another - (Mirabelle) French tv...
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City Lights Celebration
City Lights60th Anniversary celebrations tomorrow. In anticipation of that august occasion, we look back on (and draw your attention to) the four-part series that appeared on the occasion of the 50th...
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City Lights 60th Anniversary
Happy (60th) Birthday City Lights Bookstore! City Lights Publications! City Lights!Abandon All Despair, Ye Who Enter Here, the City Lights blog is hereCity Lights web-site is here City Lights Allen...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 92 (Philip Lamantia - 1)
[Philip Lamantia - from the cover of his book Narcotica, published by Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1959]Allen Ginsberg's Spontaneous and Improvised Poetics class (sic) held at Naropa Insitute, July...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 93 (Philip Lamantia - 2)
[The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia - edited by Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron & Nancy Joyce Peters (with a foreward by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) forthcoming from the University of California Press,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 94 (Philip Lamantia - 3)
[Philip Lamantia (1927-2005)]AG: Would you like to hear some more (Philip) Lamantia?Student(s): YeahAG; Lamantia and (Gregory) Corso, oddly, are [1975] very much alive. Both Italian, both...
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Marianne Faithfull Reads (& Converses With) Gregory Corso
Marianne Faithfulland Gregory Corso, together in his last days - January 5, 6 and 7, 2001, in Robbinsdale, Minneapolis (Gregory died ten days later), recorded by Michael Minzer , produced by Michael...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 132
[Allen Ginsberg's very last photograph (1997), taken from his loft at 404 East 14th Street, New York City (and featured in the show 404 East 14, currently on exhibit at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New...
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Gay Pride Weekend
[Peter Orlovsky & Allen Ginsberg, 1963 - photograph by Richard Avedon c. The Richard Avedon Foundation - "I'm Gay For Ginsberg" t-shirt - Allen Ginsberg with unidentified friend, c.1968 c.The...
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Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program 2013
The NAROPA SWP (Summer Writing Program) begins today. The theme this year is "Symbiosis" - "Symbiosis is our rallying anthem for the summer of 2013, as poets and writers and thinkers and printers and...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 95 - (Artaud -1)
[Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)]AG: Well, there is a precedent for the kind of manic excitement and nervous neurological Ong-ed [sic] prophecy (of Philip Lamantia), and his big inspiration, aside from...
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Spontaneous Poetics 96 - (Artaud 2)
[Antonin Artaud - Self Portrait, 24 June, 1947]AG: I think (thatArtaud had) some influence on Samuel Beckett actually, and an enormous influence, in the (19)40's, on American poetry, in Black Mountain,...
View ArticleJuly The Fourth
AMERICAAmerica I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.I can't stand my own mind.America when will we end the human war?Go fuck yourself with...
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Friday Weekly Round-Up - 133
The Allen Ginsberg Festival kicks off next Thursday in San Francisco with a literary tour of North Beach by Allen's biographer (and bibliographer) Bill Morgan. On Thursday night at the Contemporary...
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More Vintage Corso
More Vintage Gregory Corso (culled from Michael Minzer/Hal Willner's two Corso recordings - Die On Me and Lieders) - (We've already featured Marianne Faithfull, in collaboration with Gregory, a week or...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 97 (Gregory Corso)
[Gregory Corso (1930-2001)] July 7 1976 Naropa class (on Spontaneous and Improvised Poetics) continues and concludesAG: (So), getting back now to the list again, to the litany, or the list, (and) how...
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