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Spontaneous Poetics - 110 - Whitman 2
Whitman continued...Allen's Spontaneous and Improvised Poetics lecture of July 26 1976 takes up again on August 2 (Allen also refers to his classes that were missed, due to being summoned back to...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 111 - Whitman 3
[Walt Whitman's house in Camden, New Jersey (originally Mickle Street, now Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard), is now maintained and open to the public, and operates as a museum ] [Walt Whitman -...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 112 - Whitman 4)
[Walt Whitman in New York, 1887, aged 68, photograph by George C.Cox] AG: (Late Whitman) - "Songs of Parting", now, however...[Allen begins by reading Whitman's "As the Time Draws Nigh" - "As the time...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 137
[Beat Merchandizing - Ginsberg is God sweater by Bella Freud & Typewriter Tee - courtesy recently re-launched Official Ginsberg Merchandise]Comedy Central's "roasting" of the actor James Franco...
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John Giorno & William Burroughs At Naropa 1976
Continuing with our treasures from the Naropa Archives. Here's another early (July 1976) reading - John Giorno and William Burroughs (the introductions are not by Allen this time, but by Michael...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 113 (Whitman - 5)
[Walt Whitman, pictured in the last few months of his life, 1891, Camden, New Jersey - photograph by Dr William Reeder][1888 - Walt Whitman's Last Will and Testament]AG: (Whitman) - So what happens...
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Diane Di Prima's Birthday & Parkinson's Appeal
Diane Di Prima's 79th birthday today. We draw your attention to our 2011 post - and Dale Smith's piece in the L.A. Review of Books this past December - also to our post last August 6th announcing,...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 114 (Whitman - 6)
[Carte-de-visit portrait of Walt Whitman, 1864 via Library of Congress] Student: So a lot of this (late Whitman) was influenced by the Civil War, and a lot of his...?AG: Yeah. I read (to you from)...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 115 (Wordsworth - 1)
[William Wordsworth (1770-1850)- chalk drawing by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1818 - 21 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. via National Portrait Gallery]AG: ...with (William) Wordsworth, we have a funny, odd, different...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up -138
Introducing the Holy Litany Project. M.L.Kejara and Akina Rahman Khan hit upon the interesting idea of perhaps updating Allen's classic "America" for the 21st Century. They're sending out an open call...
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Herbert Huncke - American Hipster
American Hipster - Hilary Holladay's long-awaited biography of the legendary Herbert Huncke - is now out.Holladay, former director of the Kerouac Center for American Studies at the University of...
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Herbert Huncke's 1982 Workshop at the Jack Kerouac Conference at Naropa
["Old-timer & survivor, Herbert E Huncke, Beat Literary Pioneer, early decades thief, who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & me to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945....
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Spontaneous Poetics 116 - (Wordsworth - 2)
[Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), (1801), oil on canvas, 259 cm x 221 cm - currently in the collection of the Musée Nationale du Château Malmaison]AG: [Wordsworth] - I...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 117 ( Wordsworth - 3)
[William Wordsworth, in his youth, aged 28, (1798), oil painting by William Shuter - via Cornell University's William Wordsworth Collection] AG: Give Wordsworth credit (Shelley gave Wordsworth...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 118 (Wordsworth - 4)
AG: Now we find Wordsworth later (at the very end) writing poems on Law and Order! A group of "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty and Order"! I'm not reading them because they're great poems (although they...
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Spontaneous Poetics (Wordsworth - 5 Wordsworth The Reactionary)
AG: .. 1859-1840 - "Sonnets on the Punishment of Death" - Sonnets in favor of capital punishment ! - he'd gone that far! - did you know that?. Wordsworth wrote sonnets in favor of capital punishment!...
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Friday's Weekly Round Up - 139
Sometime last Monday, the one millionth page-viewing of The Allen Ginsberg Project took place. Thank you anonymous page-viewer. We sort of like the idea of not knowing who you are. Thank you all our...
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Ed(ward) Sanders
Ed Sanders74th birthday today. We want to salute this indefatigueable cultural warrior, as he so eloquently and movingly salutes his beloved mentor Allen, here:Here's a recent reading/performance, this...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 119 (Wordsworth - 6)
[William Wordsworth (1770-1850)]Allen's Spontaneous and Improvised Poetics Naropa lectures of the summer of 1976 pick up again on August 4th, 1976AG: I want to continue a little bit more with...
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Spontaneous Poetics - 120 (Calamus Whitman)
[Calamus or Sweet Flag]Well there's a funny kind of humor in Whitmanthat gives him a more ample mind than Wordsworth in his disillusion. I think partly because his original revolution was more deeply...
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