Kenneth Rexroth (Ginsberg and Rexroth)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) June 6 (1982) marks the day Kenneth Rexroth died, in Montecito, California, aged 76, “Father Figure”, as his New York Times obituary noted,”to Beat Poets” (see also Eliot...
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) – photo by Mario Geo All this Centennial activity, so a number of items have passed us by, but we wanted to alert you to them, notably gems from our ever-reliable Substack...
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Coming up for auction tomorrow at Sotherby’s, a truly rare Ginsberg item – “Siesta in Xbalba, and Return to the States”. “As Published by the Author, July 1956, near Icy Cape, Alaska, at the Sign of...
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Here’s another rare Ginsberg item – if you happened to have $45,000 to spare! – an autograph manuscript of his poem “Aether” (with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder), copied from (a)...
View ArticleJohn Suiter on Walter Lehrman (in the Journal of Beat Studies)
Allen Ginsberg, 1955 Walter Lehrman, 1965 John Suiter, 2002 “Nobody Goes Home Sad” – Photographs of the “Six Gallery” Poets 1956-2000 – Back in 2014, we reported on a show, a, frankly, groundbreaking...
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Allen Ginsberg reading “Howl” at Town Hall Theater, Berkeley, March 18.1956 – photo: Walter Lehrman John Suiter on Walter Lehrman and Allen Ginsberg continued from here “The Town Hall Theater at 2797...
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From a July 3rd interview (with Mary Reynard for the Earth Network) at Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 3. 1991 (sic) – see here AG: Tomorrow is July 4th and I wonder what I think about the...
View ArticlePeter Orlovsky’s Birthday
Peter Orlovsky – Photo booth snaps from circa 1954, around the time he and Allen first met met in San Francisco; cover of Peter Orlovsky – A Life In Words (2014), a posthumous collection of Peter’s...
View ArticleErnest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, 1944 – photo from his official War Department identification card by the Office of the Adjutant General in Washington, formally designating him as a civilian accompanying the Army...
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We mentioned it yesterday but we’ll mention it again today, 6.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. tonight – Centennial celebrations for Allen at the Boulder Bookstore. Gordon Ball’s Ginsberg and Beat Fellows gets an...
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