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Lowell Celebrates Kerouac continues this weekend. A brief note on some of the activities – Three events at lala Books (189 Market Street) – Today at 2.00 p.m – “LCK Talking Jack” – “An open-ended,...
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Centennial celebration continues. Tomorrow in Denver, History Colorado, the organization which oversees the state’s museums and historic sites, will be hosting a panel discussion at their center (at...
View ArticleBarry Miles on Ginsberg and Blake (and more)
We’ve been featuring Allen on William Blake all week (his 1991 classroom observations on Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence“) and will be continuing to do so, but pausing today to feature another...
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More Kerouac coming up for auction at Christie’s (in their online auction on October 31 (see here) including three letters to Allen, the earliest, a handwritten communication from August 1945 (‘early...
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Ginsberg Centennial continuing. Yesterday, the Jack Kerouac Center at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, presented its celebration reading, “A community reading of work by, about or otherwise...
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Allen Ginsberg, New York, June 1991 – photo by Aliah Rosenthal We’ve been mentioning (and excerpting from) Erik Mortenson‘s – Allen Ginsberg in Context this Centennial year – (see here and here and...
View ArticlePresident of Beauty – Lester Young
The Life and Times of Lester Young – Henry Ferrini (2013 trailer) President of Beauty – The Life and Times of Lester Young – Henry Ferrini (2026 trailer) Lester Young‘s Birthday today – Lester Young...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg at 100 – A Brief Walk Through Allen’s Life – 2 (Morgan,...
“I like this picture. We’ve often argued about..it was taken with Allen’s camera, but is it Allen’s photograph? is it Robert’s photograph? or is it just a mistake with the timer?” (Bill Morgan...
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Tomorrow (Saturday) 6 p.m. at the Counterculture Museum – “The Worlds of Jack & Neal” with Steve Edington and Cathy Cassady. Friendship – the two discuss the unique friendship between Jack Kerouac...
View ArticleJonathan Collins – Beat and Counterculture Portraits
Jonathan Collins has an upcoming one-man show of his “Beat and Counterculture Portrait” series at the Whistler House Museum of Art, in Lowell, Massachusetts opening on Saturday (August 22nd) and up...
View ArticleLew Welch Centennial
Lew and Allen, anti war protest outside the Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, where Madame Nhu (sister-in-law of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) proponent of US involvement in Vietnam,...
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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...
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...
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...
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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 ArticleSuiter on Lehrman – 2
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...
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...
View ArticleMore Ginsberg Rarities
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 ArticleA Ginsberg Rarity
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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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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