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Allen Ginsberg – Ars Poetica – Dallas Texas 1980 – Joe Stanco Interview
Following on from last weekend, and complimentary to an earlier tape that we featured (from Richmond College, Dallas Texas), another video gem from the Stanford Archives – Ars Poetica – An Interview...
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[Michael McClure, at Jerry Brown rally, Washington Square Park, New York City, April 1992. Photo: Allen Ginsberg] It’s Michael McClure’s birthday. The legendary Beat poet turns, astonishingly, 85...
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[Allen Ginsberg, photographed by Kiyohide Hori] Never did get around to mentioning Kiyohide Hori’s photo-show of Allen and of the Howl manuscript that took place (sadly now it’s down) in Japan this...
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Our good friend John Suiter’s photo-essay on Jack Kerouac’s Lowell is a must-read. He recently complimented it with this equally-inspiring photo-essay on Jack Kerouac’s Mexico. Speaking of Kerouac,...
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Several more images from the upcoming show of Jack Kerouac’s art at the Maga Museum in Gallarante, Italy, have been made available – here – on the Ansa web-site. Jack Kerouac. Beat Painting’, curated...
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David Amram’s Birthday
[David Amram performing “Waltz After the Fall” via jackshalom] David Amram celebrates his 87th birthday today Recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from Kansas City’s Folk Alliance...
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David Amram Remembers Jack Kerouac
[David Amram and Allen Ginsberg with Jack Kerouac and Larry Rivers at a diner – during the making of Pull My Daisy, 1959 – Photograph by John Cohen] Continuing our celebration of his 87th birthday...
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Philomene Long’s The Beats – An Exisitential Comedy
We continue our spotlighting of video now available via the digitalization of Allen’s Stanford University archives. Today – Philomene Long & (Jay D Kugelman)’s LA-based documentary from 1980, The...
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Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg November 1957
[Jack Kerouac reading at The Village Vanguard, December 1957. Photo via Dave Moore on Paul Maher Jr’s Jack Kerouac-Writer ] Another Ginsberg letter today – this one to Allen (dated November 30, 1957...
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We promised we’d have word for you, and now it’s finally out! A definitive Chinese edition of the Collected Poems 1947-1997, from Chinese publishing house Shanghai 99 has just hit stores in China – a...
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Kerouac’s Christmas
Jack Kerouac‘s Christmas memories. The following is an excerpt from a piece he wrote, in December 1961, for Glamour magazine, a prose sketch entitled “Home at Christmas”. Snow-bound Pawtucketville...
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Reposting and restating last week’s big news – “Howl’, a newly-assembled red vinyl box-set will be available soon – next month – from Craft Recordings. February 23 is slated as the release-date....
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Opening tonight in New York, at the New York Public Library, You Say You Want A Revolution – Remembering the Sixties – a comprehensive exhibition, drawn from the library’s holdings, “exploring the...
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Next week, Neal Cassady‘s birthday., On Friday and Saturday, next week, they’ll be the big celebration in Denver (with special guests, Jami Cassady and David Amram – for more information on those...
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Neal Cassady’s Birthday
[Neal Cassady (1926-1968)] – Photograph by Herb Greene via The Grateful Dead Archive Online] Neal Cassady‘s birthday today, born February 8, 1926 in Salt Lake City. In Denver tomorrow, the David Amram...
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Allen Ginsberg and “The Shrouded Stranger”
[Lamont Cranston – The Shadow – “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”] AG: This isn’t in the the same meter (as Tom O’ Bedlam) but it’s a similar theme – [Allen next proceeds to read, in...
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AG: And another one of the similar.. well, of a similar theme, just a crazy (crazy).. – the mad song? you know, just the idea of the madman’s song?, was – “Pull My Daisy”, (which began as a little...
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On “Stanzas Written At Night in Radio City”
[Radio City Crossing. photo by Henry Silberman] On “Stanzas Written At Night in Radio City” [hear Allen in a recording of him reading the poem (from the LP/CD “The Lion For Real”) here – (and. here...
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[Allen Ginsberg, Venice, Italy, 1995 – Enzo Eric Toccaceli – from the show “Beat Generation, Ginsberg, .Corso, Ferlinghetti Viaggio in Italia“] “Beat Generation, Ginsberg Corso, Ferlinghetti Viaggio...
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Vojo Sindolic’s 1986 Belgrade Interview – part one
[Allen Ginsberg in Belgrade, 1986] Vojo Sindolic‘s 1986 interview with Allen in Belgrade (in two parts – the second part will follow tomorrow) is our focus on The Allen Ginsberg Project this weekend....
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