Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 780
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...
View ArticleKenneth 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...
View ArticleGordon Ball’s Ginsberg & Beat Fellows
If you’re anywhere near New York this week, don’t miss this evening! A key figure at this week’s Ginsberg Centennial is photographer, filmmaker, editor, author, all-around Ginsberg scholar, Gordon Ball...
View ArticleBeat Scene (Beat Scene Back Pages)
A worthy cause – Beat Scene – Beat Scene, the long-running (UK-based) magazine. Kevin Ring, the editor writes: “Beat Scene Back Pages – Number 2. This is a digital-only variant issue of the magazine...
View ArticleBob Dylan’s 85th Birthday
Bob Dylan celebrated yesterday in St Paul Minnesota Bob Dylan turns 85 today – the Dylan-Ginsberg connection Randy Roark provides invaluable pages – here and Steve Silberman, back in 2018, very kindly...
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There will be a major gathering at The Poetry Project, New York City on June 3rd, on Allen’s birthday The organizers of the event are Peter Hale and Eliot Katz (the Ginsberg Estate in conjunction with...
View ArticleRobert Creeley Centennial Celebration – 2
Creeley on Ginsberg (from The Allen Ginsberg Project) – here and here. Ginsberg on Creeley – here and here A four-part conversation in Buffalo in 1980 – here, here, here and here Creeley and...
View ArticleFriday’s Weekly Round-Up – 767
Allen Ginsberg, Prague, May 1, 1965. Photo: Karel Syrp Mayday – “Kral Majales” – a significant day today in the Ginsberg Calender. We’ve posted about it extensively here on the Allen Ginsberg Project....
View ArticleFriday’s Weekly Round-Up – 762
Allen Ginsberg- from”America” – from Thomas W. Benson Political Protest Collection, Pennsylvania State University This nightmare we’re living through – Mickey Friedman presents a passionately-argued...
View ArticleFriday’s Weekly Round-Up -761
Ginsberg Centennial celebrations continue. Theaterhaus Jena‘s pioneering one-woman show “Howl” (that we alerted you to here) featuring Thato Kämmerer was, from all accounts, a great success (ein...
View ArticleGinsberg and Kerouac in The Jim Irsay Collection
A little more follow-up on the Christie’s Jim Irsay sale – The Jim Irsay Collection – Icons of Pop Culture (which began on Thursday, continuing and concluding today). We noted Thursday’s ten-million...
View ArticleFriday’s Weekly Round-Up -760
Friday the 13th – but don’t worry, black cats are a positive symbol too. David S Wills in a brief note, back in 2017 in Beatdom – “Beat Poets and Their Feline Friends“, cites this line (from Allen’s...
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