Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 235

Featuring shots last week from 1967’s fabled Human Be-In. Here’s another one – from Lisa Law

and here’s Lisa Law’s famous ecstatic one

And here’s a couple more from the generous and talented Lisa

James Sullivan on Lawrence Ferlighetti‘s Writing Across the Landscape, in the San Francisco Chronicle – here 

Mark Dery in The Daily Beast  on those incomparable City Lights Pocket Poets books – here

Jack Foley‘s review of Harold Norse‘s recent Selected Poems (I’m Going To Fly Through Glass) in the International Times –  here

John Wieners week this past week in San Francisco. Here’s Diane di Prima reading a few days ago (sic) at City Lights, reading her poem for John, “Letter to John Wieners (on his 37th birthday)”, and his extraordinary “With Meaning” (“Rise, shining martyrs..”)

Those of you in England, make a date for October the 10th, Manchester England (at the aptly-named Wonder Inn) and Simon Warner‘s “Still Howling“ event – a 60-year anniversary celebration – symposium and performances  (including appearances by “British Beat“, Michael Horovitz, Allen’s long-time music collaborator, Steven Taylor, Ginsberg (and Burroughs) biographer, Barry Miles, Peter Hale of the Ginsberg Trust. & many others)

More details and a little background –  here