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August 7, 2026
Herbert Huncke (1915-1996), “Godfather of the Beats” – Tomorrow (August the 8th) will mark the 30th anniversary of his passing. As we have often done, here on the Allen Ginsberg Project, we celebrate him via footage taken by his friend and our friend, documentarian /videographer,Laki Vazakas. For this occasion, footage taken[…]
August 1, 2026
Allen’s “complex” legacy. Alexander Cheves article in The Guardian a few weeks back (subsequently followed up by discussion on Ron Silliman’s Facebook page and on Alfred Corn’s Facebook page and Reddit of course – the subject had actually been brought up earlier in a discussion with Ira Silverberg on NPR – let’s[…]
July 31, 2026
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 enthusiastic write-up this week in the Washington Post – “Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac and the self-mythologizing Beat Generation”– don’t[…]
July 30, 2026
Allen Ginsberg’s Centennial being celebrated around the world.
Tomorrow it’s in one of the essential locations, Boulder, Colorado.
On the occasion of his birthday this year (June 3rd) Naropa (initially Naropa Institute, now Naropa University) released the following:
“Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Allen Ginsberg – poet,[…]
July 29, 2026
AG: And then the text to use is, there’s only one really good text, prepared also by David Erdman, for Doubleday, Complete Poems and Prose of William Blake. [revised and updated 2008 – see here] The reason the text is important is if you don’t use the Erdman text you’ll be …[…]
July 28, 2026
Allen Ginsberg, 1991, on William Blake continues from here
So, A Blake Dictionary, Foster Damon, originally published by Brown University Press and published by our good, old Shambhala, republished, and out-of-print, but probably around Boulder you can get second-hand copies, and it’s in the library. Trident might have it. I didn’t see[…]
July 24, 2026
Allen Ginsberg reading, November 20, 1955 – photo by Walter Lerhman
More Ginsberg Centennial observation: Don’t miss Mikal Gilmore‘s five-part Substack Night Beat survey – (“The Last Poet“, “The Beats”, “Howl”, ““Death let you out, Death had the Mercy”“, “”Allen Ginsberg warns you/don’t follow my path/to extinction”“)
& speaking of Ginsberg over-views, […]
July 23, 2026
William Blake ms
Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan and two William Blake poems (from yesterday – continues)
AG: Then the religion one, that was interesting,
“I saw a chapel all of gold/ That none did dare to enter in/And many weeping stood without/Weeping mourning worshipping/ I saw a serpent rise between/ The[…]
July 22, 2026
William Blake (1757-1827)
We’ve been presenting transcripts of Allen on William Blake here on the Allen Ginsberg Project for some time now, and also welcome the opportunity of recommending Isolarri’s AH!MERICA, a recent volume, deriving from some of that text.
All of the texts up until now have been from Allen’s early[…]
July 21, 2026
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 with the rank of Captain, Assistant Grade, while reporting as a war correspondent for Collier’s magazine
Ernest Hemingway‘s birthday today. He was[…]
July 17, 2026
Douglas Field in the TLS (regrettably behind a firewall) notes Allen’s prescience about posthumous celebration – “In the title poem of Death & Fame: Last poems, 1993–1997,
Allen Ginsberg’s final, posthumously published collection, the speaker declares a wish for “a big funeral”. Written in the knowledge of the poet’s impending death, the[…]
July 16, 2026
Last Sunday in London at the Southbank Centre was an extraordinary celebration
Peter Hale and Jesse Goodman created and curated an evening that is destined to be remembered
Check out Simon Warner’s enthusiastic account on his Rock and The Beat Generation Substack – here
By way of further celebration, here’s a little[…]
July 15, 2026
Announcing today an important publishing event, Kate Bredeson‘s definitive edition of “The Diaries of Judith Malina
“The Diaries of Judith Malina is a four-volume set that publishes for the first time together the edited diaries of radical theater director, actor, and activist Judith Malina (1936-2015), co-founder, in 1947, with her husband[…]
July 13, 2026
Allen Ginsberg – still frame from Iain Sinclair and Robert Klinkert‘s 1967 film “Ah! Sunflower“
William Blake – stained-glass window at St. Mary’s Battersea Old Church, designed by John Hayward
Emanuel Swedenborg – Swedenborg House – headquarters of The Swedenborg Society
Tonight in London (following on from last night’s glorious celebration of[…]
July 11, 2026
Centennial Celebrations continue – Allen Ginsberg celebrations tomorrow and the next few days in London, England. We noted it yesterday but one more reminder..
See here – and here and here
Important update – due to illness, Anne Waldman will, regrettably, be unable to attend. Her place in the Sunday night line-up[…]
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