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March 27, 2024
Allen Ginsberg’s 1982 Naropa lecture on Dharma Poetics continues from here –
AG: As language is one of the, let us say, continuum that one appreciates, a little deeper to that and parallel to meditation is the awareness that poetry is vocal speech, or language, of course, but language also rides out[…]
March 26, 2024
It’s Gregory Corso‘s birthday today.
Born in 1930, he would be 94 (94! – hard to imagine a nonagenarian Gregory!).
In honor of his birthday we’re featuring this edited recording (from the September 16, 2018 “Tribute To Gregory Corso”, (organized by his editors, Raymond Foye and George Scrivani),
which took place, in[…]
March 24, 2024
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – outtakes from Richard O Moore’s 1965 WNET series, USA- Poetry
City Lights and Beat legend, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born on this day.
When Ferlinghetti turned 100, in 2019, San Francisco’s Mayor and the city’s Board of Supervisors turned his birthday, March 24, into, officially, “Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day”.
Events[…]
March 22, 2024
“Material Wealth” & George Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Shakespeare and Co bookstore, Paris, January 1982 – Photo by Steven Taylor, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate
Last night in Paris saw the end of the Material Wealth European tour with a reading at the fabled Shakespeare and Co[…]
March 21, 2024
Allen Ginsberg’s Dharma Poetics continues from here. (see also here and here)
AG: So poetry from Whitman through Pound, Williams, up through Robert Creeley has gone through progressive changes of form as it’s tried to approach the question, “How do you register perceptions directly? How do you manifest your perceptions?” First of[…]
March 20, 2024
Walt Whitman – Steel engraving that served as the frontispiece to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published on July 4, 1855
Allen Ginsberg’s 1982 Naropa Dharma Poetics lecture continues from here
AG: But in terms of our first teacher (Chogyam Trungpa)’s suggestion that we begin to appreciate our own country,[…]
March 19, 2024
Allen Ginsberg’s 1982 Dharma Poetics lecture continues from here
Student: Vipassana? – Samatha-Vipassana?
AG: I’m sorry. My mind is wandering. Samatha Samatha I’m sorry. The vipassana aspect
of it was the noticing the detail in the space around, right? The Samatha… how many here know what samatha means? was my question. And[…]
March 18, 2024
We feature today transcription of a lecture given by Allen at the Naropa Institute, July 13th, 1982 on “Dharma Poetics”. This was the seventh in a series of several talks presented by various speakers on “Dharma Arts”. Gratitude (as ever) to Randy Roark for his original work on preparing the transcription.
AG: […]
March 15, 2024
“The Music Lover” – Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg – Photograph by Elsa Dorfman
Allen Ginsberg
Tonight (March 15) at 7 pm BST at London’s Horse Hospital, Jesse Goodman and Peter Hale will introduce The Fall of America, two albums of compositions based on Ginsberg readings by artists including Scanner, Thurston Moore,[…]
March 13, 2024
It’s Allen Ginsberg month in London this month, courtesy the Horse Hospital and The Bureau of Lost Culture. This past Saturday, Iain Sinclair and (Barry) Miles were on hand to discuss “Counterculturing the Capital – Allen’s London Life”. Tomorrow, Sinclair will return with Blake scholar, Camila Oliveira Querino to discuss Ginsberg[…]
March 12, 2024
Jack Kerouac, 1960 – photo by Mario Jorrin – courtesy the collection of Sylvia Cunha and The Jack Kerouac Estate
Jack Kerouac’s Birthday today. Born March 12, 1922, that would make him 102! – Jack, you’re eternal![…]
March 11, 2024
“Iron Horse”, Youth (Martin Glover)’s contribution to the Fall of America Tribute project
“Iron Horse’ by Allen Ginsberg & Youth is a new album that re-imagines and sound-tracks Ginsberg’s epic spoken word poem “Iron Horse“.
“The poem is a poignant snapshot of countercultural 1966 America, documenting a summer journey across the United[…]
March 8, 2024
International Women’s Day today.
“It’s not a generation, it’s a state of mind”
(remembering and recognizing the words of the great Beat revolutionary, Diane di Prima)
Liesl Schwabe on LitHub (on “the work and legacy of the San Francisco Beat poet”) – “Revisiting the Radical Presence of Diane Di Prima”
Memory[…]
March 7, 2024
Celebrations tonight in London for Material Wealth, Pat Thomas‘ and Peter Hale‘s “deep dive” into The Allen Ginsberg Archives. This event, co-sponsored by The Bureau of Lost Culture, takes place at The Horse Hospital in London’s Bloomsbury, starting-time, 6.30 BST. Pat Thomas (the author) and Peter Hale (representing the Estate) will discuss[…]
March 6, 2024
Chagdud Rinpoche, Boulder Colorado, July 1995 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate
Chagdud Rinpoche (1930–2002), posing blissfully for Allen’s camera here, back in 1995,
on the occasion of his visit to the Naropa Boulder, Colorado campus, was a revered and
much admired Tibetan tulku, lama, teacher and practitioner of[…]
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