June 3 – Allen Ginsberg’s Birthday

Every year it blossoms. The tree planted in memory of Allen in the back yard at St Mark’s Church the flowering dogwood, the good old Kousa dogwood. It did it again this year

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLEN!

Birthday celebrations tonight and a stellar reading in New York City at Poets House to launch the eagerly-anticipated publication of The Essential Allen Ginsberg.
Readings and performances of the poet’s work included in the collection by Bob Rosenthal, Eliot Katz, Steven Taylor, Eileen Myles, Sharon Mesmer, Lee Ann Brown, Amy Lawless, Dawn Lundy Martin, Uche NdukaRyan Doyle May  and the collection’s editor,

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