Allen Ginsberg – Photograph by Cynthia Macadams
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Reddit – on what is his favorite Allen Ginsberg poem – “Aunt Rose” because it’s a very touching, deep and profound expression of love and empathy of his old Aunt Rose. It’s even more powerful than his long poem (“Kaddish”) about his mother.”
Harry Smith, Second Avenue and Twelfth Street (NYC), 1987 – Photograph by Brian Graham
John Wieners (1934-2002) – Photograph by Raymond Foye
Justin Taylor on John Wieners at Electric Literature
Joanne Kyger – Photographer unknown
Nightboat Books in New York have just recently reprinted the previously-out-of-print (and utterly wonderful) Japan and India Journals of Joanne Kyger More information about that title here
Olivia Cole ruminates on Frank O”Hara for The Paris Review
Robert Frank in The Guardian
John Giorno, celebrated in Le Monde
Luc Sante, our good friend, celebrates William Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs (from Howard Brookner’s 1983 movie Burroughs)