This week, do we need to run again the Ginsberg Bernie Sanders poem? (see above a picture of their 1983 face-to-face) Allan M Jalon discusses the meeting of their two minds (and interviews Eliot Katz and Bill Morgan) today in the Jewish Daily Forward Here’s an earlier (vintage) picture of Allen (from the remarkable SUNY Buffalo University Archives)
And here (for no particular reason) another Allen snap
Le Tympan Marteau, formed by actor and performer Franck Andrieux, is an organization based in Lille (France).
Last year, he combined with Benjamin Duboc on double bass and Christian Pruvost on trumpet to produce “Allen Ginsberg’s Dances”. The digital album is available here. Video-clips of the work in performance just this week appeared on You Tube and are available here, here, here and here.
Simon Warner, author of the essential compilationText and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Beats and Rock Culture, and one of the organizers of the upcoming European Beat Studies Conference in Manchester, England, this summer, is profiled on Michalis Limnios’ continuingly exhaustive Blues.Gr space, we’re happy to report – see here.
Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow at the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa this year is Hoa Nguyen. She read and spoke this past Monday at the Performance Art Center on the Arapahoe Campus. More on that occasion here
No major reviews yet of the new Ginsberg book, Wait Till I’m Dead but check out this early word from Forever Lost in Literature – here
Marcia Resnick’s show, Poets, Punks and Provocateurs continues at the Howl Happening space in New York. We featured Allen last week. Here’s Gregory Corso:
& here’s another image from that collection:
