No Friday-Round Up last week, so a little catch up today, starting with Sean Elder’s Gary Snyder interview, “National Treasure,” in Lion’s Roar.
GS: “The first time I met Allen Ginsberg was at Rexroth’s house—Allen had just come up from Mexico. The first time I saw Kerouac was when Allen brought him to Rexroth’s place. Because Allen was living in Berkeley, I saw more and more of him. Kenneth thought of both Jack and Allen as “talented jerks.”
SE: Was that his phrase or yours?
GS: I don’t remember. They weren’t quite grown up yet.”
Anne Waldman is just back from a triumphant visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India. Read an interview with her here and another interview here.
While we’re on the subject of poet-interviews, here‘s a recent interview with poet Jack Hirschman that the Las Vegas Weekly ran before his reading there last week.
Kerouac for kiddies? – Alison Flood opines on the dumbing-down phenomena of an On The Road picture-book for children
Three years today since the passing of the great folk troubador, Pete Seeger
