Don’t Hide The Madness – read David S Wills’ “Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men’, his review of the Ginsberg-Burroughs book on Beatdom – here
Allen Ginsberg photographer, the UK-based Far Out magazine. features a deftly-chosen annotated photography portfolio
Stuart Walton in the LA Review of Books on Jack Kerouac’s painting
Baudelaire’s suicide note – Baudelaire
Lorca as a graphic novel – Lorca
Francesco Clemente in his recent Vulture interview “I still believe in the America I loved as a teenager. I still believe in Emerson, Thoreau, Ginsberg, and all the rebels and mystics”.
“Why Do The Powerful Fear Poets?” – Ai Weiwei‘s PEN Artistic Expression Award speech – can be read (and/or listened to) – here. (and more from Ai Weiwei – here)
“..Can we, for example, pinpoint when Allen Ginsberg stopped being a beatnik and became a hippie? It is impossible?” – Juliane Fürst, guest curator of the recent exhibition at the Wende Museum, “Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture“ in a recent interview in the LA Review of Books) More about that intriguing (sadly-no-longer-on show) exhibit (Russian hippies) and Fürst’s pioneering scholarship – here and here
Today (November 16) is the anniversary of the birth of the great “New York School” poet, Ted Berrigan. For our fond (2013) appreciation – Happy Birthday, Ted! – see here
and tomorrow at City Lights, a tribute to another New York School luminary – Bill Berkson