For our Spanish-language readers – Allen Ginsberg in Chiapas (“Allen Ginsberg en Chiapas”) – Andres Fabregas Puig continues his examination for Chiapas Paralello – here and here and here
Kerouac Centennial – Kerouac Centennial continues – Here‘s another treasure from our archives (reporting on other archival treasures) – Allen and the Beats in 1973 at Salem State. We’ll have more on that monumentous occasion (full transcripts) anon
Gary Snyder Collected Poems celebration (we mentioned it last week) – if you weren’t able to catch it, the video is available – here
Today (July 22nd) marks the anniversary of the death of the maverick poet, iconoclast and filmmaker, Piero Heliczer (1937-1993) – See our 2020 posting about him – here – See also his daughter, Thérèse Casper’s documentary film about him (now completed) – The Invisible Father (and Michael Limnios‘ interview with her about Piero – here)
Speaking of poète maudit, the great John Wieners is presented in a recent release by the continuing-provocative German outlet Moloko Plus (see our note on recent William Burroughs publications here – and here)
Hiatus, a selection of fifteen of Wieners’s poems, has recently appeared on CD (in both English and with a German translation) by British poet Jeremy Reed and musician Gerry McNee (Itchy Ear) (translations by Pociao) with an accompanying 44-page booklet.
Read Gillian McCain‘s 2019 interview with Reed on Please Kill Me – here
Moloko Plus are publishing in collaboration with the Rotterdam-based Sea Urchin
One of their recent titles – Ed Sanders – In Honor of Ted Berrigan
which gives us the perfect “excuse” to remind you of the upcoming publication of this
September 14th – City Lights will schedule a Zoom Launch Party for the book – don’t miss it – see here