December 30 – Round-Up 496 – The Last Round-Up of the year. Looking back on a year of posts here on The Allen Ginsberg Project, here’s a few highlights:
January – Michael Stipe, John Wieners and Magic, Howlin’ Wolf, Lead Belly, Alan Ansen Centennial, Philip Glass’ 85th Birthday
February – Bob Rosenthal on the Magic of Allen Ginsberg. James Grauerholz on William Burroughs, Kay McDonough on Gregory Corso
March – Pasolini Centennial, Kerouac Centennial, Francesco Clemente’s Birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Birthday, Gregory Corso’s Birthday, Steven Taylor on William Blake
April – Mark Olmsted on Chogyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg Planet News Memorial, Remembering Hal Willner, Barbara Rubin’s Allen For Allen, Iggy Pop at 75, Allen Ginsberg 1993 Oslo Interview
May – Bernadette Mayer, Bob Dylan in Tulsa, Harry Smith, Peter Orlovsky, Walt Whitman
June – Allen Ginsberg on Meeting The Beatles, Allen Ginsberg’s Birthday, Laurie Anderson at 75, Bob Rosenthal on Ginsberg and Cherry Valley, W.B.Yeats, June Jordan, Proust and Kerouac, Gay Pride, Burroughs’ Books, Neeli Cherkovski
July – Mexico City Blues, Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard & Kenward Elmslie. Gus Van Sant
August – Shelley/Satchmo, Charlie Parker Interviewed, Harold Chapman, Charles Reznikoff
September – On The Death of Joan Burroughs, Moondog (& Reich & Weir), Ted Berrigan, Ted & Allen, William Carlos Williams
October – Amiri Baraka on Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Jacob Rabinowitz on Allen Ginsberg and The Heart Sutra, Arthur Rimbaud, Edith Ginsberg, Ezra Pound & James Laughlin
November – Ezra Pound 50 Years On, Naropa Archives, Alice Notley, Joe Brainard, Dick Gallup, Kurt Vonnegut Centennial, William Blake’s Birthday, Kathy Acker
December – Vachel Lindsay, Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz, Mark Van Doren, Grace Paley Centennial, Allen Ginsberg at Canton High School, Jonas Mekas Centennial
and today is the birthday (76th birthday) of the great Patti Smith – Happy Birthday, Patti!
and also the anniversary of the birth of the remarkable author and composer Paul Bowles
