So another year passes – looking back – here are a few highlights – some postings from the past year – on The Allen Ginsberg Project:
January – Nanao Sakaki Centennial – Herbert Huncke Reads “Elsie John” – Albert Hoffman and Owsley Stanley –
February – Allen Ginsberg on BBC World Service – Steven Weine’s Best Minds – Ferlinghetti As Painter – Kazuko Shiraishi
March – The 2022 Howl Ultra Run – The 1994 Holy Soul Jelly Roll Celebration – Juanita Lieberman – New Jack Kerouac Volume – Gregory Corso
April – Anne Waldman – Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Marlon Brando – Chögyam Trungpa Comix – Ivan Drach – John Ashbery – Samuel Greenberg
May – May Day – Pete Seeger – Daniel Berrigan – Ginsberg Family (Louis, Naomi, Eugene) – Harry Smith Centennial – Peter Orlovsky – Gary Snyder – Bob Thompson
June – Ginsberg Birthday – more Ginsberg Family (Alan Brooks) – Kenneth Tynan’s “We Dissent” – Daniel Ellsberg – Jerome Rothenberg introduces Allen Ginsberg – Allen Ginsberg KCRW Interview – Issa’s Birthday
July – Ginsberg San Francisco Memorial – Fernanda Pivano – Alex Katz at 96 – Mick Jagger at 80 – Frank O’Hara – Gertrude Stein – Anselm Hollo
August – Al Aronowitz – Lenny Bruce – William Burroughs Conference – Muses and Self (AI) – LSD documentary – Tompkins Square Riots (Anniversary) – Beat Scene – Charles Reznikoff – Charlie Parker’s Birthday
September – Beatdom – Edith Sitwell – Philip Whalen’s Journals – Zen Minds (Shunryu Suzuki, Baker Roshi, Issan Dorsey, Kobun Chino Roshi) – Larry Eigner – Felix Morrisseau-Leroy – Stephen Bornstein (on Kesey and Cassady) – Jack Smith – John Coltrane and Ray Charles – Tuli Kupferberg Centennial
October – Lew Welch Biography – Garrett Caples on Philip Lamantia – Gelek Rimpoche – Edie Parker Kerouac
November – Allen Ginsberg – Lars Movin Interview – Alice Notley – Ted Berrigan and Marianne Moore – Joanne Kyger – Harry Smith (again) – David Amram at 93 – James Schuyler Centennial – Material Wealth – Kathy Acker – David Gascoyne
December – Tom Waits – Kerouac-Ginsberg Correspondence – Peter Hujar – Benn Posset, and George Whitman
and there’s more
and don’t forget to catch, each Friday, our regular Friday Round-Ups
Happy New Year! – and onward to 2024!