Last night in Paris saw the end of the Material Wealth European tour with a reading at the fabled Shakespeare and Co in Paris
Interesting Ginsberg item(s) up for auction yesterday at Bonhams:
Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States, first edition, (one of approximately 50 copies), inscribed to Gary Snyder – “For Gary Snyder, another poet/ Kitkitdizze Aug 28, 1971/ Allen Ginsberg” – “As Published by the Author, July 1956, Near Icy Cape Alaska At the Sign of the Midnight Sun”. The item more than met its asking price, selling for £10,880 ($13,817).
Noted Czech poet Petr Hruška is on a brief North American tour, through till April 8th, and gives a rare reading today in New York at Columbia University – see here
Upcoming this Saturday (tomorrow), upstate in Woodstock, Andy Clausen
– celebrating the great Andy Clausen!
and Sunday, in England (Birmingham), at the Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space. – Steve Tromans and Howl – the 20th Anniversary Concert
Sad to record the passing of our dear friend Neeli Cherkovski – who died this week, following a heart attack, aged 78. Long-time resident of San Francisco, long-time Beat poet and biographer, long-time friend, we noted his extraordinary life and achievement – here.
For more on Neeli – see here
and his obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle – here
Rest in peace, Neeli