Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 676

Ginsberg in Canada. We’re very grateful for Gary Genoshko’s in-depth researching of a relatively obscure performance/reading in Thunder Bay (then Port Arthur), Ontario, at Lakehead University, “singing Buddhist chants and reading from his soon-to-be-published collection, The Fall of America”,  that took place back in March, 1969.

See his fascinating detailed investigation and observations  – here

 

Insomniacathon 2024: The Last Insomniacathon will take place next weekend at The Chapel of St Philip Neri, Louisville, Kentucky,  July 26-28.

The organizers explain:

“This will celebrate Ron Whitehead’s last official Insomniacathon, respecting decades of work of Ron and the past artists who have been these events together, It will feature somewhere between 50-100 poets and writers and over 30 bands and musicians”. It’ll be a historic 17th Insomniacathon, the longest one since 2001″.

Among the poets participating, George Wallace, Writer-in-Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, and John Burroughs, U.S. Beat Poet Laureate 2022-23.

Among the films to be projected –  films on Herbert Huncke, Janine Pommy Vega, Gregory Corso, and Whitehead himself.

For more information about the history and next week’s programming – see here.

 

An Anne Waldman discography – (the follow-up to Jim Cohn‘s deep-dive in Simon Warner‘s Rock and The Beat Generation, noted here a few weeks back), as promised, has finally appeared. Presented and compiled “with annotations of listening sources and availability online”, it’s a comprehensive and invaluable document . Don’t miss it.  See here

 

The Summer Newsletter from our good friends at EBSN  (the European Beat Studies Network) is now out and ready for your perusal (including news of next years EBSN Conference (to be held in Hildesheim, Germany, on September 15-17))

 

Vladimir Mayakovsky, the great Vladimir Mayakovsky, was born (actually July 7, but July 19 on the New Style calendar), 1893, in Bagdadi, Georgia. on this day.