Ezra Pound died and Kinky Friedman was born on this day.. wonder if this says anything about Jewish identity?
Don’t miss next Monday – The Blake Society’s William Blake Symposium – “Musical Afterlives” – a free, one-day, online symposium, “exploring musical settings of Blake’s poetry and his inspiration & classical and popular artists”. Keynote speaker is Ginsberg biographer and long-time friend, Barry Miles. For full details and to sign up for registration – see here
Allen Ginsberg and Francesco Clemente This past week in New York – Summer Love In The Fall, an exhibition of Clemente’s new paintings opening at the Lévy Gorvy Dayan Gallery
also last week – Ed Sanders interviewed in depth by our good friend Marc Eliot Stein on The World Beyond War podcast – don’t miss it – see also here
and also last week, (we noted it here) – the St Marks Poetry Project celebration for Love Joe – The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard