Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 693

Barry Miles‘ keynote address for the recent Global Blake Blake and Music Symposium is now available on You Tube – don’t miss it

Queer – the movie – News reaches us that Mubi, the organizers have gone ahead and scrapped an entire festival that it had planned in Turkey after local authorities put a ban on a screening of the film. Burroughs and censorship – hardly a new story – See here
Countdown to the opening of the movie in the US – The film opens in selected cinemas next Wednesday.

 Gary Snyder and Wang Ping– We’ve noted their collaboration several times on the Allen Ginsberg Project – see here, here and here – and now, more recently (this week) – here

Ping also writes about their relationship in the current (Winter) in-print issue of Tricycle – (specifically regarding her Chinese translation of Snyder’s classic “Riprap” – see here

 

Anniversary today of the death of poet Bernadette Mayer – the remarkable Bernadette Mayer –  Two whole years it’s been – much missed – See here

– and  here, here, here, here, and here

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Kevin Ring muses on this unidentified picture of Jack Kerouac in Italy – here

“Looking for a sign maybe, waiting for God to show his face?…Is Jack looking to the heavens here, or at the spire of some church?”

No need for an excuse to sing the praises of Beat Scene

No need for an excuse to sing the praises of Jack Kerouac