So, 2024 almost over, and looking back on some of the highlights on the Allen Ginsberg Project from the past year
January – John Wieners’ remarkable Pente, Huncke reads “Cuba”, William James and The Modalities of Consciousness, Steve Silberman on David Crosby, Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac
February – William Burroughs’ Birthday, Surrealism at Naropa, Beat Art – Anne Waldman on “The Power of the Gaze”
March – Material Wealth in London , Youth’s “Iron Horse“, Kerouac’s Birthday, Ferlinghetti Day, Gregory Corso Tribute
April – John Sinclair, Jean Genet, Gregory Bateson, Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Plymell, Carolyn Cassady
May – “Kral Majales”, Pete Seeger, “Siesta at Xblaba”, Gary Snyder at 94, Paul McCartney on “Battle of The Skeletons”, Allen Ginsberg & Ted Berrigan Visit Woody Guthrie’s House in Oklahoma
June – Jack Kerouac Self Portrait, Allen Ginsberg’s Birthday, Raphael Soyer, On the Composition of “Howl”, AG and the CIA
July – Allen Ginsberg on Visionary Experience, Allen Ginsberg on The Dick Cavett Show, Happy Traum
August – James Baldwin Centennial, Diane di Prima and Occult Tradition, Herbert Huncke & Louis Cartwright, Ed Sanders at 85, Hettie Jones, Tom Waits on Jack Kerouac, “Shanghai Song”
September – Allen Ginsberg Georgian Court College Reading, Robert Frank Centennial, Remembering Jim Carroll, William Carlos Williams’ Birthday, WNET Outtakes
October – Amiri Baraka’s Birthday, Peter Warshall, Michael Brownstein Naropa 1975 “Howl” video, Arthur Rimbaud’s Birthday, Remembering Joe Brainard
November – Quentin Crisp, Beat Generation Draft Cards, Ira Cohen, Harry Smith ,Queer, Abbie Hoffman and Kathy Acker
December – Burroughs and Warhol, Beat Punks (Ginsberg on Bob Dylan), JaninePommy Vega Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach, Patti Smith
Onward to the New Year!