Allen, writing to Gary Snyder from Boulder in 1975 – vintage days (early days) at Naropa
“…Up in the mountain – W.S.Merwin sitting and coming to classes on Vajrayana and having intelligent suppers with Gregory and Anne and Joan
My parents here for two weeks in my big apartment. Ed Sanders and wife and babe here now. Philip been here and Ted Berrigan and New York poets Anne brought in – Dick Gallup – local poets –Jack Collom – extended meeting, and we’re all housed in an apartment ghetto. one big house with Lama Karma Thinley and Francesca Fremantle, Sanskritist just published new translation Book of Dead.”
and now it’s 2025, fifty years later. Allen is gone (almost all of them gone) but Anne is still here.
Anne Waldman on the history of Naropa (now Naropa University) and, in particular, the Jack Kerouac School For Disembodied Poetics – here
Last year marked the 50th Anniversary of The Summer Writing Program.
So this summer, the 51st. “The Living Thread” is the theme this year.
Registration begins in the Spring (April 7) but here’s an early notification
week one – June 8-14
week two – June 16-21
week three – June 23-28
For full details/ for further details see here
A little late in mentioning it, but this year’s Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow at Naropa,
Julian Talamantez Brolaski gave the lecture last month (on “Rhyme and Etymology”).
They’ll be returning in the summer and be among the several participants in week three of the Summer Writing Program.