Bob Kaufman Centennial celebrations continue in San Francisco today and tomorrow. Tonight at 5 pm (PST) at Golden Sardine (sic), a poetry reading with readings from Kaufman by James Cagney, Garrett Caples, Kevin Dublin, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Erica Lewis, & (in French translation) Quentin Jeanroy.
Following that, at 7 pm (PST), at Sunnyco Studio, moderated by John Geluardi – Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell discuss The Collected Poems – followed by choice words from San Francisco poet laureate, devorah major.
Saturday, the location is The Lion’s Den, and a group reading of “Second April”, with additional words and music by Eric Mingus
In addition, Nicholas James Whittington, of Impart Ink has produced a limited edition letterpress broadside especially for the occasion (a limited edition of 100 copies), featuring Bob’s “Bonsai Poems”. Copies will be available at the events and all proceeds from sales will go to his son, Robert Parker Kaufman
Salutations to the great Bob Kaufman!
Archivist Scissors, Anne Waldman’s new book (we noted it here) gets a book launch tomorrow at New York’s Mast Books – and at Harvard this coming Tuesday, with a reading at the Houghton Library (6 pm (EST), followed by a reception at The Poetry Room.
Kathy Acker, born on this day. Check out our postings on Kathy – here, here and here
Jack Kerouac – We noted last week two early reviews. We”ll have more on Charles Shuttleworth’s Jack Kerouac – The Buddhist Years later this month. Meanwhile, an interesting bit of Kerouac news. Peter Harrington Rare Books has some hitherto-unseen early correspondence between Jack and the publisher Robert Giroux for sale – see here
The Counterculture Museum gets ever-closer to completion.
and a biography forthcoming about Timothy Leary‘s wife, “style icon”, woman-behind-the-scenes, (look out for it) – Rosemary Woodruff Leary