The Allen Ginsberg Project https://allenginsberg.org/ AllenGinsberg.org Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:22:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 119182016 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up -773 https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/ffidays-weekly-round-up-773/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/ffidays-weekly-round-up-773/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:49:11 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=119017  
(Allen Ginsberg – Self-Portrait on my Seventieth Birthday, 1996)
Centennial Celebrations continue. Looking forward to events in London next month. Mark your calendars (if you haven’t already) for Sunday 12th of July Allen Ginsberg at 100  at The South Bank Center, a smorgasbord of music, poetry, visual and vocal reinterpretation. Not[…]

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“Acting tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & relaxed together so they don’t even have to pay attention to each other, Gutterboy on the roof under Empire State Building‘s distant spire, September 12, 1991, Allen Ginsberg  – St Stanislaus of East 7th” – photo and caption by Allen Ginsberg

“Gutterboy[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/08-gutterboy/feed/ 0 117711 William Blake & Gender Politics – 2 (Kabbalah) https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-9-6/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-9-6/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:28:46 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118962 Ginsberg on Blake – The Four Zoas continues from here
Student: Well, I just want to say that in the Kabbalah, it’s hermaphroditic, too. (The Tree of Life.. the Sefirot)  particularly the very top of the ladder almost up to the (top)
AG: Yeah.
Student: …(male is female and female is male)[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-9-6/feed/ 0 118962 William Blake & Gender Politics – 1 https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/m-j-8-2/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/m-j-8-2/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:28:04 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118960 “Hermaphroditism” – see this short story by Herbert Huncke – “Elsie John“
Allen Ginsberg on William Blake continues from here
AG: There’s a lot of hermaphroditism (in Blake)
Student: Hermaphroditism is a parody of the joining of the male and female …
AG: Yeah.
Student: … in the ideal state.
AG: Yeah.[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/m-j-8-2/feed/ 0 118960 Kenneth Rexroth (Ginsberg and Rexroth) https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/s-j-6/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/s-j-6/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:58:53 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118746 Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
June 6 (1982) marks the day Kenneth Rexroth died, in Montecito, California, aged 76, “Father Figure”, as his New York Times obituary noted,”to Beat Poets” (see also Eliot Weinberger’s much later appraisal in Kevin Gallagher’s Rexroth feature for Jacket).
Here on the Allen Ginsberg Project, we’ve noted his undeniable[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/s-j-6/feed/ 0 118746 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 772 (Centennial Continues) https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/f-j-5-3/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/f-j-5-3/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:05:21 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118640 “I have been meditating on Alice Notley‘s image of Allen/ I see visionary eyes crooked lips wind of hair/ Basho forehead roundly voiced/all in Ginsberg at 100! – liars beware!”
(Bob Rosenthal)
Ginsberg Centennial celebrations this week (and plenty more to come!)
A list of some of the most recent recognitions and[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/f-j-5-3/feed/ 0 118640 Ginsberg Centennial at Howl Archive https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-4-3/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-4-3/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:45:41 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118636 Following last night’s extraordinary event at The Poetry Project (more on that to come) Centennial events in New York continue with a gathering tonight at Howl Archive (HA/HA) (250 Bowery, 2nd floor) – Allen Ginsberg at 100 – A Brief Walk Through Ginsberg’s Life –
a four-part symposium – featuring Bob Rosenthal,[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-4-3/feed/ 2 118636 Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday! https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/w-j-3-ag-birthday/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/w-j-3-ag-birthday/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:44:20 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118634 Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) – photo by Marvin Moore
Today we celebrate Allen’s birthday – and a major birthday at that – (what would have been his 100th) – with  a celebratory gathering at The Poetry Project in New York City

The order of  the poets and musicians who will be performing tonight:[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/w-j-3-ag-birthday/feed/ 0 118634 Kousa Dogwood https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-2-6/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-2-6/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:43:22 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118632 It’s become kind of a tradition here on the Allen Ginsberg Project, each year, every year, around the time of his birth (June 3rd)  –  the kousa dogwood tree (planted in his memory in the churchyard of St Mark’s, back in 1999, where tomorrow he will be feted with a joyous and[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/t-j-2-6/feed/ 2 118632 Gordon Ball’s Ginsberg & Beat Fellows https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/m-j-1-3/ https://allenginsberg.org/2026/06/m-j-1-3/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:42:33 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=118630 If you’re anywhere near New York this week, don’t miss this evening!
A key figure at this week’s Ginsberg Centennial is photographer, filmmaker, editor, author, all-around Ginsberg scholar, Gordon Ball

Gordon Ball – photo by  Patrick Hinely
Gordon is, of course, the author of the immensely readable, and pretty much definitive. account[…]

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