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November 8, 2025
Alice Notley reading at the St Mark’s Poetry Project, April 10, 2024 Alice Notley, who passed away, on May 19 of this year, would have been 80 years old today. We celebrate and remember her today About 20 poets, from Tucson and afar, will be reading from her work, tonight at 7pm, at the Steinfeld […]
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November 7, 2025
Release-date today of the Shimmy Disc reissue of Die on Me by Gregory Corso (with Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg and Hal Willner The remarkable Gregory Corso Beat Poetry and Fakery – We ran a post on an alleged Jack Kerouac manuscript a few weeks back. Following it up this week with notes on another […]
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November 6, 2025
Carl Rakosi (1903-2004), the longest-surviving of the legendary Objectivist Poets (though he had always some significant reservations about the usefulness of that tag) was born on this day (initially in Berlin, but, following his parents’ separation in 1904, moving to Hungary, and, subsequently, in 1910, immigrating with his father and stepmother to Kenosha, Washington). A […]
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November 4, 2025
Happening (November 5)- at home-base, City Lights, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, City Lights Live! presents Howl@70 This event will be held onsite at City Lights. It will also be broadcast on Zoom. To experience the virtual part of the event you will need a device that can access the internet and registration is required. […]
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November 4, 2025
Another great book recommendation – Poet John Wieners‘ disjunctive lyrical classic, Behind The State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike, first published by Boston’s Good Gay Poets Collective (most notably, via the energy of the much-missed Charley Shively) and sadly out of print, lo these many years, sees a re-publication by The Song Cave, in a 50th […]
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November 3, 2025
Patti Smith Bread of Angels: A Memoir. Cover Photo by Robert Maplethorpe “Robert Mapplethorpe took this photograph at a deeply transitional moment. It was between the end of my public life as a performer and the beginning of my time in Detroit with my one true love, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith. Robert had taken an image […]
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October 31, 2025
William Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas – photo: Philip Heying Well, it’s that time of the year again and we can’t resist running again Philip Heying‘s iconic photo and it’s also (coincidentally) John Keats‘ birthday John Keats death mask. From the Keats-Shelly Memorial House, Rome, Italy – Photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran and tomorrow Day of […]
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October 30, 2025
Olga Rudge and her daughter by Ezra Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, at Ezra Pound Centenary Conference, University of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1985 – photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate Anne Conover Carson – Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound: “What Thou Lovest Well” (2002) Mary de Rachewiltz – Discretions (1971- reissued […]
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October 27, 2025
Dylan Thomas. Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1952 – photographer unknown October 27, another birthday bonanza (birthday/death-day – Dylan Thomas and Lou Reed (now there’s a conjunction!) Dylan Thomas on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, and here (the latter being on the occasion of the Dylan Thomas Centennial) Lou Reed – here […]
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October 24, 2025
City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco unfurled these banners (see above) this past Tuesday with choice quotes from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Pity The Nation” Elaine Katzenberger, City Lights’ Executive Director is quoted: “The urgency of our current situation, nationally, internationally, and as a race of humans on the imperiled planet we share, needs everyone’s attention, and […]
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October 20, 2025
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) – photo by Étienne Carjat October 20th – another stellar birthday day – Arthur Rimbaud, Michael McClure and Philip Whalen For Rimbaud on the Allen Ginsberg Project – see here, here, and here, Allen Ginsberg lectures on Rimbaud – here and here – and here Allen on Arthur Rimbaud as one of […]
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October 17, 2025
That Kerouac “discovery”? – That “very significant” unpublished two-page story by Jack Kerouac, (entitled “The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing”), described by its owners, the collection company YOM, (Your Own Museum) as, “a quintessential lost chapter of the On the Road saga”, miraculously discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime […]
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October 10, 2025
It’s the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival this weekend Among the highlights: Today (at 2pm) “Rethinking Kerouac”, a book-launch for the recently-published essay collection, Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals ( a panel discussion hosted by the book’s co-editor, Erik Mortenson) – “Authors will not only talk about his work, including Kerouac’s visual art and lesser-known attempts […]
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October 9, 2025
Allen Ginsberg’s parlor organ – photo by Charles Barron How about some good news? We certainly need good news. Allen Ginsberg’s old parlor organ. Last month we sent out an SOS – We urgently needed a new home for it. After a host of enquiries, and with the increasing fear that we would not succeed, […]
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October 7, 2025
A major anniversary today – the 70th anniversary of the legendary 6 Gallery reading – and a major new book A Remarkable Collection of Angels, David S Wills‘ deeply researched definitive history of the event. (See Simon Warner’s interview with Wills and Jonah Raskin‘s review of the book in Rock and The Beat Generation – […]
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