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September 27, 2024
Allen Ginsberg teaching, Brooklyn College, 1991. Photo by Chris Funkhouser Delicatessen Intellectual – a delightful account by poet Sharon Mesmer (“Teachers on Teachers”) is our lead-in story this week. (We would also draw your attention to an earlier video account (“Poets on Poets”). Sharon learned to appreciate and got to know Allen well. She first […]
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September 26, 2024
Umbra 2 (1963) – edited by Thomas C Dent, Calvin Hernton and David Henderson Allen Ginsberg at Georgian Court, 1995, Q & A continues: – see here Student (8): Were there ever any minority black Beats, in the line of Leroi Jones/ Amiri Baraka... AG: Quite interesting. In the “60s there was quite a liaison, […]
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September 25, 2024
Rev W.A.Criswell Pat Robertson Pat Buchanan Allen Ginsberg at Georgian Court, 1995, Q & A continues: – see here AG: So, I realized that everybody that was running everything was a bunch of dopes. Total blunders in every department and it was all covered over by some kind of.. by official-ese language. So the official-ese […]
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September 24, 2024
Allen Ginsberg at Georgian Court, 1995, Q & A continues: – see here Student (7): I was reading a book where you described the Beat movement as a “revolt against the machine”? AG: Did I? I made a lot of descriptions, but I (didn’t use “the machine”). Well, those were not my words, (and) not “revolt”. […]
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September 23, 2024
Stellar day of musical birthdays today – John Coltrane (born 1926) and Ray Charles (born 1930) – see here oh, and also the birthday of Bruce Springsteen (born 1949 – 75 today!) A little sampling of each of them (live in performance): John Coltrane in Belgium, 1965 Ray Charles in Paris, 1969 Bruce Springsteen
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September 20, 2024
“- Céline dead -/Old man/having image in – /nothing/Fare thy shade well in/all eternity./Bear our sorrows to the King – /Plead thee our curse to him/He receive us well” – notation in Allen Ginsberg’s notebook on Céline’s death, (1961) Louis-Ferdinand Céline scholar and aficianado, Jean van der Stegen recently created the above short-video, “The American […]
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September 19, 2024
Allen Ginsberg, 1995, at Georgian Court Q & A continues: – see here AG: What’s up next? How much time do we have left ? (checks watch) Eric Wurmser [teacher]: Do you want to take a … look there’s a question there. Student (6): … I was wondering if you could describe further the experiences […]
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September 18, 2024
Der Götze Moloch mit 7 Räumen oder Capellen; (“The idol Moloch with seven chambers or chapels)” in Die Alten Jüdischen Heiligthümer by Johann Lund) Allen Ginsberg 1995, at Georgian Court Q and A continues from here Eric Wurmser: The class has been exposed to “Howl” but I think they’d like to hear what you have […]
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September 17, 2024
Something To Say – W.C. Williams on Younger Poets (William Carlos Williams Archive Series),(New Directions, 1985) William Carlos Williams’ birthday – and we once again draw your attention to the extraordinary collection of recordings available at PennSound We’ve featured several of them here before, notably. here, here, here, here, here and here We’ll continue to […]
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September 16, 2024
Allen Ginsberg, 1995, at Georgian Court University Q and A Today’s continuing transcription begins at approximately five-and-three-quarter minutes in continues from here. (video for he previous transcript is here) The focus today is on Neal Cassady Student (5): I haven’t heard you mention (Neal) Cassady’s name at all tonight. You were mentioning the […]
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September 13, 2024
Our good friend, David S Wills, over at Beatdom, has two informative and provocative recent pieces on his always-entertaining site. The first of them, an experiment, done, confessedly, “out of silliness and morbid curiosity rather than any genuine interest in the technology’s potential” – (yes, we return to the embattled subject of artificial intelligence!) – […]
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September 12, 2024
More Q & A from the 1995 Georgia Court reading continues from here Student (3): How can we have renunciation and a great love of beauty? And does beauty have an ultimate value in renunciation? AG: Well, renunciation can mean not clinging to thoughts. Not having an irritable insistence on maintaining one thought or another. […]
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September 11, 2024
Jim Carroll – photo(s) by Allen Ginsberg We miss Jim Carroll (1949-2009), fifteen years ago, he passed away. Here’s the posting we made back then – Here’s a reading that he gave at Naropa in 1986 (including “The Poet and The Vibrator”) – Here’s one of Jim reading a considerable while later – “8 Fragments […]
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September 10, 2024
Allen Ginsberg at Georgian Court,1995 – Lecture ends here but continues with a Q & A session Question and Answer Period: video is available – here (beginning at approximately forty-eight minutes in) Student (1): (Jack) Kerouac has a poem that illustrates what you talked about earlier. AG: Yeah Student(1): Going from the particular […]
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September 9, 2024
Robert Frank, New York City, 7 Bleecker Street, 1993 © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation This year is the year of the Robert Frank Centennial. We post today on the anniversary of his passing, five years ago, September 9, 2019. Opening in New York, this Thursday, at the Museum of Modern Art – […]
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