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June 30, 2026
Allen Ginsberg reading “Howl” at Town Hall Theater, Berkeley, March 18.1956 – photo: Walter Lehrman John Suiter on Walter Lehrman and Allen Ginsberg continued from here “The Town Hall Theater at 2797 Shattuck Avenue was the home stage the Berkeley Drama Guild, a Bay Area little theater group. On March 18, 1956, the theater was […]
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June 29, 2026
Allen Ginsberg, 1955 Walter Lehrman, 1965 John Suiter, 2002 “Nobody Goes Home Sad” – Photographs of the “Six Gallery” Poets 1956-2000 – Back in 2014, we reported on a show, a, frankly, groundbreaking show, at the Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. featuring recently-discovered images from San Francisco (Berkeley), taken in 1956, […]
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June 27, 2026
Previous Gay Pride postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project – there are many of them – see here “I put my queer shoulder to the wheel”, as Allen famously declares in “America” Allen continues to place his”queer shoulder to the wheel” posthumously, in this his Centennial year See Ira Silverberg‘s recently-published essay (in Rolling Stone) […]
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June 26, 2026
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky on the cover of Evergreen Review, August 1970 – photo by Richard Avedon So yesterday’s Sotherby’s auction that we alerted you to on Wednesday…… $15,360 for that inscribed-to-Karena Shields Siesta in Xbalba that Shields’ grand-daughter discovered in her papers – (and kudos to David S Wills with all of that) […]
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June 25, 2026
Here’s another rare Ginsberg item – if you happened to have $45,000 to spare! – an autograph manuscript of his poem “Aether” (with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder), copied from (a) notebook” from Lima, Peru,1960, available from the web-site of James Cummins, Booksellers The booksellers describe it: “The autograph manuscript of this long […]
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June 24, 2026
Coming up for auction tomorrow at Sotherby’s, a truly rare Ginsberg item – “Siesta in Xbalba, and Return to the States”. “As Published by the Author, July 1956, near Icy Cape, Alaska, at the Sign of the Midnight Sun”, one of approximately 53 copies that Ginsberg personally mimeographed on the USNS Sgt.Jack.J.Pendleton off the coast […]
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June 23, 2026
Allen Ginsberg teaching – photo by Chris Funkhouser Yesterday, we looked at Erik Mortenson‘ introductory notes to the Centennial volume on Allen, Allen Ginsberg in Context Today, we note Mortenson’s own contribution to that volume – Allen as pedagogue – “Ginsberg in the Classroom” “By far the most prevalent conception we have of Allen Ginsberg”, […]
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June 22, 2026
One of the highlights of the Ginsberg Centennial celebration has been the publication of a wide-ranging volume of scholarly essays, from Cambridge University Press, Allen Ginsberg in Context, edited by Erik Mortenson. We alerted you to it back in January – here “I am proud to claim”, Mortenson writes,”that Allen Ginsberg in Context is […]
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June 19, 2026
Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) – photo by Mario Geo All this Centennial activity, so a number of items have passed us by, but we wanted to alert you to them, notably gems from our ever-reliable Substack sources, Simon Warner’s Rock and The Beat Generation and David S Wills’ Beatdom Simon’s recent first-person Kerouac piece takes off […]
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June 18, 2026
Paul McCartney and Allen Ginsberg, Royal Albert Hall,London, October 1993, performing “Ballad of The Skeletons” Paul McCartney‘s birthday today. He turns 84 – and a more spritely and comfortable and boyish 84-year-old is hard to imagine. Seems he’s been in the public eye quite a lot recently, (popping up in various places, touring in advance […]
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June 14, 2026
Allen Ginsberg/s 1979 Naropa William Blake class continues and concludes from here. This last section (giving a flavor of Naropa at the time) consists of a few miscellaneous announcements (a proposed visit to Colorado University Library and a (thwarted) fund-raising plan (volleyball?), which Allen’s not interested in, and, of course, an upcoming poetry reading and a […]
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June 12, 2026
(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 to be missed. […]
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June 11, 2026
` “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 band—Barb Morrison, Dito […]
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June 9, 2026
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) and although there’s […]
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June 8, 2026
“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. Student: Everything…. AG: […]
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