Bill Morgan Archives - The Allen Ginsberg Project https://allenginsberg.org/tag/bill-morgan/ AllenGinsberg.org Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:20:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 119182016 Michael Schumacher on Allen Ginsberg https://allenginsberg.org/2025/04/a-16/ https://allenginsberg.org/2025/04/a-16/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:19:44 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=109386 A couple of months ago, we profiled Allen’s biographer, Barry Miles. Today we profile another of Allen’s biographers and a dedicated and prolific editor of his work, Michael Schumacher.
Michael’s biography of Allen, Dharma Lion came out in 1992 (with a revised edition in 2016). He also (with Allen’s blessing) published  Family[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2025/04/a-16/feed/ 0 109386 More Ginsberg-Koch https://allenginsberg.org/2025/02/w-f-26-2/ https://allenginsberg.org/2025/02/w-f-26-2/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:20:49 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=107769 Kenneth Koch, St Marks Church, New York City, May 9,1995 – photo by Allen Ginsberg (c) Estate of Allen Ginsberg
Kenneth Koch Centennial tomorrow (looks like a Kenneth Koch week all this week!). We continue with two poems – Allen, influenced-by-Koch.  The first, an early homage to the New York School,  included[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2025/02/w-f-26-2/feed/ 0 107769 Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) (Jonas on Allen) https://allenginsberg.org/2025/01/t-j-23-5/ https://allenginsberg.org/2025/01/t-j-23-5/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:52:29 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=106641 Jonas Mekas died January 23, 2019, Allen Ginsberg died April 5, 1997.  There are two great Allen Ginsberg obituary documentaries, Colin Still‘s “No More To Say And Nothing to Weep For”  and Jonas Mekas’  “Scenes From Allen’s Last Three Days On Earth”
and Jonas is seen here (see above), courtesy Jennifer Elster,[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2025/01/t-j-23-5/feed/ 0 106641 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 688 https://allenginsberg.org/2024/10/f-o-18-688/ https://allenginsberg.org/2024/10/f-o-18-688/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:00:32 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=104776 “The Six Gallery” -Photographer unknown
Our friend David S Wills over at Beatdom continues his run of in-depth essays, the most recent, “The 6 Gallery – Unravelling the Myths”, an early reveal of his research for an upcoming book on the fabled 6 Gallery and the 6 Gallery reading.
Wills writes:”What is[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2024/10/f-o-18-688/feed/ 0 104776 David Gascoyne https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-25-david-gascoyne/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-25-david-gascoyne/#respond Sat, 25 Nov 2023 08:01:56 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=95502 Today marks the anniversary of the death (in 2001) of the pre-eminent English Surrealist poet, David Gascoyne. In 1986 Gascoyne contributed to Bill Morgan‘s 60th Birthday festschrift for Allen, Best Minds. The text was subsequently reprinted posthumously, in 2016, by Gascoyne’s English publishers, Enitharmon, as Anniversary Epistle to Allen Ginsberg.
Here follows[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-25-david-gascoyne/feed/ 0 95502 A G Class Poem Folio https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/t-n-16/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/t-n-16/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:05:35 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=95074 Back in 2016 we reported on a curious story – the discovery of (a signed edition of) Allen’s 1943 Eastside High School graduation year book, and along with it a copy of his “Class Poem” – “We leave the youthful pennants and the books/Discard there little compasses and rules…”
In commemoration of[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/t-n-16/feed/ 0 95074 Edith Parker Kerouac https://allenginsberg.org/2023/10/s-o29-edith-parker-kerouac/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/10/s-o29-edith-parker-kerouac/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:49:01 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=94806 Edie Parker Kerouac,  Detroit, Michigan, November 1986 Photo by James E. Perrizo, courtesy Ginsberg Collection / Stanford University)
 
Edie Kerouac Parker (1922-1993), Jack Kerouac’s first wife and a strangely occluded Beat figure, died on this day, thirty years ago. We remember and salute Edie Kerouac Parker
Edie was there from the[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2023/10/s-o29-edith-parker-kerouac/feed/ 5 94806 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 615 https://allenginsberg.org/2023/05/f-m-11/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/05/f-m-11/#comments Fri, 12 May 2023 01:01:29 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=90572 The new issue of Beatdom (Beatdom #23 – the Environmental issue) will be out later this month.
We’ve already mentioned Jonas Faust (on four of Allen’s ‘”pastoral poems”) and Alexandre Ferrere‘s “Derridian Exploration” into Allen’s Archive(s)” . But there’s more, plenty more – articles on Ferlinghetti, Corso, Kerouac, Bob Kaufman – Gerald[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2023/05/f-m-11/feed/ 1 90572 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 613 https://allenginsberg.org/2023/04/f-a-28-fridays-weekly-round-up/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/04/f-a-28-fridays-weekly-round-up/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 01:12:03 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=90424 Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013), New York City, 1993 – photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate
Today marks the Carolyn Cassady Centennial
Previous postings on Carolyn Cassady on The Allen Ginsberg Project – see  here and here

 
See also Malin Korkeasalo and Maria Ramström’s 2011 documentary, Love Always,[…]

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]]> https://allenginsberg.org/2023/04/f-a-28-fridays-weekly-round-up/feed/ 0 90424 Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 612 https://allenginsberg.org/2023/04/f-a-21-fridays-weekly-round-up-612/ https://allenginsberg.org/2023/04/f-a-21-fridays-weekly-round-up-612/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:58:49 +0000 https://allenginsberg.org/?p=90127 Earth Day tomorrow
The recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations paints a bleak picture.
Here’s a digest from the New York Times
and here’s from The Guardian 
 
Beat scholar, Franca Bellarsi – “Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg’s Environmental Consciousness”[…]

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