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November 16, 2018
Don’t Hide The Madness – read David S Wills’ “Angry Young Men Become Nice Old Men’, his review of the Ginsberg-Burroughs book on Beatdom – here
Allen Ginsberg photographer, the UK-based Far Out magazine. features[…]
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Tag: Jack Kerouac
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November 12, 2018
Allen Ginsberg continues on the influence of Blake’s “The French Revolution” on his poetry
AG: Another version, a couple of years later, directly inspired by the (William Blake’s) “French Revolution”, is the first poem[…]
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November 9, 2018
November 9th – Robert Frank‘s birthday, his 94th birthday
We draw your attention to previous Robert Frank birthday postings here on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, here and here
Don’t Hide The Madness – the William[…]
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October 26, 2018
Andy Clausen‘s Beat – A First-Hand Account of The Latter Days of The Beat Generation, long-awaited, finally appears from Autonomedia – Beat is, according to its jacket-blurb, “an unfiltered chronicle of the wild escapades of those who made the living poetry that expressed the atomic age and beyond….Clausen’s eyewitness memoirs, stories, anecdotes[…]
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October 19, 2018
Andy Warhol’s photo archive (consisting of 3,600 contact sheets and 130,000 images -“the most complete collection of the artist’s black-and-white photography ever made available to the public”) was[…]
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October 12, 2018
A little anniversary slipped by last Sunday – October 7th – the legendary first (public) reading of “Howl”[…]
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October 5, 2018
The annual Jack Kerouac festival in Lowell, his home town (Lowell Celebrates Kerouac) began yesterday and continues through Monday. This year, LCK is observing the thirtieth anniversary of the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative and the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of The Dharma Bums. Among the highlights, David Amram (of[…]
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September 28, 2018
Next week in Vienna. The annual conference of the European Beat Studies Network, starting on Wednesday and concluding Saturday October 6th
The program includes – on Friday: Franca Bellarsi – “Allen Ginsberg’s Ecopoetics: Oscillating between Sentience-in-Interdependence and Physically-Determined Embodiment” – on Saturday (on the “Transnational Beat” segment) – Antonín Zita – “Dismantling[…]
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September 21, 2018
Leonard Cohen‘s birthday today. He would have been 84. We start the Weekly Round-Up today with a beautiful woodcut of him and Allen by George A Walker
and this note from Cohencentric – Leonard Cohen Considered – “Leonard Cohen Meets Jack Kerouac at Allen Ginsberg’s Home”
Our 2014 posting on Cohen (well[…]
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September 14, 2018
“…rubber booted in soft grass, mind moveless, /breath trembles in white daisies by the roadside, Heaven breath and my own symmetric/ Airs wavering thru antlered green fern
drawn in my navel,/ same breath as breathes thru Capel-Y-Ffin..” (from “Wales Visitation”)
Eco-watch[…]
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