Mantra Archives - The Allen Ginsberg Project

Ginsberg 1968 Berkeley interview (observations on American racism)

S P — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:16:57 +0000

A little historical snippet today – “Allen Ginsberg and his harmonium, Berkeley, California, 1968” (courtesy the Center for Sacramento History)
AG: What I’m saying is they ought to arm the police with harmoniums like this, [shows instrument] and teach them the Hare Krishna mantra [Allen begins chanting – “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,[…]

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Friday’s Weekly Round-Up -718

S P — Fri, 16 May 2025 01:00:27 +0000

<An item emerges from the archives – from 1972, “Allen Ginsberg Teaches Walter Cronkite To Mediate on Live TV”. The footage is from The Democratic National Convention in Miami, and the clip you see here combines two different video sources – the recent documentary, One to One – John & Yoko and[…]

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Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 704

S P — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:33:39 +0000

More trail-blazing research from David S Wills on Allen on the Beatdom Substack.
This most recent contribution “Allen Ginsberg and the 1955 San Francisco Arts Festival”. is
an early excerpt from his currently-in-the-works book about the legendary Gallery 6 reading
Willis provides an in-depth analysis of “an important claim that potentially[…]

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Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs – 4

S P — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:19:29 +0000

Studs Terkel (1912-2008)
Studs Terkel, in a 1975 interview with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, continues from here (and concludes today). See previous sections here, here and here
For the full interview – see here
ST: So we’re talking about demons, aren’t we? And, and a way exorcising demons in the writing,[…]

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Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs – 2

S P — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:00:38 +0000

Studs Terkel (1912-2008)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

William S Burroughs (1914-1997)
Studs Terkel‘s 1975, interview with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs continues from here
ST: Since Allen has brought up the subject of mantras and the harmonium, that’s an early British, and later American, instrument – the idea of many cultures are involved.[…]

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Studs Terkel Interviews Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs – 1

S P — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:10:03 +0000

Studs Terkel (1912-2008)
The great Studs Terkel, we’ve featured in the past on the Allen Ginsberg Project a number of his interviews, most famously here – and here , here, here, here, here and here
and some decades later – here and here
and (with Allen and Philip Glass) – here and[…]

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Allen Ginsberg WNET Outtakes – 2

S P — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:19:10 +0000

Footage of Allen begins, December 1965, with him traveling in his VW bus in San Francisco, (sorting through letters –he reaches for pen and paper – overheard conversation) – I’ll take that out.. This’ll do.. It came in this morning… It’s from a.. It’s from somebody round here in San Francisco. I’ll[…]

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Allen Ginsberg on The Dick Cavett Show 1972

S P — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:17:07 +0000

Allen Ginsberg and Dick Cavett
Allen’s appearance in 1972 (at the height of the Vietnam War) on the Dick Cavett show. alongside dramatist-screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky and, most notably, an ebullient and sincere Christopher Isherwood, ranks as one of his more memorable tv appearances (tho’ to be frank, they were almost always memorable).[…]

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Jacqueline Gens

S P — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:48:11 +0000

Jacqueline Gens with Allen Ginsberg – photo by Gordon Ball
Jacqueline Gens, who passed away peacefully this past Tuesday, was the longtime co-director and co-founder (with Chard di Niord) of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College and for many years, worked at the Naropa Institute (now University) in Boulder,[…]

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William Blake 1979 Naropa Lectures continue – 2

S P — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 02:27:45 +0000

Allen’s March 1979 Naropa class on William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience continues from here
AG: The “Pretty Rose Tree” is next, for singing – We were singing along in the house. We might as well do that.
I was interpreting “A flower was offerd to me/Such a flower as May/never[…]

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