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December 7, 2018
Mary Paniccia Carden‘s Women Writers of the Beat Era – Autobiography and Intertextuality, (part of the University of Virginia Press’s “Cultural Frames, Framing Cuture” series, published back in April), somehow passed us by. We’re happy to get a reminder about this important and provocative book from David S Wills – Read his[…]
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Tag: Michael McClure
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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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April 15, 2018
We continue with the transcription of Allen’s appearance on Barry Farber’s 1976 radio broadcast.
In this episode, a punk Jonathan Robbins appears to the consternation of Barry Farber, and Allen discusses, among other things, ecology (eco-consciousness) and the apparent difficulty (alleged impossibility) of translation.
BF: (The Beat Generation) ….was every[…]
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April 6, 2018
National Poetry Month in America this month. “April is the cruellest..” and all that. We’re very much of the opinion of noted[…]
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March 19, 2018
Allen Ginsberg’s 1980 Basic Poetics class (at Naropa) – continuing from here
AG: So, the next experiment I did (was) with Miltonics – Milton. This is my Miltonics. It was pretty sick Miltonics. Because what it is, is a total[…]
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October 22, 2017
Michael McClure. Continuing the transcription from yesterday
Interviewer: Can you talk a little about “Meat Science” ?
MM No, that’s so long ago, David. No. Do you mean the book of essays?
Interviewer:[…]
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October 21, 2017
Michael McClure celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday. In his honor, here follows another transcript from the extraordinary series of readings/discussions that took place in Novato California, in the mid 70’s (see here ,[…]
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October 20, 2017
It’s Michael McClure’s birthday. The legendary Beat poet turns, astonishingly, 85 today. Happy Birthday, Michael!
Some of our previous McClure postings here, here and here. Michael on Bob Dylan here. Reading with Allen in 1976[…]
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