Today’s Oscar Wilde‘s birthday – celebrating the birthday of a great gay icon.
Here’s Patti Smith. reading from Wilde’s De Profundis in Reading Gaol in October last year
See also our last year’s birthday posting on Wilde on The Allen Ginsberg Project – here… Read More
[Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”)]
Allen (from a letter to the author (M.G.Roy) and the editors of the “Beat Generation” Monarch Notes, December 5, 1966 (“Dear Messrs Roy, Cooperman, Leavitt and Violi..”))
“…Accusations of “phony” madness against Oscar Wilde, whom I find an immensely sympathetic figure of letters, run through the book, as if it were important to the subject at hand. It isn’t.”
born October 16, 1854, in Dublin, Ireland. Today – and a day … Read More
Edson cemetry, Lowell, Mass. The exact location. Bob Dylan and Allen visiting Jack Kerouac’s grave. We’ve featured Bob Egan‘s conceptual recreations – Popspots – before – here. Here’s his re-staging of two of Ken Regan’s iconic photos.
Here’s another of his Popspots ( “Pot Is A Reality Kick” – Benedict J Fernandez‘s much-circulated image of Allen at the LEMAR (Committee To Legalize Marijuana) protest, Christopher Street at 6th Avenue, New York City, January, 1965
Patti Smith reading Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol ? Reading Gaol (HM Prison, Reading) … Read More
