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May 31, 2018
The birthday today of Walt Whitman (born West Hills, New York, May 31, 1819)
Here’s Allen’s appreciation of Whitman that first appeared in Sulfur 31, Fall 1992 (and was subsequently reprinted in Deliberate Prose (2000))
Whitman’s Influence –[…]
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Tag: Walt Whitman
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May 25, 2018
A nice little hat-tipping to Allen from Danny Goldberg, in an interview with Rob Couteau. in Rain Taxi, regarding his new book, In Search of the Lost Chord – 1967 and the Hippie Idea
“My favorite poem by Allen is “Wichita Vortex[…]
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May 12, 2018
From Allen’s 1980 Basic Poetics lecture at Naropa
AG: “My ambition was to write a sort of Promethean twentieth-century poem, using all of the ancient meters that build up to some kind of grand chorale. And there’s a little sample of that in Journals Early Fifties, Early Sixties, a little thing called[…]
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May 11, 2018
Bill Morgan, archivist, editor, and Allen’s biographer, is interviewed by host Charlie Rossiter on the latest episode of the podcast Poetry Spoken Here. He gets to speak of his most recent book, The[…]
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February 24, 2018
Vojo Sindolic‘s 1986 interview with Allen in Belgrade (in two parts – the second part will follow tomorrow) is our focus on The Allen Ginsberg Project this weekend.
Vojo’s translation of Cosmopolitan Greetings (Kozmopolitski pozdravi ) has just appeared from Hrvatskoga društva pisaca (h,d,p) (the Croatian Writers[…]
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December 21, 2017
AG: But by this anaphoric rapture, or anaphoric repetition, it {Crashaw’s poem “The Flaming Heart”] actually builds up to rapture. So this is what Anne Waldman calls “a list poem”, actually, an early list poem. I taught a little poetry workshop this weekend and checked out list poems and the samples I[…]
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November 3, 2017
Our good friend John Suiter’s photo-essay on Jack Kerouac’s Lowell is a must-read. He recently complimented it with this equally-inspiring photo-essay on Jack Kerouac’s Mexico.
Speaking of Kerouac, MA*GA in Gallarate, Italy, presents Kerouac Beat Painting, a show of over eighty original paintings and drawings, running December 3 April 22, more details […]
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