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The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of The Beats As Taught by Allen Ginsberg is just out (this past Tuesday) from Penguin Books in England. Next Friday, Grove Press will publish the...
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Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s birth tomorrow. Anne Waldman and guests will be celebrating it at the Fox Theatre in Boulder Meanwhile in NYC (from 3-9) at the Howl Happening Gallery (also celebrating...
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“Driving The Beat Road” – Jeff Weiss‘ recent detailed (and profusely illustrated ) survey, in The Washington Post, “in search of surviving members of the Beat Generation“, is another (well, we keep...
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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, a stunning new show opened this past week at the Block Museum at Northwestern (Evanston, Illinois). Above is a reproduction of the catalog cover. The exhibition,...
View Article60th Anniversary of the Howl Verdict
Today is an historic day. The 60th anniversary of the landmark Free Speech verdict. On this day in 1957, Judge Clayton Horn declared that “Howl” was not obscene. As he announced: “I do not believe...
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[The Boott Mills seen from Centralville / Lowell, Massachusetts, 1989 -Photograph © John Suiter – see “Kerouac’s Lowell – A Life On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers“] Just a reminder that it’s...
View ArticleDavid Amram’s Birthday
[David Amram performing “Waltz After the Fall” via jackshalom] David Amram celebrates his 87th birthday today Recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from Kansas City’s Folk Alliance...
View ArticlePhilomene Long’s The Beats – An Exisitential Comedy
We continue our spotlighting of video now available via the digitalization of Allen’s Stanford University archives. Today – Philomene Long & (Jay D Kugelman)’s LA-based documentary from 1980, The...
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Cartoon Comix Allen. We’ve featured this manifestation several times before, notably in the thoughtful and lively work of Nathan Gelgud. and, back in the 70’s, not forgetting Pat Ryan and Allen’s...
View ArticleUSA Poetry – Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti, 1965
We’ve been featuring, these last few months, video from the Stanford University Archives (a number of intriguing videos of Allen reside there, though curiously, not this one – Allen and Lawrence...
View ArticleLawrence Ferlinghetti 1965 on WNET
continuing from yesterday’s feature Lawrence Ferlinghetti is profiled as the companion poet to Allen in Richard O Moore‘s “USA Poetry” series Introduction: “Allen Ginsberg was once called “the...
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Reposting and restating last week’s big news – “Howl’, a newly-assembled red vinyl box-set will be available soon – next month – from Craft Recordings. February 23 is slated as the release-date....
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[Allen Ginsberg in his kitchen, 1988 – Photograph by Brian Graham] The Toronto photo show, “Fleeting Moments, Floating Worlds..,“ that we mentioned last week continues. What we omitted to mention was...
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[Allen Ginsberg, Venice, Italy, 1995, Enzo Eric Toccaceli, “Beat Generation, Travels in Italy” exhibition, Rome] “Beat Generation, Ginsberg Corso, Ferlinghetti Viaggio in Italia”, (Beat Generation,...
View ArticleDoctor Sax and the Great World Snake
Doctor Sax and The Great World Snake – In honor of Jack Kerouac’s 96th birthday (coming up on Monday) – we present Jim Sampas‘ version of his uncle’s original screenplay, featuring the voices of...
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[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco, 1991 – Photograph by Allen Ginsberg] Tomorrow is Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s 99th birthday. There’ll be more about that tomorrow. Meanwhile, for today… Lawrence...
View ArticleLawrence Ferlinghetti’s 99th Birthday
[Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fiji, 1973. Photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries] Lawrence Ferlinghetti is ninety-nine years old today! – We’re happy to present this personal...
View ArticleMore Vintage Ginsberg Footage/Ferlinghetti – Assassination Raga
More vintage footage of Allen here (and also, more prominently, of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and of the San Francisco Mime Troup Gorilla Band, courtesy the Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operario e...
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“The Lost Ferlinghetti Tapes” is a mini-documentary by Paul Iorio that presents audio excerpts from an exclusive interview he conducted with Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2000 — inter-spliced with...
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The Beat Scene – Photographs by Burt Glenn – edited by Tony Nourmand and Michael Shulman (with an essay by Jack Kerouac), a dazzling portfolio of images shot between 1957 and 1960, both in New York...
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