Student Poems Examined – 1
Allen Ginsberg’ s April 1 1981 Naropa class continues from here AG: Okay, texts. What have we got? I’ve been talking enough. Student: I have a poem that I worked on.. AG: Did you say we xeroxed...
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Devil’s Head Mountain, Colorado Allen Ginsberg 1981 Naropa class continues from here Allen finds he has a little time at the end of the class – and so he dedicates it to an examination of a student...
View ArticleSo Who Was Esther Walls?
Esther Walls, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, Iowa c.1968 – photo – Bill Anderson via University of Iowa Libraries, Women’s Archives An attentive alert Esther Walls is seen here in the above...
View ArticleJerome Rothenberg Introduces Allen Ginsberg San Diego, 1985
Jerome Rothenberg and Allen Ginsberg at The Poetry Project Symposium, New York, 1977 – photo by Vivien Selbo More treasures from the Stanford archives. Jerome Rothenberg introduces Allen Ginsberg (on...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg/Ruth Seymour – 1982 KCRW Interview – 2
Ruth Seymour‘s 1982 KCRW interview with Allen Ginsberg continues from here AG: Pound was more remote but certainly was wide open to the hip new elements of the late ‘40’s and early ‘50s when he was...
View ArticleAnselm Hollo (Naropa Memorial Reading)
Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) Last week we featured a recording from the Naropa Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics – a Gertrude Stein reading. Today, we feature another – a memorial reading in...
View ArticleFriday’s Weekly Round-Up – 431
A wonderful portfolio of photos (connected to Allen’s current photography show at the Fahey-Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, Muses and Self, appeared this past week in The Guardian. Don’t miss it! Patti...
View ArticleGregory Bateson – 2
Gregory Bateson, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, Summer, 1975 – Photo by Jeff Bloom Gregory Bateson – at Naropa – continuing from yesterday’s posting On August 12, 1975, Gregory Bateson was...
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John Perks and Gregory Bateson, Naropa Institute. 1975 – photo by Jeff Bloom Gregory Bateson, 1975, at Naropa, in conversation with Duncan Campbell (“Open Secret”) continues from here. – (full...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg on Dharma Poetics – 18
Allen Ginsberg with (portrait of) Walt Whitman – Photograph by Misao Mizuno Allen Ginsberg’s lecture on Dharma Poetics continues from here AG: We have also Herrick on Ben Jonson, his direct teacher. We...
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