A Blue Hand: The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Lost Muse, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride in India
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(Photo used by permission, all rights reserved, © Fiona Templeton) Annette Barbasch & Steve Buscemi in Fiona Templeton’s Against Agreement , 1982 Fiona Templeton & Poets Theater § Hail, poetry! § Tan Lin Chalk Playground & LitTwitChalk A review by Thom Donovan § Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Alexei Parshchikov § Talking with Rosmarie Waldrop Waldrop, reading...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio Mishima, Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh... and Vladimir Nabokov?...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Any truth in the charges of pretentiousness still being levelled at him stopped applying nearly a decade ago It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the Literarian Award by the National Book Foundation for "outstanding service to the American literary community". It's the third major prize Eggers has won in as many years....
Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
For film buffs and lovers of Beat Culture, this release of legendary American independent filmmaker, Alfred Leslie’s work is long overdue. I was first switched on to Leslie’s work, through the Kerouac narrated, Pull My Daisy, which features Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky. Pull My Daisy is a ramshackled retelling of an incident [...]
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Gerald Stern at the Lambertville Public Library this Sunday 11/15 Gerald Stern at the Lambertville Public Library tomorrow, Sunday November 15th, 3 – 5 pm. Reading from his recently released book: "What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life". – a series of separate essays, almost a memoir. There is an essay about Stern's friendship with Allen Ginsberg, one on Andy Warhol, one...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
THE POETRY CENTER AT PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE presents the winners of THE 2009 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS Award Winners’ Reading held on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church Street, Paterson, New Jersey Click here for complete list of winners
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A postcard with the public domain "me worry?" face that later inspired Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman. From Wikimedia. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_E._Neumann.jpg I finished reading Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition last night. It was Bukowski's usual mix of women, sex, drinking, bars, and the race track. There were some more reflective poems as well about writing...
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Will Alexander | “Exobiology as Goddess” from Exobiology as Goddess | Manifest Press | 2005 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | “The New Boys” | Brooklyn Rail | October 2008 Stacy Szymaszek | Hyperglossia | Litmus Press | 2009 Allen Ginsberg | “Television Was That Baby Crawling Toward The Death Chamber” from Planet News: poems 1961-1967 | City Lights Douglas Oliver | [...]
Plucked From Ogygia (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
My son will be spending the whole week in Cleveland and I have committed myself to doing some major catch up while he's away. There are many things to do; Get issue 03 of Weave finalized and sent out to the printer (!!!) Work on my 4 drafted poems Write up an evaluation for one of my interns (this really should be the first thing listed) Do some housework. The husband would be so pleased. Read! I have...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Kerouac's demons chased him to Big Sur, as new documentary shows When "On the Road" author Jack Kerouac died in 1969, his 4-year-old nephew, Jim Sampas, marked the occasion by sketching a portrait of Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac's fabled colleague was among many...
escapegrace (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Jeanette Winterson writes in praise of the crack-up . The stories are well known; Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear and went mad. Sylvia Plath gassed herself. Anne Sexton committed suicide. Emily Dickinson was manic-depressive. Virginia Woolf worked through alternating bouts of madness and depression for most of her life. The mad, bad and dangerous wild boys of high art and popular culture make great...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
LONDON.- In 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the United States and Mexico, which he began with Neil Cassady in the late 1940s. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation, a new group of writers,...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Anthony Buccino has published his third poetry collection AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty . Working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey. From the center of the Baby Boom, his working class verse views life and growing up in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and growing older in the 1980s, 1990s and the oughts. Buccino will read from this and his other collections at the River Read Reading Series...
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
When Joe Hartnett said that the Dodge Foundation was "reimagining" the Dodge Poetry Festival and considering something completely different from the Waterloo Village model, he was on to something. Except, the Dodge folks took that reimagining a step further. In a move some might call poetic justice, the city of Newark, home to famous poets and native sons Allen Ginsberg, David Shapiro, and...
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