Dissolution (1980 Naropa class improvisation) – part 2
Dissolution (1980 Naropa class improvisation) – part two Allen Ginsberg’s 1980 Naropa class improvisation continues from here Student: All the garbage cans hidden behind the (forest) in.. AG: in what...
View ArticleNaropa Summer Writing Program 2023
Image from the catalog of the 2023 Naropa University Summer Writing Program – (June 11–July 1, 2023) – “(eco) mourning / memory / ritual” – (“Cri de Coeur / cry of the heart”) – “The unaltered...
View ArticleWriting Flow
Allen Ginsberg’s 1981 Naropa class continues from here. Allen quizzes his students. AG: Does anybody ever sit and write for more than three hours at a time, continuously? Student: Yes. AG: You do....
View ArticleStudent 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...
View ArticleStudent Poems Examined – 2
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...
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