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4 days ago · The Vancouver Poetry Conference in the summer of 1963—though not a conference in any traditional sense of the word—which brought a gang of poetic luminaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson together for three weeks of readings, lectures, and celebration, has since been dubbed a poetry Woodstock.
1 day ago · Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia. Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( / ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
1 day ago · Get FREE shipping on City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (editor), from wordery.com. ""Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets
1 day ago · Singapore, 5 July 2024 - The sixth edition of the Gardens by the Bay and Mediacorp National Day Concert (NDC) will be one with several firsts.The concert, which will take place on Sunday, 4 August, is the first official ‘live’ performance of the NDP 2024 theme song Not Alone by Benjamin Kheng.
22 hours ago · Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote "Kaddish" 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile.". "Planet News is a great book of poems.
4 days ago · In Poetry’s Church. More than a half century of the Poetry Project. This article appears in the July 2024 issue . The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s ...
4 days ago · 714 likes, 9 comments - allenginsbergofficial on July 2, 2024: "June Leaf in her studio, 7 Bleecker Street, New York City, November 1990. Allen dropped by her studio often, photographing her at work. Leaf passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Truely one of those genuine souls quietly doing their work on their own terms. RIP June. #juneleaf #allenginsberg #robertfrank".
