Frank O’Hara’s gravestone, Green River Cemetery, in Springs, New York Alfred Leslie – The Telephone Call – (1971-2), oil on canvas, 96 x 120 ins. courtesy the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri It’s the anniversary of the death today of the great American “New York School” poet, Frank O’Hara photo: Harry Redl, […]| The Allen Ginsberg Project
Michael Horovitz and Allen Ginsberg at the International Poetry Incarnation at The Royal Albert Hall in London, 1965 – photograph by/via Peter Whitehead Michael Horovitz remembered by John Hegley and Adam Horovitz on BBC Radio 4’s Last Word, July 2021, presented by Matthew Bannister, & celebrating Allen Ginsberg (with additional commentary by Barry Miles) on […]| The Allen Ginsberg Project
Allen Ginsberg on William Blake’s The Book of Ahania continues from here (from Chapter 4, part 4) AG: “They reptilize upon the Earth.” – Okay, whence comes this notion of the reptilian meats, reptilian orgasm? He is saying that’s Urizen‘s version of having a body separated from feeling. Separating from some emotional truths – Ahania. […]| The Allen Ginsberg Project
Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) We’ll begin the serialization/transcription today of a really early Naropa lecture of Allen’s, (dating from June of 1976) – his 1976 “Visiting Poetics” lecture. The lecture is a significant one, he gets to speak at length on and describe his legendary youthful visionary experience, his Blake vision The original transcriber of […]| The Allen Ginsberg Project