The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gary Snyder 1983 Naropa Reading - 1

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gary Snyder 1983 Naropa Reading - 1: Gary Snyder 's reading at the Naropa Institute, on the occasion of the 1983 publication of his collection Axe Handles is this week...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 247

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 247: From the audio-visual archives of RTBF, Belgium's public-broadcasting organization for the French-speaking community, t his d...

Allen Ginsberg in Colorado Springs

http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/how-richard-skorman-poor-richards-changed-colorado-springs-history/Content?oid=3444002

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Halloween

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Halloween: Vintage Paul McCartney mask, vintage Allen Ginsberg stoned, Halloween face...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Ginsberg in India

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Ginsberg in India: Jeet Thayil 's radio documentary, Ginsberg in India , currently available here ,   provides the occasion for a brief review o...

Ginsberg's Karma

Video highlights from The Beats in India

Howl

The grimoire entitled the, Goetia, means, howl, which of a word, the poet Allen Ginsberg had used for his 1955 poem of protest, titled: Howl. Ginsberg’s, ‘Howl And Other Poems,’ was published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry, which was dedicated to the writer Carl Solomon at a counterculture time when feminism came to ascendancy. Ginsberg wrote that:

“In publishing ‘Howl,’ I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness in case our military-industrial-nationalist complex solidified into a repressive police bureaucracy.” 

https://faustuscrow.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/succubus-anima-howling/

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Six Gallery Reading Revisited (Rexroth-Snyder-Whal...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Six Gallery Reading Revisited (Rexroth-Snyder-Whal...: [Art deco relief on the exterior of the Berkeley Community Theater, housing the Florence Schwimley Little Theater, venue of the recreati...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Elegy to Allen Ginsberg

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Elegy to Allen Ginsberg: The Ginsberg-Ferlinghetti Letters, "I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career" , published this past summer by City Lights ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake's Cottage

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake's Cottage: Wonderful news!  - the campaign by the William Blake Society to buy back William Blake 's cottage in Felpham for the nation, to keep ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 236

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 236: [Allen Ginsberg in 1994, throwing the opening pitch at a San Francisco Giants game - Photograph by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronic...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Bob Dylan Films Allen Ginsberg

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Bob Dylan Films Allen Ginsberg: Well, guess who it was who was responsible for taking these ecstatic images of A.G, 1967, dancing for joy, in a London hotel-room?  -  B...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: More Writing Precepts/Slogans

The Allen Ginsberg Project: More Writing Precepts/Slogans:                                                           [Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)] Allen continues with the numbered precepts, thirty...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac (1982 Workshop at t...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac (1982 Workshop at t...:             [" Jack Kerouac wandering along East 9th Street after visiting (William) Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Con...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 231

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 231: ""Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead".  "So proclaimed Allen Ginsberg ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Creeley on Kerouac (Doctor Sax)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Creeley on Kerouac (Doctor Sax):                                                                [Robert Creeley (1926-2005)] Last month we featured transcription of...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Burroughs' Proclamation - (Do Easy)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Burroughs' Proclamation - (Do Easy): AG: Another proclamation -  from ( William) Burroughs - this is somewhat a mindfulness proclamation - from   Exterminator!  , page 57. ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation Advice

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation Advice:                          [ Kobun Chino Roshi , sitting  Sesshin  at Naropa, July 1989. photo.c. Allen Ginsberg Estate] August 14 1978, ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg - World Bank Blues

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg - World Bank Blues: The always-contemporary Allen Ginsberg - from 1997  (included in the posthumous collection, Death and Fame ) World Bank Blues I ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake - Auguries of Innocence 2 (Bells Th...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake - Auguries of Innocence 2 (Bells Th...: [“ Each outcry of the hunted hare/A fibre from the Brain does tear"   (William Blake) ] Student: (...In   the  electronic   un...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake's Auguries of Innocence - 1

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Blake's Auguries of Innocence - 1: [William Blake (1757-1827)] AG: So, we were on the… I had read,   “In order to trample on the Great Void/ The iron c...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gay Pride Weekend

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gay Pride Weekend: Celebrating sexuality, coming out, and of course Marriage Equality on an extraordinarily euphoric  Gay Pride Weekend ! "Some s...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku and Desolation Angels

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku and Desolation Angels:                                           [Jack Kerouac - cover of Book of Haikus  (posthumously published in 2003] ..tape begins i...

ASHARAMJI GROUP: KUNDALINI YOGA By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA ( EN...

ASHARAMJI GROUP: KUNDALINI YOGA By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA ( EN...:                                            DOWNLOAD

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico CIty Blues - 6

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico CIty Blues - 6:                                                                                     [Henry Luce]                        ["…An...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico City Blues - 5

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico City Blues - 5: Allen on Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues continues [49 th Chorus] “They got nothing on me/at the university/Them clever poet...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico City Blues - 4

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mexico City Blues - 4:                                                   [ Jack Kerouac in a Merchant Marine cap - c.1944]                              [...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 2

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 2: Continuing from yesterday's listing of "Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten films" . We begin today with the very earliest that...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 1

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Top Ten Films - part 1: Back in the 1980's  (and, indeed, into the 1990's - and beyond?)   Kim's Videos   (on St Marks Place, later...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: "Mind is shapely, Art is shapely"

The Allen Ginsberg Project: "Mind is shapely, Art is shapely": [ The Sleeping Gypsy ( La Bohémienne endormie) (1897) -  by Henri "Douanier" Rousseau - oil on canvas 51" x 79"...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg on the Conan O'Brien tv show

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg on the Conan O'Brien tv show: After the heady interview last week , here's a somewhat lighter one, a  May 1994 appearance on the late night American talk-show &quo...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Proust Questionnaire

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's Proust Questionnaire: The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire named after the one famously responded to by Marcel Proust (he actually took the questi...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 101 - Haiku and Trikaya -...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 101 - Haiku and Trikaya -...: It struck me that the one perfect  haiku  that I wrote in Court the other day (sic), in  Golden Courthouse , [Golden, Colorado] did actua...

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/a-drinkers-guide-to-the-beat-generation.html

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The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 6 (More Haiku)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 6 (More Haiku):                                      [ Shinsui Ito  (1898-1972)  -   wood-block print -  Night Rain at Mii Temple (1917)] AG: So th...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku 5 (Śrāvaka Buddha)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku 5 (Śrāvaka Buddha):       [Hanging scroll of an Indian Buddhist arhat by Japanese painter,   Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)] AG: Then there's the Ś r ā v...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: David Menconi's Allen Ginsberg Interview part 2

The Allen Ginsberg Project: David Menconi's Allen Ginsberg Interview part 2: David Menconi's 1987 Interview with Allen Ginsberg ( featured here last week ) continues:   AG: (So) I was working here at Naropa ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's "Beat" Correspondence with Paul B...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg's "Beat" Correspondence with Paul B...:            [Allen Ginsberg to Paul Bertram (1928-2013) , in 1947, from the Ginsberg-Bertram letters] Readers+Writers Journal , thi...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 4 - (Zhuangzi)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 4 - (Zhuangzi):    [ Hokusai (1760-1849) - Philosopher Watching A Pair of Butterflies  (1814) - plate from picture-book, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden N...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 3 (more from Zenrin-kushu)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 3 (more from Zenrin-kushu):                      ["To have the sun and moon in one sleeve/To hold the universe in the palm of one's hand"] Allen c...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 2 (Zenrin-kushu continues)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 2 (Zenrin-kushu continues):                                               ["..the wave exhibits the spiritual nature of the moon"]    [ Allen continues...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 1 (Spiritual Origins of Haiku)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Haiku - 1 (Spiritual Origins of Haiku): [ Bodhidharma ( Daruma ) - the Indian founder of Zen Buddhism , which he brought to China and subsequently Japan - from the British Museu...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: David Menconi Interview - 1 (Allen Ginsberg in 198...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: David Menconi Interview - 1 (Allen Ginsberg in 198...:             [ Allen Ginsberg with accompanist, Steven Taylor - performing live in Europe, 1986] Allen Ginsberg, in 1987, surveys hi...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday May 8 - Gary Snyder's Birthday

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday May 8 - Gary Snyder's Birthday:     [ Gary Snyder - July 2002 - Photo by John Suiter ] Gary Snyder 's 85th birthday today.   Here 's Gary interviewed by El...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 82 (Philip Whalen and Ab...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 82 (Philip Whalen and Ab...:                                                         [Philip Whalen (1923-2002)] Student: Allen, (I just wanted to read to you) fro...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Kese...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Kese...:                                     [Vintage Ephemera - Poster from the 1982 Naropa Jack Kerouac Conference] Another classic piece of a...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 216

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 216: Hal Willner 's  60th anniversary celebrations in L.A .    for "Howl"   this past week turned out to be ...

Stars Celebrate 60th Anniversary of 'Howl'

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Sunday April 5 - Allen Ginsberg Parinirvana

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Sunday April 5 - Allen Ginsberg Parinirvana: [ Allen Ginsberg performs "Father Death Blues" ] It's Allen Ginsberg's parinirvana today, the (eighteenth) annivers...

http://www.blogcitylights.com/2015/03/30/the-city-lights-books-of-jack-kerouac/

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman - 10)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - (Whitman - 10): [Allen's August 1978 Naropa lecture on Whitman' s " Song of Myself" continues here] Then he ( Walt Wh...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Remembering Jack Kerouac - 2

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Remembering Jack Kerouac - 2: The 1982 memories of ( Jack) Kerouac session at Naropa  continues (For the first part of this panel see yesterday ) Audio of the...

Zen Poetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-to-meditate/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gary-snyder

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-to-meditate/

William S Burroughs Nothing Here Now But the Recordings

http://heathenharvest.org/2015/03/04/william-s-burroughs-nothing-here-now-but-the-recordings/

Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: A conversation with Genesis Breyer ...

Zen and Jazz

http://rootsrockboston.blogspot.kr/2009/08/charlie-parker-jack-kerouac-zen.html

Beatprosidy

An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg [2006] - (FULL MOVIE)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: House Cleaning - (Classroom Announcements & An Ass...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: House Cleaning - (Classroom Announcements & An Ass...: [Classroom announcements at Naropa, July 17, 1978] AG: For those of you who were not able to get the  William Carlos Williams , will y...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 45

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 45: Reginald Ray , on the invitation of Chogyam Trungpa , first full-time faculty member and chair of the Buddhist Studies (later Religious S...

Ad Libbed: Mindfulness & Me: Enjoy The Silence

Ad Libbed: Mindfulness & Me: Enjoy The Silence: Meditative Rose - Dali Friends on facebook and fellow tweeters may have noticed I have been talking about mindfulness for the last few m...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gary Snyder

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Gary Snyder: Gary Snyder , the original Dharma bum and eco-warrior, turns 81 today. Dana Goodyear 's October 2008 profile in The New Yorker affor...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Happy Birthday Gary Snyder

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Happy Birthday Gary Snyder: [Gary Snyder, Prototype of Kerouac's “Dharma Bums” (1957) fictional hero leading the way sauntering by Alpine stream in Northern Cascad...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 44 (Q & A)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 44 (Q & A): [Lama Tsultrim Allione (Tsultrim Kloppenburg )] [and Allen Ginsberg] AG: We were  doing some sitting. I wonder. We haven't talke...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Burroughs' 101 (July 1985 reading at Narop...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: William Burroughs' 101 (July 1985 reading at Narop...: William S Burroughs at 101 - All of the focus on the Centennial last year , but the time has come around again.  February 5 - It'...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 36 (William Wordsworth)

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Meditation and Poetics - 36 (William Wordsworth):   [Tintern Abbey - Gothic Cistercian Abbey Ruins on the River Wye in South Wales - immortalized in William    Wordsworth's poem]  [ ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L - 1

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L - 1: [Allen Ginsberg at Gemini G.E.L artists studio, Los Angeles, July 24, 1996 - Photograph by Sidney B Felsen ] Some weeks back we put up ...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 205

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 205: [Allen Ginsberg in 1959 - Photograph by Joe Rosenthal for the San Francisco Chronicle ] "Baby-faced Allen Ginsberg revealed"...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 205

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 205: [Allen Ginsberg in 1959 - Photograph by Joe Rosenthal for the San Francisco Chronicle ] "Baby-faced Allen Ginsberg revealed"...

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Herbert Huncke Centennial

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Herbert Huncke Centennial: ["Old-timer & survivor, Herbert E Huncke, Beat Literary Pioneer, early decades thief, who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & me...