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San Francisco, California · San Francisco“The Portrait Gallery Called Existence” – A reading for Neeli Cherkovski, Bird & Beckett, San Francisco July 28th, 2025
A belated note on the recently-published posthumous book out of City Lights, Neeli Cherkovski‘s The Portrait Gallery Called Existence
His Selected Poems 1959-2022 was published last year by Lithic Press
“In his final[…]The post Neeli Cherkovski’s Portrait Gallery appeared first on The Allen Ginsberg Project.Read Article
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Passaic · PassaicDiane Di Prima’s birthday today. Diane di Prima (1934-2020)
See some of our previous postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here
and here – and here
We feature today vintage footage from a reading from the earlier days of the Poetry Center at PCCC (Passaic County Community College) which was recorded[…]The post Diane di Prima at PCCC, 1991 appeared first on The Allen Ginsberg Project.Read Article
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Lowell, Massachusetts · LowellAllen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac‘s influences continues from here – Thomas Wolfe
AG: Well, that “huge unfolding mystery of” – that’s pure Kerouac, and pure Wolfe. So this was his original youth-time inspiration, when he spent days walking around Lowell, (Massachusetts), high school, with Sebastian Sampas, a friend, reading Thomas Wolfe and[…]The post Ginsberg on Kerouac and Thomas Wolfe – 2 appeared first on The Allen Ginsberg Project.Read Article