poetry

Allen’s Grave

Visiting Ginsberg’s grave it began to rain  a refreshing drizzle that was walkable  until we made the truck below  by…

2 years ago

Review: How a Civilization Begins

Richard VargasMouthfeel Press$16.00Reviewed by Marc Olmsted In Margaret Randall’s foreword to How a Civilization Begins, she writes that Richard Vargas’…

3 years ago

Allen Ginsberg’s Lifelong Commitment to Political Poetry and to Progressive Activist Causes

Editor’s note: This essay, written by Eliot Katz, author of The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg, is a response…

3 years ago

On the Road: Ginsberg in Siem Reap & Other Beat Tales

The following is a transcript from a speech I gave recently at the Angkor International Festival of the Arts in…

4 years ago

Virgules / After Cézanne

In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with Cézanne’s juxtaposition of color: “I suddenly…

6 years ago

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting the pastoral with a landscape of urban…

6 years ago

A Lady’s Choice: A reflection on Diane di Prima’s “Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion”

Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet…

7 years ago

Mechanics And Poetics: William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg

William Carlos Williams played an important part in making “Howl” a well-known poem, especially in terms of communication. Indeed, William…

8 years ago

Allen Ginsberg’s First Trip to Africa

On 12th September, 1947, Allen Ginsberg shipped out as a utility man on a collier, the S.S. John Blair, for…

9 years ago

Baraka, Transitions: The man and the poetry

Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat, airless, into our…

9 years ago

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