Transcript: Allen Ginsberg on Bob Dylan, Ezra Pound, and the American Voice June 29, 2012: It may come as no surprise that Ginsberg the scholar was just as lively as Ginsberg the poet. For the past few days, The Allen Ginsberg Project blog has been posting segments of an argument between Ginsberg and a student. The student states his frustration with Ezra Pound, reciting some Bob Dylan lyrics to support his point. Ginsberg replies, [...] by Harriet Staff

Look at Ginsberg’s Copy of The Waste Land June 15, 2012: Here's a cool image of Allen Ginsberg's copy of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land over at The Academy of American Poets tumblr page. by Harriet Staff

Stan Persky Reviews Eminent Outlaws at LARB May 17, 2012: Stan Persky reviews Christopher Bram's Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Persky begins the review by focusing on Bram's "bold declaration that 'the gay revolution began as a literary revolution,'": A revolution sparked by mere words? After all, as gay poet W.H. Auden put it, "Poetry [...] by Harriet Staff

Allen’s World, via Bob Rosenthal May 3, 2012: Yep, more Ginsberg for you. Here's the second installment of "Allen Ginsberg, Revisited by His Right-Hand Man" from The Local. Here we are treated to remembrances from Ginsberg's life through his secretary of twenty years, Bob Rosenthal, who recently completed the memoir Straight Around Allen. A taste: It was a crazy household. Peter [...] by Harriet Staff

Burroughs and Ginsberg at the sweat lodge May 3, 2012: Jacket Copy has tipped us off to this long interview at Sensitive Skin (art, literature and music by and for neer-do-wells, black sheep, blackguards, scoundrels, scalliwags and wastrels) with William S. Burroughs, conducted by fellow neer-do-well Allen Ginsberg. David L. Ulin gives us a little background on the interview: Burroughs, who [...] by Harriet Staff

Happy Birthday, Allen Ginsberg! June 3, 2011: In honor of Allen Ginsberg's birthday today, we'd like to point you to a new project from poet CAConrad, who has created several "short video docu-ramas" under his larger Jupiter 88 video journal (which now includes 48 separate entries of poets reading). This time, for June's HOWL Festival in New York, Conrad got heaps more to sit in front of [...] by Harriet Staff

Bob Dylan at 70! May 19, 2011: If he makes it through the Rapture, Bob Dylan will be turning 70 on Tuesday, and the The New York Times is celebrating with a little diddy bout how Film Forum in New York will be showing the documentaries Don't Look Back and The Other Side of The Mirror (which follows Dylan and Joan Baez through the Newport Folk Festival) for the occasion. For [...] by Harriet Staff

Questions for Poetry I April 2, 2011: In the 22nd century, what will the line look like and do?  Will the line continue to have its traditional roots ("traditional" not meaning middle road but rather a haunting presence of what the line has been in the past centuries however shaky and nonsequential)?  Will the line of Williams (short, aware of its breath both at beginning and end) [...] by Gillian Conoley

Kenneth Rexroth has a posse February 9, 2011: SNAC: The Social Network and Archival Context Project has launched a prototype of what it described as "Facebook for dead people" at the Code4Lib Conference on Tuesday. Using existing data from institutions like The Library of Congress and OCLC, the system provides an array of related links and information on each subject, publications to which [...] by Harriet Staff

Does poetry need its own Glee? January 13, 2011: On The Moderate Voice, Michael Silverstein proposes an unusual solution to restoring the place of poetry in civic discourse. The problem isn't with poetry itself, rather the medium for delivering it to the masses. Silverstein has had it with the Op Ed pages of newspapers which are now as overrun with "spin doctoring" and "hype" as any other [...] by Harriet Staff