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Gripster: Documentary Films, Dolphins & Pirates
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, Greek American photographer and film director Louie Psihoyos is the son of an immigrant from the Peloponnesus. The Peloponnesus incidentally is where my immigrant...
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On the Road with Bob Holman
As promised, here’s some more on the endangered languages documentary, called On the Road with Bob Holman: What happens when a downtown New York poet of the hip hop and slam persuasion discovers that...
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The Beat Hotel
A couple of years ago, I was ravaging the shelves at the New York Public Library, when I came across Barry Miles’ The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963. It was around...
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Happy 86th Birthday, Allen Ginsberg!
“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” ~Allen Ginsberg...
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Road Trip Writing: On the Road and “Human Snowball”
Many summers ago, a couple of poets and I dragged some rickety chairs outside of the Bowery Poetry Club and sat in a circle, chatting about our writing, our day jobs, and life, as people passed by,...
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Review: Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
I caught the documentary Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009) at Anthology Film Archives this past weekend. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of my favorite poets, for his use of language and whimsy....
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“The War Is Over! John Lennon Lost!”: Did the FBI Kill John Lennon?
Yesterday I wrote about Allen Ginsberg’s connection to Timothy Leary and the CIA. I’ve already told you before that the Beat Generation influenced The Beatles, and today I’m here to tell you John...
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5 Quotes about Jack Kerouac’s Influence on Bob Dylan
So you may have heard that Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize. For Literature. At first, no one could get ahold of him. Then, when they did, he rejected it. The initial news, though, set the literary...
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