Gary Snyder speaks, poet via video link
+ Poetic Convo & Reading w/ hero Gary Snyder + Legendary poet and naturalist and my personal hero, Gary Snyder […]
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Writing Life
My Dharma riff in Ginsberg newsletter
Quick hit to say: The Allen Ginsberg weekly newsletter of goodness included a gracious name check and link to my
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Writing Life
Dharma Bums on auction (*only* a significant spark which arc’d the transpacific poetry renaissance)
Dharma Bums Typescript at Sottebys auction as part of “Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker” Any
Guest + Greetings Pods
“Early Sht” writer riffs with J. Emde, MFA on WRTES pod
Have i encouraged you to listen to be recap my glory days from 1979-1989ish in “Writers Read Their Early Sh*t
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October, we’re home (again)
Preamble from Oct. 31: My sweet goodness, what a topsy-turvy buncha days out in the world. So much sadness, so
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Libraries / Museums / Archives
“Kerouac in Kobe” in Allen Ginsberg project round-up & Beat Museum + poets of note
Allen’s Estate & Archive So happy to be included in this fantastic Allen Ginsberg Project news round-up with my Kerouac
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“Kerouac in Kobe” – *On the Road scroll* in Japan / video interview + exhibit
A rollicking mixed-media revue of a groundbreaking exhibit in Japan featuring a stunningly-reproduced facsimile of the taped-together sc/roll manuscript of
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Curiously Punctuated (and Ready) ~ Beat Sushi with Jason Emde
Spontaneous riffs and readings from world rambling renegade letter writer with a new master’s thesis, Jason Emde who, as it
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Beat Sushi
Community & Correspondence ~ Beat Sushi for Dan in Mass & Jack Kerouac 100
Taking a break from chainsaw noise cutting down bamboo, DaveO rambles on about the importance of community and correspondence (yes
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Personal Musings
memo: summer 1991 flashback
(in reply to a deadhead’s note): 1991 was a heckuva summer for me – turning 21, retiring the fake ID,
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(Brief) Intro to The Beat Generation #video
A rollicking rapid-fire, mixed-media introduction to The Beat Generation – made especially for youth (specifically, a 11th grade lit class
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List: books of note / recent-ish (from a bus)
Semi-legible list of recent books read… in bed a lot recently so staying off the robot screens and looking at
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“Meet the Beats“ ~ From 6 Poets San Fran 1955 to *everywhere*
A rapid-fire introduction to the “Beat Generation” focused on the story of “6 Poets at Gallery 6” reading Oct, 1955
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Poets, Passports, Postcards in the Cascadia Consulate
Burning sage, sharing global postal arrivals, variety of historic & alt passports, dropping needle on Ginsberg’s Howl, digressions on reconciliation,
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Helpful Quests, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Support: The Beat Museum
+ Beat Support + Many of you likely noticed the campaign to help the venerable San Francisco institution City Lights
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Collections of Artifacts, Personal Musings
Books: Shelf and Shrine at Tsuchida cottage (Winter 2019)
Books are my pals, even since a kid – and sometimes books (by circumstance or convenience) are stashed at mysterious
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