Check out this amazing clip of legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reciting a poem on William F. Buckley Jr.’s conservative talk show “Firing Line.” Enjoy!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCWbVl4IKpU]Allen Ginsberg Reading
April 18, 2014
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National Poetry Month: April 21st
April 21, 2010
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
— and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? Continue reading “National Poetry Month: April 21st”