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& includes readings from Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Jackie Curtis, Frank O’Hara, Maureen Owen, Taylor Mead, Tony Towle, Jack Spicer, Peter Orlovsky, Michael Brownstein, Jackson MacLow, Taylor Meade, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Jack Spicer, William Carlos Williams, Erica Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Jerome Rothenberg, & Ken Kesey. #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #johngiorno #amiribaraka #maureenowen #annewaldman #jackiecurtis #jacksonmacklow #MichaelMcClure #joannekyger #sylviaPlath #johnGiorno #edSanders #bukowski #charlesBukowski #williamcarloswilliams #dialapoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #taylormead (at Manhattan, New York)

Includes work by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Kaye, Tuli Kupferberg, Robert Nichols, John Keys, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, Diane Wakoski, Jim Standish, Lenore Kandel, Mary Mayo, Julian Beck, Harry Fainlight, Nelson Barr and the editor. 

other participants include Jayne Cortez, Anne Waldman, Pedro Pietri, Natalie Merchant, Andy Clausen, Danny Schechter, Patti Smith and Philip Glass performing for the first time together, The Fugs, David Greenberg, Eliot Katz, David Dellinger, pretty much everyone on the poster except for Amiri Baraka who showed up just after the show ended. Emceed by Bob Rosenthal & Ed Sanders

#allenginsberg #beatgeneration #fugs #beatpoetry #poetry #thefugs #peaceeye #mansonfamily  #thefamily #investigativepoetry #thepoetryandlifeofallenginsberg #thefamily #talesofbeatnikglory #edwardsanders #glyphs #peace #woodstockjournal (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEAVgC2hx5a/?igshid=1urtn6lws72qe

Crash course in Ed Sanders, for the unfamiliar:  Ed founded the avant-garde journal “Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts”  while still in school, graduated in 1964 with a degree in classical Greek, formed the Fugs that same year with Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver (notable for such ditties  as ‘Saran Wrap fuck’, & ‘Boobs a Lot,’  and setting music to Blake’s ‘Ah Sunflower’ among many greats)  &  created the Peace Eye bookstore at 383 East 10th Street in the Lower East Side, a vortex for bohemian activity in the mid 1960s, thus inevitably raided by the police, only for him to prevail in court.   In 1971 he published his  chronicle of the Manson Family Sharon Tate murders  ‘The Family.’ In 1976 founded of the Investigative Poetry movement and in the 80s and 90s (along with reforming The Fugs in 1984) started a series of biographical historic poems on Chekov, Allen Ginsberg, the year 1968, and an American History in three volumes..  and this is just the tip of the iceberg!  Let’s not forget Tales of Beatnik Glory 1990 and Jail Poem  1961 written on toilet paper (jailed for protesting a nuclear submarine launch)   Lot’s more to add… “Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side” was published in 2011 by DaCapo Press

#edsanders #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #fugs #thefugs #beatpoetry #poetry #thefugs #peaceeye #mansonfamily  #thefamily #investigativepoetry #thepoetryandlifeofallenginsberg #thefamily #talesofbeatnikglory #edwardsanders #glyphs #woodstockjournal (at Woodstock, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEC98pjBiIu/?igshid=13ybf5fvn91df

Still from the doc “Circuit Earth” filmed in Philadelphia, April 1970 at the time of the first Earth Day, 50 years ago. the 43 minute film features Allen with Alan Watts, Jerry Rubin, and Ed Sanders among others. We’ll post the link in our bio, but you can just google Circuit Earth & Allen Ginsberg and the Dangerous Minds post should come up. • #earthday #alanwatts #allenginsberg #jerryrubin #edsanders #poetry #writers #circuitearth #dangerousminds (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TBzZChd5m/?igshid=lwts5f0zyun6

Ed Sanders was born 80 Years ago today. Happy Birthday Ed! (Ed & Miriam Sanders, Woodstock, NY Summer 1993. Snapped by Allen Ginsberg. Courtesy Stanford University Libraries/ Allen Ginsberg Estate/ Getty imaged) #edsanders #thefugs #poetry #poets #beatgeneration #writers #photography #woodstock #thefamily #peaceeye #talesofbeatnickglory #literature (at Woodstock, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UIAvFhSyH/?igshid=f2gl0va9cx52