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• Blind Curse By SImon J. Ortiz • You could drive blind for those two seconds and they would be forever. I think that as a diesel truck passes us eight miles east of Mission. Churning through the storm, heedless of the hill sliding away. There isn’t much use to curse but I do. Words fly away, tumbling invisibly toward the unseen point where the prairie and sky meet. The road is like that in those seconds, nothing but the blind white side of creation.  You’re there somewhere, a tiny struggling cell. You just might be significant but you might not be anything. Forever is a space of split time from which to recover after the mass passes. My curse flies out there somewhere, and then I send my prayer into the wake of the diesel truck headed for Sioux Falls one hundred and eighty miles through the storm. Simon Ortiz, “Blind Curse” from After and Before the Lightning (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1994). Copyright © 1994 by Simon Ortiz. • Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz,  Boulder Colorado,  July 1985 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #simonortiz  #naropauniversity #kerouacschool #bouldercolorado #AcomaPueblo #allenginsberg #poetrycommunity #nativeamericanrenaissance #fromsandcreek #simonjortiz #indigeneous #nativeamericanoraltraditions (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPG-etRhoH4/?utm_medium=tumblr

Photo: Boulder Colorado, July 1990, snapped by Allen.

#dianediprima #loba #revolutionaryletters #floatingbear #amiribaraka #thiskindofbirdfliesbackward #memoirsofabeatnik #recollectionsofmylifeasawoman #loba #girlpower #poetsofinstgram #poetry #poetrycommunity #kerouacschool @diprimaradio @rudidiprima @amberrosetamblyn (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDnSPkrhIQV/?igshid=1t6jaisbw5amm

Anne Waldman, orator poet directress of Naropa Institute Poetics School at Jane Faigao’s table, August 15th 1985. Robert Frank’s The Americans under her wrist. (Ginsberg caption) photo c. Allen Ginsberg Estate. Anne Waldman was born this day in Millville, NJ 1945. Happy 75th Anne!!  Thank you for your energy your guiding light and your inspiration most of all your poetry! • #annewaldman #allenginsberg #poetry #instapoets #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #writers #beatgeneration #naropauniversity #nraopaswp #kerouacschool #bouldercolorado (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-flBS8BaWW/?igshid=1jfau436ebjzl

Poet, priestess,  role model, teacher and towering figure in the beat generation, one of the few women in a largely all-male club, she continues writing to this day, albeit with major health setbacks.  Of her Allen writes: • Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s' Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated, and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes.  A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity.  (here Boulder Colorado, July 1987.  photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg) • #dianediprima #loba #revolutionaryletters #floatingbear #amiribaraka #thiskindofbirdfliesbackward #memoirsofabeatnik #recollectionsofmylifeasawoman #loba #girlpower #poetsofinstgram #poetry #poetrycommunity #kerouacschool @diprimaradio @rudidiprima (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9P2fgGBisr/?igshid=6hm72z889h23

• Happy Birthday Marianne Faithfull!   (photo snapped by Allen in  Boulder, Colorado, July 1989,  where she’d been guest teaching at Allen’s request for the Naropa Summer Writing program. Their lives had crossed paths many times by then)   • #mariannefaithfull #brokenenglish #naropaswp #kerouacschool #strangeweather (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6q2dPshCtl/?igshid=t11gvjqr1ndx

Anne Waldman “orator poet co-director Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics” & Harry Smith “archive-genius painter filmmaker”, Naropa University, July 1990. Harry’d been resident alchemist at Naropa 2 years by then and was soon to return to New York. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #annewaldman #fastspeakingwoman #girlpower #penguinpoets #poetry #harrysmith #anthologyofamericanfolkmusic #alchemy #smithsonianfolkways #poetsofinstagram #americanpoetry #americanmagus #harrysmitharchives #naropaswp #kerouacschool @fastspeakingmusic @annewaldman @edwinlefevre (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6nzFV9h_D5/?igshid=1sm3725t4ryjn

Anne Waldman, orator Poet diretress of Naropa Institute Poetics School at Jane Faigao’s table, August 15, 1985. Robert Frank’s The Americans under her wrist (photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)  #annewaldman #poetry #poetics #jackkerouac #kerouacschool #naropa #naropaswp #bouldercolorado #robertfrank #allenginsberg #girlpower #womenwriters #womenpoets #matriarchy #fastspeakingwoman #poetrycommunity (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3fMFhEBWRr/?igshid=1ey1tfa2p8meu