#michaelmcclure

📅 Published: April 1968

There was a time a Guy could ride a Harley and not call himself a Biker. #Petercoyote

#andreivoznesensky #michaelmcclure #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #jimmorrison #thedoors #raymanzarek #russianpoet #sovietpoet #grahhr #dharmabums (at Hotel Chelsea)

The first celebrated reading of “Howl”, Part I only, at 6 Gallery, October 7, 1955, wasn’t taped,  so Prof. Tom Parkinson, member of Rexroth’s old Buddhist anarchist circle, organized another reading at Berkeley’s little Town Hall Theater festooned with Chinese ink brush orgy drawings by Robert LaVigne-- a couple hundred people crowded in, a mixture of artists from San Francisco, poetry aficionados, friends of Robert Duncan, ladies from the Potrero District, North Beach Bohemians, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cassady, Ann charters, and an amazing group of poets on stage including Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, with Kenneth Rexroth as Master of Ceremonies. Five months after the 6 Gallery reading I’d finished Parts II and III of “Howl”. This added a huge dimension, extending the power of the poem into the Moloch section and beyond. And this was the first time I’d read “Howl” all the way through aloud, beginning to end, as well as “Sunflower Sutra”, “A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley” and “America,” further experiments with the long breath’d verse line.

the pretty boy Michael McClure is gone. He was the well dressed handsome one of the poets. The young one who passed away at 87 years old. When everyone was wearing flannel and denim Michael stood out in his tailored suits and what appeared to me be Italian leather shoes. Howling, barking, yipping, gurgling the sounds of nature and mind. Brilliant. Standing out and outstanding. I was fortunate to see him read many times in venues and also to see him in the streets. At the “sit in” hosted by San Francisco Zen Center he sang along with our Cajun inspired sutras. He’s gone. Back in the day attending readings my friends and I would pass the Jack. Once the cap was removed and the bottle was passed, Jack never returned. To Michael. #michaelmcclure #poetry #thebeats #jackdaniels #whiskey #love #beauty #flowers #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/B_6MYinJo2o/?igshid=fzwrzdlaxdm4

Michael McClure, with Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan,  and in other shots, Julius Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Allen’d arranged for Larry Keenan Jr, and Dale Smith to take their photo in the alleyway behind City Lights books for possible use on the cover of Dylan’s blonde on Blonde.”   This was 1965, almost exactly 10 years after Allen and McClure had met while organizing the famous Six Gallery Poetry reading that launched both their careers (photos: Larry Keenan Jr, & Dale Smith)  •  #michaelmcclure #larrykeenanjr #dalesmith #bobdylan #allenginsberg #juliusorlovksy #citylightsbooks #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights (at Jack Kerouac Alley) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2eXQMBsoy/?igshid=475n8nchu5xz

Fare thee well dear Michael • #michaelmcclure #poetrycommunity #grahhr (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2b5q1BL9y/?igshid=o2fryim85cb1

cf. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/McClure.php