What do you get if you take Beat icon Michael McClure (who penned Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz”), add Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Ray Manzarek (Doors keyboardist), stir in jazz/Indian fusion saxophonist and composer George Brooks (Etta James, Summit, …{read more}
New Poetry Collection: Visions of the Drowning Man by Dee Sunshine
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Dee Sunshine’s third poetry collection, “Visions Of The Drowning Man”, has recently been published.
What other writers are saying about the book:
“His work reminds me of Blake’s proverb about the road to excess leading to the palace of wisdom”. …{read more}
Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek – The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco
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NEW RELEASE!
Listen to tracks / buy at Amazon:
Piano Poems: Live in San Francisco
A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old San Francisco church, features both new and older poems, with …{read more}
Jazz & Poetry Collaboration Workshop: Michael McClure & George Brooks
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The JazzSchool of Berkeley
Is Offering a Rare Workshop by
GEORGE
BROOKS
&
MICHAEL
Mc CLURE
Jazz & Poetry: The Craft of Collaboration
SATURDAY, JULY 7th, 2012, 3:15 pm
The JazzSchool
2087 Addison St. Berkeley, CA
This workshop offers an …{read more}
Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee
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Lawrence FerlinghettiMarch 11, 1987
Taken in his office above City Lights Bookstore (shaped like an arrowhead bisecting Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley), Ferlinghetti spends more time in his painting studio at this point in his life. A quiet, …{read more}
The Last Waltz Considered
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The Last Waltz was a revolutionary documentary. It was the first concert movie shot in 35 mm, the record of a celebration of the Band’s last concert on the site of their first show as The Band. It is the …{read more}
Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle
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Kirby Doyle & the Snows of Yesteryear by Michael McClure
In 1958 Kirby Doyle’s menage on Sacramento Street, in a basement apartment of the no-man’s land between the wealthy on the Hill and the Black Fillmore District, had a Francois …{read more}
In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008
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THE ARTIST
for Bruce Conner
THE ARTIST has faces that are nude ladies and feathers.
Women pose in the visage of the whirlpool
raising bare arms and arching bare thighs.
Tentacles of squid sway down among pinions
of African eagles ...{read more}