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Beat & Beyond: A Day of Remembrance

2 PM: Remembering d.a. levy and Reminiscing on the Value of Bookstores
Readings of d.a. levy’s poetry and a panel discussion featuring Ed Sanders, David Kirschenbaum, Kent Taylor (via Skype), and others.
Turning his native Cleveland into a capital of Beat culture, people’s poet, publisher, non-comformist, pamphleteer, and counter-cultural icon d.a. levy embodies the spirit of the Beat underground. The afternoon and evening events shine a light on another Cleveland Beat centerpiece, Jim Lowell’s Asphodel Bookshop, raided in 1966 for selling obscene literature, and from there to other bookstores like City Lights, 8th Street Books, St. Marks Bookshop and Peace Eye Bookstore that were the hubs and homes of the Beat poets and fellow travelers in the movement.

4 PM: The Six Gallery Reading
Michael McClure orchestrates a celebration of the Six Gallery reading in 1955 in San Francisco, the moment Ginsberg first unveiled Howl! to the public. The legendary reading included Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen with Kenneth Rexroth as MC and Jack Kerouac passing around the red wine and shouting “Go! Go! Go!” McClure will present as Kenneth Rexroth and be joined by Ava Chin as Gary Snyder, Hettie Jones as Allen Ginsberg, Max Blagg as Philip Lamantia, Andy Clausen as Philip Whalen and Nikhil Melnechuk as McClure, himself.

5:30 PM: We Remember
A gathering of the Beat poets and others to share poetry, stories, memories, and personal anecdotes of those we’ve lost, with a Wall of Names being created. John Giorno will open the proceedings with “The Death of William Burroughs, a selection of short film will be presented and a remembrance wall will be installed for anyone to share, alongside Mark Turgeon’s ongoing live-painting, An Incomplete History of Beat. The evening will close with a group reading from Ginsberg’s “Kaddish.”

8 PM: Concert
We’ll all dance over to Bowery Electric for a concert featuring, Peter Stampfel The Fugs, including lead warbler Ed Sanders, and The Last Poets, with Abiodun Oyewole. Umar bin Hasan, and Babatunde.

6 EAST 1ST STREET
NYC 10003

Phone: 917.475.1294

Free











When: Sat., Jun. 4, 2016 at 2:00 pm

2 PM: Remembering d.a. levy and Reminiscing on the Value of Bookstores
Readings of d.a. levy’s poetry and a panel discussion featuring Ed Sanders, David Kirschenbaum, Kent Taylor (via Skype), and others.
Turning his native Cleveland into a capital of Beat culture, people’s poet, publisher, non-comformist, pamphleteer, and counter-cultural icon d.a. levy embodies the spirit of the Beat underground. The afternoon and evening events shine a light on another Cleveland Beat centerpiece, Jim Lowell’s Asphodel Bookshop, raided in 1966 for selling obscene literature, and from there to other bookstores like City Lights, 8th Street Books, St. Marks Bookshop and Peace Eye Bookstore that were the hubs and homes of the Beat poets and fellow travelers in the movement.

4 PM: The Six Gallery Reading
Michael McClure orchestrates a celebration of the Six Gallery reading in 1955 in San Francisco, the moment Ginsberg first unveiled Howl! to the public. The legendary reading included Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen with Kenneth Rexroth as MC and Jack Kerouac passing around the red wine and shouting “Go! Go! Go!” McClure will present as Kenneth Rexroth and be joined by Ava Chin as Gary Snyder, Hettie Jones as Allen Ginsberg, Max Blagg as Philip Lamantia, Andy Clausen as Philip Whalen and Nikhil Melnechuk as McClure, himself.

5:30 PM: We Remember
A gathering of the Beat poets and others to share poetry, stories, memories, and personal anecdotes of those we’ve lost, with a Wall of Names being created. John Giorno will open the proceedings with “The Death of William Burroughs, a selection of short film will be presented and a remembrance wall will be installed for anyone to share, alongside Mark Turgeon’s ongoing live-painting, An Incomplete History of Beat. The evening will close with a group reading from Ginsberg’s “Kaddish.”

8 PM: Concert
We’ll all dance over to Bowery Electric for a concert featuring, Peter Stampfel The Fugs, including lead warbler Ed Sanders, and The Last Poets, with Abiodun Oyewole. Umar bin Hasan, and Babatunde.

6 EAST 1ST STREET
NYC 10003

Phone: 917.475.1294

Free

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