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Kerouac & Ginsberg at Howl reading. Below: Ginsberg & ULA member Frank Walsh.
& street reading vs
HOWL farce at Columbia University,
Broadway & 116th, NYC, April 17 at 7 p.m.
CONTACT: howl@literaryrevolution.com
Our rallying cry:
"FREE THE BEATS!"
Read all about it:
*UPDATE 4/19/06: Click here for reports on
the aftermath of this protest!
*Top ULA activist Patrick King dishes our beef with the Columbia
Howl event in a Monday Report published March 6, 2006.
*UPDATE 4/3/06: Stuffy academic Phillip Lopate's
limp wristed reply to the ULA's challenge!
*UPDATE 4/13/06: ULA Protest article in Time Out New York!
*UPDATE 4/14/06: ULA poet Frank Walsh interviewed on WNYC's
Brian Lehrer show, along with Jason Shinder.
*UPDATE 4/15/06: The ULA's "Masked Professor" delivers a
bizarre videotaped CHALLENGE!
*HOWL @ Columbia Univ. You've got to pay $15 to get in?
But of course, Columbia Univ. faculty, students & staff
get a big fat discount!
*Check out the Academy of American Poets' description of the event.
Is this anything more than shameless promotion of
Jason Shinder's new book?
A Tale of Two Readings...
The ULA vs The Academy:
THEY will be reading inside Columbia's posh Miller Theatre.
WE will be reading outside in the street.
THEY charge $15 for admission.
WE put on a show for FREE!
THEY offer a stuffy academic and rich elite snoozefest: Rick Moody,
Phillip Lopate, Mark Doty, Jason Shinder, etc.
WE present exciting and talented Underground
luminaries! Frank Walsh, Richard Kostelanetz, King
Wenclas, Jack Saunders, Natalie Felix, Brady Russell &
many more!
Don't fret! The ULA is on the case:
*King Wenclas enters the fray! You knew he would! Check out the
buzz as Attacking the Demi-Puppets takes on Columbia & phony
establishment writers! Free the Beats!
*ULA Public Advocate JD Finch has more info on the HOWL protest
over at his blog.
Another Howl farce, out west:
*Outrage on both coasts! Posh San Francisco HOWL reading
muscles out underground event! Read the Monday Report by
Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia, published
March 13, 2006. Also check the Monday Report on this same issue
from homeless San Fran poet Gary Peterson.
Background info on Allen Ginsberg's HOWL:
*Find out what happened at the Six Gallery in San Fran, 1955.
*The Allen Ginsberg Trust web site: lots of great Beat stuff!
*HOWL: read the poem...and others.
*1994 Ginsberg interview conducted by ULA'er Wred Fright.
*Historic 1982 Ginsberg interview by ULA poet Frank Walsh.
