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Paul Krassner : Remembering Tuli Kupferberg
In the day: Paul Krassner, Tuli Kupferberg, and unidentified woman. Photo by Paskal / The Rag Blog.And about those rumors…Remembering Tuli By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / July 14, 2010 [Tuli Kupferberg, beat poet, singer, and a founder … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Deaths, Ed Sanders, Philip Roth, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Singers, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs : Rock’s Inner City Shaman
Tuli Kupferberg. Image from The Poetry Project.Beat poet, humanist, political mystic, rock star:The Fugs’ Tuli Kupferberg dies at 86 Despite all my waspy-whitebread cultural upbringing I fell in love with this individual immediately, even though he was probably the ugliest … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Generation, Carl R. Hultberg, New York City, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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Austin Benefit : Friends Support, Celebrate Marilyn Buck
Robert King, former Black Panther and member of the Angola 3, speaks in support of Marilyn Buck at June 25 benefit in Austin. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Lively Austin gathering benefitsPolitical prisoner Marilyn Buck By Mariann G. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners, Robert King, Sixties, Social Action, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer
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Vision of a Better World : Let the Poets Speak
Meridel Le Sueur. Photo from Working Women.Class, race, empire, and resistance:The vision of the poetBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / June 28, 2010 Oil Spills as the Gulf of Mexico is Destroyed Judge with BP Stock Rules Against … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Harry Targ, Left, Literature, Poetry, Poets, Radical Arts, Social Change
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Friday in Austin : Free Marilyn Now!
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE Join us in Austin this Friday:Free Marilyn Buck Now! By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2010 A benefit for Marilyn Buck this Friday, June 25, will raise funds and gather healing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin, Black Panthers, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners, Rag Radio, Robert King, Sixties, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer
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Warrior-Poet Marilyn Buck : No Wall Too Tall
In prison but clearly in bloom. Marilyn Buck at Dublin FCI, 1994. Photo by Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog.Supporters call for release:Free Austin’s Marilyn Buck! For her acts of selfless courage on behalf of victims of American criminal … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Criminal Justice, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners, Sixties, The Rag
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A Poet’s Legacy : No Rest for the Weary?
Image from Steve and Sara’s Photostream / Flickr.Edna St. Vincent Millay andThe profitability of charity By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / April 12, 2010 “Thou canst not move across the grassBut my quick eyes will see Thee … Continue reading
Marc Estrin : Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, 1948. Photo from Deutsches Bundesarchiv / Wikimedia Commons.Of Poor B.B.:Bertolt Brecht speaks from the grave By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / February 11, 2010 [German playwright, poet, and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht was born on February … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Germany, Leftists, Literature, Marc Estrin, Playwrights, Poets, Theater
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South Africa’s Dennis Brutus : A Poet for Human Rights
Dennis Brutus. Photos by Victor Dlamini / Flickr.He will be remembered for his art and for his life:Liberation poet Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 2, 2010 See ‘The Poetic Justice of Dennis … Continue reading
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Tagged Apartheid, Deaths, Human Rights, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Nelson Mandela, Peace Activists, People, Poetry, Poets, Rugby, South Africa, Sports
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‘Magic’ Poet, ‘Weed Ambassador’ Simon Vinkenoog Dead at 80
Poet Simon Vinkenoog, a Sixties icon. With the death of Simon Vinkenoog Amsterdam loses one more of its iconic ambassadors of the ‘Swinging Sixties’… when the Dutch capital gained its reputation as a drugs-friendly Magic Centre… By Rob Kievit / … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Deaths, Drugs, Marijuana, Poets, Psychedelics, Sixties
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Marilyn Buck from the Greybar : Reflections on Liberation and Poetry
Portrait of Marilyn Buck by Tom Manning from Can’t Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning and others, 2006. The following is from former Austinite and Ragamuffin (contributor to our Sixties underground paper), long-time political prisoner and poet … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Poets, Political Prisoners, Sixties, The Rag, Women's Movement
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Singin’ on Thursday: Leonard Cohen, Poetic Master
Thank You Leonard CohenBy Joel Hirschhorn / May 14, 2009 The other night I went to a Leonard Cohen concert. I have never seen a huge audience over a very broad age spectrum so completely enraptured, impassioned and wild over … Continue reading
