I just heard that Janine Pommy Vega, a well-loved latter-day Beat poet, has died. No further info yet, but here’s a link to one of her performances (featuring Jason Eisenberg on guitar, video by Laki Vazakas). And here’s a note about Janine by her friend Anne Waldman.
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Amiri Baraka, a seminal Beat poet, angry playwright, revolutionary activist and scrappy indie publisher from Newark, New Jersey has died. The Allen Ginsberg Project blog has the scoop. Here’s a Litkicks article about Amiri Baraka by Jamelah Earle from 2003. Please feel free to share your memories or personal encounters with Amiri Baraka by leaving …
The poet Michael McClure, who died on May 4, 2020 in his home in Oakland, California, was one of five readers at the seminal Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco in 1955 that kicked off the Beat Generation ...
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A great fierce light has gone
A great fierce light has gone out of this world. Janine was ‘large eyed and generous,’ and will be missed by so many of us.
Thanks for posting this, Levi.
George Wallace
“And she came as a woman
You remember?
Once as a mother, plucking out
the hearstrings, tender
merciless she came
…wearing jewels
the Dog Star and the Hunter
for a belt
Large-eyed and generous she
swooped with beak and talon
mercy dripping from the branches,
You remember?”
fr “The Bard Owl,” by Janine Pommy Vega
Janine Pommy Vega, Restless
Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/03vega.html