Posts tagged "Janine Pommy Vega"
The Poetry Project co-presenting Praise Day for Janine Pommy Vega
Praise Day for poet Janine Pommy Vega will be held at The Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, February 27 from 1-3:30pm and co-presented by The Poetry Project. Friends who will speak include Andy Clausen, John Giorno, Bob Holman, Danny Shot, Hettie Jones, Ilka Scobie, Anne Waldman and others. The short film Janine Pommy Vega, “As [...]
Janine Pommy Vega 1942-2010 – A Remembrance by Anne Waldman
Janine Pommy Vega, Beat Sister
February 5, 1942- December 23, 2010
A great sister spirit, woman extraordinaire of the Beat literary movement who left her home in Union City, New Jersey age 15 to seek out the Beats, died December 23rd at her home in Willow, New York, outside Woodstock. She was close to Gregory Corso, Herbert [...]
Peter Orlovsky Memorial Reading
[ Wednesday, September 22, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Poet, singer, farmer, yodeler, banjo-picker, Buddhist-practitioner, Allen Ginsberg’s lifelong-companion, Kerouac’s Simon Darlovsky in Desolation Angels & George in The Dharma Bums, the generous & wonderfully whimsical Peter Orlovsky, (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010), was an unforgettable & hugely colorful presence in the East Village, and in and around the Poetry Project. Please join [...]
