Naropa Summer Writing Program 2026 - The Allen Ginsberg Project An early announcement (classes don’t begin until the 1st of June) but taking time out today to make our annual announcement regarding the Naropa Summer Writing Program  – “Metabolic Thrum” (sic) – tha...

@billymills.bsky.social - Naropa Summer Writing Program allenginsberg.org/2026/04/t-a-...

Contributions How to contribute to The Starbeck Orion

Got some poetry you'd like to see published. Try here: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

With thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

As ever, thanks Dave.

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 16 A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack, with a commitment to following a somewhat haphazardly chosen selection of poets, poetry lovers, literary cr…

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/4
www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

@billymills.bsky.social - William Blake's System - allenginsberg.org/2026/04/m-a-...

@billymills.bsky.social -Happy Birthday Remembering the great Bob Kaufman ( 1925-1986) - allenginsberg.org/2019/09/w-s-...

@billymills.bsky.social - Remembering Kathy Acker #BOTD allenginsberg.org/2013/04/reme...

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A64 underpass at Middlethorpe, City of York, Thursday 2 April 2026.

A walk from York to Goole, via the River Ouse, Bishopthorpe, the Trans Pennine Trail, Selby and Boothferry, 9am to 9.30pm Thursday 2 April 2026.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 765 - The Allen Ginsberg Project Kronos/Ginsberg  May 11, 2026 poster – design by Madalyn Stefanak More Centennial announcements – Kronos Quartet & friends in San Francisco, May 11 at The Chapel Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s personal copy ...

@billymills.bsky.social - Allen Ginsberg Centennial events - Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Bob Rosenthal & more - allenginsberg.org/2026/04/f-a-...

Same new words for me.

@billymills.bsky.social - The great dancer Merce Cunningham was born on this day. April 16 1919 - allenginsberg.org/2019/04/t-a-...

somewordsforlivinglocally.com/2026/04/16/t...

Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position.

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Thanks Robert.

Two Poems by Todd Dillard - The Dodge

suuuuuuuuuper excited to be a featured poet in the latest issue of @thedodgemag.bsky.social! Check out my new poems! thedodgemag.com/spring-2026-...

Good review here of Finch's book, which I have also reviewed for Tears in the Fence (forthcoming print edition).

eliot looks a bit angry, woolf suspicious

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

The Literary Business by Peter Finch: A Review The Literary Business, Peter Finch, Parthian Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1917140522, £20.00 How do you sell books? Get the customer to pick up a copy and then give you the money. Why is this so bloody h…

It's review o'clock already.
@parthianbooks.bsky.social

ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/t...

Jean Genet - The Allen Ginsberg Project Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg, Chicago Democratic Convention, August, 1968. Photo. c. Michael Cooper From 1985 – here’s Jean Genet’s legendary last interview (with the BBC’s Nigel Williams) Read the t...

@billymills.bsky.social - Remembering Jean Genet - allenginsberg.org/2024/04/m-a-...

Allen Ginsberg William Blake and Mysticism - 3 (Lectures on the Four Zoas - 16) - The Allen Ginsberg Project Ezekial’s Vision – Raphael – oil on panel 16.1 ins x 11.8 ins (1518) in the collection of the Galleria Palatina, Florence Allen Ginsberg on William Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas continues from here AG...

@billymills.bsky.social - allenginsberg.org/2026/04/w-a-...

When reading about Viktor Orbán in the run-up to the election, I was horrified (there's no other word) to find out that he is the same age as me.
There's such a difference between my in-my-head age and my real age.

Do listen, sound well up.

The later stuff I can live without.

@billymills.bsky.social - "Mayakovsky's suicide/rainbow over machinery/and backtalk to the sun" Remembering Vladimir Mayakovsky - allenginsberg.org/.../vladimir...

As a reason the boss will accept for me being late into work, I know that: 'My favourite tree was exceptionally talkative today' won't fly. It might be entirely true, but it won't be accepted. Still, some things are too important to ignore. – Toby Bazeley #VOH #ThickTrunkTuesday

Yes, great fun.

💜Full message from the Muslim Sisters of Éire on their insta

Clannad - Níl Sé'n Lá YouTube video by An Ghaoth Aniar

RIP Moya Brennan. I loved the early Clannad stuff.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6c...