CAT to present evening of Beat poetry and jazz Oct 21, 2009
Members of the EIU faculty will present poems by such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Anne Waldman, with improvisatory jazz music provided by an ensemble under the leadership of Paul Johnston. The reading has been compiled by directors Bailey Young and David Radavich. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
The Five Faces of Jerry Brown Oct 14, 2009
Brown avoided the expensive new governor s mansion and rented a $275 apartment instead; he drove a Plymouth rather than being chauffeured in a limo; he took a salary cut; he slept on a futon; he dated Linda Ronstadt; he described his job as a pain in the ass and told reporters he liked to govern through creative inaction ; he put the Beat poet Gary Snyder on the California Arts Council. If those impulses weren t entirely consistent, that only enhanced the symbolic effect. (The American Conservative)
Kerouac's unintended legacy? A legal limbo Aug 16, 2009
It made a national hero of poet and ecologist Gary Snyder, portrayed as Japhy Ryder in the novel, and introduced Buddhism to tens of thousands of Westerners who knew nothing about it before. Visions of Cody, the Neal Cassady and Jack "on the road" story told in a nonlinear fashion, with the timeline completely exploded and incredibly long, sometimes 10,000-word riffs on seemingly insignificant events, like sitting in a cafeteria over a cup of coffee or kneeling to say a prayer in a dark church -... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* [PAPERBACK: TAIWAN] Taipei-resident poet sweetly celebrates the call of the north May 31, 2009
They are easily accessible, and reminiscent of the best work of Gary Snyder. The Taiwan poems, by contrast, actually contain very little about Taiwan. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Tom Killion: In the arms of Mount Tam May 20, 2009
All that's left of poet Gary Snyder's tiny cabin, cantilevered on the south side of Mount Tamalpais, is a rough plank floor ... "Gary Snyder was part of rediscovering the mountain's hiking culture," Killion said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 10 San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 10 / May 11, 2009
TAMALPAIS WALKING: Poetry, History, and Prints, by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder (Heyday Books; 160 pages; $50). 10. (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers April 19 / Apr 20, 2009
TAMALPAIS WALKING, Tom Killion and Gary Snyder (Heyday Books; 160 pages; $50): The artist and the poet pay tribute to the mountain. 6. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Images shift viewers' focus from Paris to space to China Apr 11, 2009
The Cambridge photographer's sitters are writers or artists (Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Michael Mazur). Geographers of the imagination, they, too, partake of travel. (Boston Globe)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
"When Alexandra came out to the Bay Area," he said, "I think she had planned mostly to interview the poets, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder." The catalog - and to a lesser extent the show - treats Asian influences on American writers as well as visual artists. "I was the one who mentioned David Ireland and Tom Marioni to her," Kos said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
School of Fish, by Eileen Myles Mar 20, 2009
Her poetry most closely resembles New American poetry, as stylized by Beat Poets Gary Snyder and Robert Creely, because she shares some traits with them: especially the idea that America has so much potential, and that poems should make us think about America and its complicated history. Like Creely and Snyder, Myles mixes metaphor and reality, which is at times specific and at times general. (Suite101.com)
Is CEO pay at Angel Food Ministries excessive? Mar 19, 2009
Gary Snyder, author author of Nonprofits: On the Brink, writes that: The charitable sector is struggling to keep the publics confidence because it lacks good governance, financial accountability, transparency and provisions against conflicts of interests. It mirrors the attributes greed, arrogance and outrageous corporate behavior assigned to the for-profit sector. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Is CEO pay at Angel Food Ministries excessive? Two views Mar 18, 2009
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