Best Minds: How Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness

118 East Washington Street,Ann Arbor MI 48104

01 April, 2023

Description

JOIN US on Saturday, April 1st for the Ann Arbor launch of Dr. Stevan Weine's groundbreaking new biography, "Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness." FIRST, Dr. Weine will preside over a truly dynamic talk incorporating readings, reflections, audio, images, and discussion, before segueing the evening into a panel discussion featuring David Stephen Calonne, author of six totemic works of biography & literary scholarship. These include "Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019), "The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017) and is also among the world's foremost living scholars on the life & work of Charles Bukowski. Before concluding, Dr. Calonne & Dr. Weine will open up the event further, taking questions from the audience on The Beat Generation, Ginsberg, or any of the many scholastic specialties these titanic Beat-scholarly heavyweights share.