Allen Ginsberg Howl

A Poem for the Marcellus

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.02.2012

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Sandra Steingraber

In honor of both National Poetry Month and Earth Day, I offer below a love song to the bedrock: the methane-suffused shale that geologists call the Marcellus, which now lies in the crosshairs of the oil and gas industry.

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He Was More Than a Book Clerk

Jan Herman | Posted 12.04.2011

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Jan Herman

Fifty-four years ago two undercover cops in San Francisco arrested a clerk at City Lights Bookstore for selling them an "obscene" book of poetry.

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Allen Ginsberg: Buddhist Rabbi, Mystic Poet

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michele Somerville

Years later I would begin to meditate in the contemplative Roman Catholic tradition favored by the Benedictine monks, and delight in the irony of having learned "to sit" from the Jewish Buddhist poetry teacher Allen Ginsberg.

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