Author: Russell Thorburn
A surreal experience having one of your Beatles die and watching it at the hotel bar where you lived off chili night and popcorn and endless cups of coffee.
The continuing story of Janina Milosz (nee Dluska), the wife of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, living in Berkeley while Czeslaw was giving a reading in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
This is a story about Janina Milosz (nee Dluska), the wife of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, waking from a dream in Berkeley while he was giving a reading in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Russell Thorburn had an occasion to ride around with Allen Ginsberg in 1974 while in the Upper Peninsula, he imagines what Ginsberg may have been thinking about.
Richard Brautigan stood before me at the front desk. It would be his last reading before he returned to Bolinas and blew out his brains with a gun. But nobody knew that.
In some ways, what I really did was mind the store: Lawrence Ferlinghetti in flight over Iron Mountain, Michigan, and feet on the ground on his death day.
