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Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted has appeared in City Lights Journal, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, New York Quarterly, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and a variety of small presses. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost?, which has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Olmsted's 25 year relationship with Ginsberg is chronicled in his Beatdom Books memoir Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg 1972-1997 - Letters and Recollections, available on Amazon.

The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces by Max Wolf Valerio – Review

Marc Olmsted

The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces by Max Wolf Valerio Eoagh Books, $20.00 Reviewed By Marc Olmsted MAX WOLF VALERIO said, “Before I transitioned, I was 19 and showed Allen Ginsberg a poem of mine ...

Episode 20 – Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Marc Olmsted with an original Brion Gysin dream machine Marc Olmsted is a poet whose work has appeared in a million different places, he's a teacher, of both writing...

Frankie

Marc Olmsted

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World – Review

Marc Olmsted

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World By Tosh Berman City Lights Books $17.95 reviewed by Marc Olmsted I first came across Wallace Berman's artwork in an underground newspaper in the late '60s - I can no long...

Drunken Turkey

Marc Olmsted

We got along and loved each other the way people do who share an interest in drugs and alcohol and sex. We loved each other in an animal way. We never got married but were together a total of 7 years until it finally f...

DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS—William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg–reviewed

Marc Olmsted

DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Steven Taylor, ed.) Three Rooms Press $26.00 Those lucky enough to have socialized with William Burroughs report the best situations had...

Screw

Marc Olmsted

It was the end of the 80s into 1990 and very hard for us to find a good rock n roll dance club in San Francisco. Everything was disco electronica and it all sounded the same with that amyl nitrate bass beat. The more inter...

   SCANNING FOR MONKS

Marc Olmsted

   SCANNING FOR MONKS Ambitition - my breaker of worlds = disappointment's king & chief ally of wake=up! Sipping bad coffee scanning for monks there's a lot I won't do now for your rottentooth deals -...

Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats – Review

Marc Olmsted

Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti $16.95, Shambhala Books The title of this collection comes from a rather obscure Bruce Springsteen song that David Bowie covered and ...

Egg Man

Marc Olmsted

My father was in a Twilight Zone, 1961, 'To Serve Man' ("It's a cook book" but he didn't say it) My dad, long gone, is holding a chart for the big headed alien I don't remember why He's a scientist - he's giving his ...

Head Without a Body

Marc Olmsted

I can't remember when I first met Vinny but by first memory he was already using heroin, as was Mark F. and now Peter. It was basically an East Coast thing that was kept very on the D/L out in the Wild West, so I never saw ...

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – Some Thoughts, No Spoilers

Marc Olmsted

Now that it's likely most of the most-interested have ingested the first 4 episodes of David Lynch's reboot of Twin Peaks on Showtime, I wanted to share some observations. As an elder, nearly 64, I watched the original se...

Portland Sheets

Marc Olmsted

A Glance Like Flashing Lightning

Marc Olmsted

"Homage! Tara, swift, heroic!" - Chapter III, Tara Tantra Facebook cyber-chat filled with bad news and petitions My answer to depression is sleep and caffeine, whichever works first Still. I shake off the blue...

A Simple Blues with a Few Intangibles
by George Wallace – Review

Marc Olmsted

George Wallace is a PostBeat poet. As defined by the ground-breaking Whitney Museum show of 1995, the era of 1950 to 1965 can be considered to be the time brackets of realized Beat art, literature and film. ...

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