HAPPY BIRTHDAY

April 2, 1945 ~ born Anne Waldman in Millville, is a poet, performance artist, literary theorist, feminist, and cultural activist, has channeled her passions and experiences into poetry, urging us toward civic and political responsibility. Waldman, with Ginsberg, founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (now Naropa University), and she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's famous Summer Writing Program.

Anne Waldman: Poetry in Peformance
(youtube)

April 4, 1928 ~ born in St. Louis, Missouri, Maya Angelou, /poet, journalist, an actor of screen and stage, a director, a civil rights activist, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a professor..
Maya Angelou (wikipedia)

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April 11, 1944 ~ Csaba Polony,
Artist/Writer/Editor/and Publisher of Left Curve magazine for 38 years which grew from an obscure Bay Area journal to an internationally acclaimed compilation of critical thought, political analysis, and artistic expression.Csaba also painted all of his life,but in keeping with his independent spirit, he chose never to display his work, just as he chose never to accept advertising for Left Curve. Csaba died peacefully at his home on March 9, 2014. Csaba Polony.com

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March 2, 1927 ~ poet Philip Lamantia was born in SanFrancisco's Excelsior neighborhood to Sicilian immigrants. In his freshman year in high school, he saw a retrospective exhibition of Dali and Miró, which made such a strong impression that he embraced the artistic and literary movement Surrealism. He was a Member of the San Francisco Beat Generation poets and The Surrealist Movement in the United States
Lamenta died of heart failure on March 7 at his
apartment in San Francisco. He was 77.

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April 16, 1844, born, Anatole France, poet, journalist, and novelist in Paris. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
On May 31. 1922, France's entire works were put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Prohibited Books Index) of the Roman Catholic Church. The Index was abolished in 1966.
Anatole France (Wikepedia)

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.~Anatole France

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April 18, 1925
~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ BOB KAUFMAN ~

(photo: Bob Kaufman @ Jean Carlisle)
Poet Bob Kaufman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.In 1959. Bob Kaufman was a founder of Beatitude magazine.

"He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else wrote poetry like him."
...Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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April 15, 1452 ~ Leonardo da Vinci. was born on
this day.. Leonardo de Vinci
was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, botanist, musician mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, and writer. He has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man.

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April 23, 1941 ~
Allen Cohen. was born in Booklyn, New York and in the early '60's.He was a writer, a poet and one of the founders and editor of the of the SF Oracle underground rainbow newspaper first
published in the Haight in September 1966. Allen was a visionary and a champion for peace and justice and an inspiration to his generation. The memory of Allen Cohen
will live forever in the hearts of those who loved him. Wavy Gravy said Allen Cohen was "tie-dyed to the bone". and manybelieve it was Allen Cohen who was the inspiration for the song
"When you're going to San Francisco".Allen died on April 30, 2004 one week after his 64th. birthday.

This year EARTH DAY will be
FRIDAY,APRIL 22.2022)