A review of Gregory Gave Me the World by Robert Yarra
“This engaging and abundantly interesting memoir sheds much new light on the restless life of one of the key figures of the Beat movement.”
–Gregory Stephenson
3 Book Release Party
Book Release Party for:
- The Jazz Painter by George Long
Interviews by Ayla Ginger - The Ascent of Mt. Obvious by Ronald F. Sauer
Poetry, prose, translations and artwork - Barbaric Haiku by Herbie Kearney
an accordion-style book of poems and drawings, republished by Golda Foundation
On Monday 1 September 2025 from 3 – 8pm
and Friday 5 September 2025 from 5 – 8pm
We’ll be celebrating with poetry, jazz and artwork at
LIVE WORMS GALLERY
1345 Grant Avenue, San Francisco — Map
A conversation about A Certain Kind of Wizard
Please join City Lights bookstore on August 19, 2025, in the virtual world, as Ira Landgarten and Tate Swindell discuss the life and work of Ira Cohen. We are celebrating the release of A CERTAIN KIND OF WIZARD – a dual publication from Lithic Press and Golda Foundation. Please note this is NOT an in-store event & you will need to REGISTER HERE for the Zoom broadcast. It begins at 6pm SAN FRANCISCO TIME. It will be recorded and posted online, eventually. You can turn your camera on or off, and you will be muted by City Lights.
A Review of Pyramid of Fire
A review of Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex: Spiritual Ascent at the End of Time by John Major Jenkins and Martin Matz
“Indeed, this book, with the beautiful introduction extracted from the works of Aldous Huxley, might be required reading to those traveling to Margarita Island. Not only does it reveal in initiatory tradition in the past of the same people among whom one is living, the Arimacoa, it signals the loss which this community has & is experiencing.”
–Louise Landes Levi
Bowery Poetry Club Celebration of Ira Cohen
It was a wonderful evening of readings and remembrances at the Bowery Poetry Club to celebrate Ira Cohen’s life and work.
May 14, 2025, hosted by Tate Swindell with readings by
Timothy Baum, Karen Butcher, Lila Dlaboha, Hamid Idrissi, Baba Ben Israel, Shiv Mirabito, Valery Oisteanu, Ondi, Chris Rael & Danny Rosen.
Ira Cohen tribute 5-14-25 Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
A Certain Kind of Wizard Celebration
Please join us to celebrate Ira Cohen in NYC
There will be poetry and poetic remembrances, photographs, film clips, music and more. Refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday May 14th, 2025 at 7pm
Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery, NYC
Thursday May 15th, 2025 at 7pm
The Bunker at 222 Bowery, NYC
Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, Amsterdam, and wherever else he happened to alight in his wanderings. Cohen knew the best and the brightest — William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Vali Myers, Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, and so many others. Filmmaker Jack Smith, Julian Beck and Judith Malina of The Living Theatre were close friends and collaborators on many projects. A Certain Kind of Wizard includes Cohen’s poetry, photos, interviews, and prose writings from his remarkable journals.
A Review of Time Waits
A review of Time Waits: Selected Poems 1956 – 1986 by Martin Matz
“Matz at times comes close to reaching the breath-taking heights that Kaufman achieved in his great works of poetry, especially his final work, The Ancient Rain, but there is something distinctive and slightly haunting about his style. It reaches deep into the cosmos (outer space) and also down into the innermost recesses of the poet’s own self (inner space) and the imagery jumps from one luxuriant image to the next, in a psychedelic ‘feast’ of images that coalesce into a whirlwind, a swirling chiaroscuro of colors, like the colors that grace the cover of this book, that build upon each other, and reflect or refract previous images. The effect is both hypnotic and captivating to the reader who is under its spell.”
–Matthew James Mclaughlin
Solar Hits by Tate Swindell
Solar Hits is the first full length collection of poems by San Francisco poet Tate Swindell, an archivist, poet photographer, and founder of Unrequited Records.
The book launch will be at City Lights on March 13 at 7PM. There will be a brief conversation with Julien Poirier followed by a reading from the book. The event will be streamed by City Lights. You do not need to pay anything to Eventbrite to register for the event.
A Place for Poetry – Three Modern Voices
The Golda Foundation is proud to present:
and extra guest
Danny Rosen!
Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 6 PM
Jefferson Market Library
Willa Cather room on the first floor
425 6th Ave, New York, (212) 243-4334
Lionel Ziprin, The Poet-Magus of the Lower East Side
Lionel Ziprin was a prolific writer, a mystical poet who produced thousands of poems in his time, although you wouldn’t be able to tell that from his published output: In 1990 a small wooden box with ephemera and a flexi-disc was released and 2017 saw the publishing of his book Songs for Schizoid Siblings, there were a few contributions to magazines and that’s it. So it was high time to bring some more attention to Lionel Ziprin.
