HAPPY BIRTHDAY

June 3, 1926 Allen Ginsberg (wikipedia) born
in Newark, New Jersey. (1926-1997)
Beat poet, activist, &, according the FBI
he was considered an "Internal Subversive-Cuba" risk and branded in his 3-foot high FBI file, as a displayer of anti-American sympathies. He was kicked out of Cuba & Czechoslovakia for
chanting to the Comminist Cops.
Allen Ginsberg's FBI file
Allen Ginsberg (wikipedia bio)
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June 6, 1935 ~ Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tibetan spiritual leader

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”~  Dalai Lama XIV
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June 7, 1946 ~ Vince Storti: Graduated from Cal Berkeley; His poetry and art was included in the San Francisco Peace and Hope anthology. In addition, his work can be found on the Parisian online literary journal Levure Literaire, as well as.locally in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. He was the editor and publisher of the excellent anthology, North Coast Literary Review and served on the board of Alameda Island Poets. Vince also published 2 book of poems, and is greatly missed and fondly remembered by all who knew him.
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June 25, 1903 ~ George Orwell born as Eric Blair, in Motihari, Bengal, India.
His first book, Down & Out in Paris &
London, relates his near-destitution while struggling to become a writer.The biting satire of Communist ideology, The Animal Farm,followed his horrendous experiences with the Stalinists, especially in the Spanish Revolution .
Then on June 6, 1949, George Orwell's 1984 is published. 25,000 copies are printed, with 23,000 selling within four months.
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GONE BEYOND

June 3, 2009 ~ Bill Witherup, Seattle poet, playwright and anti nuclear activist, age 73. Bill wrote 10 books and 2 plays.and was founder of Debs Labor Ensemble.Bill Witherup
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June 6, 1982 ~ Kenneth Rexroth was a poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement He was the founder of the San Francisco Libertarian Circle & later involved in the Beat movement, a literary period that evolved in the 1950's & 60's.and with the readings & events at the Cellar jazz club.
He died in Santa Barbara, age 77. He was there for the 2nd literary renaissance of the 1920's that occurred in Chicago.

Byron (Alton) Hunt ~ artist, poet, filmmaker, Mail Art enthusiast, mentor, spiritual advisor and benefactor to artists and poets.
(Jan 19 1905 ~  June 12 1993)

Love is an illusion that makes
Your dreams come true.
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June 25, 2005 ~ Chet Helms died in San Francisco at age 62.  To this day, when I think of Chet Helms I picture him , tall and lean and smiling at the top to the stairs greeting us as we entered the Avalon Ballroom , the most enjoyable and to me most comfortable of all the hippie dance halls yet to come. Chet Helms and the free concerts in Golden Gate Park, those days of the Summer of Love live on in my heart. Chet was the real deal , a true hippie man!  
The Day Chet Helms Died , a poem by Allen Cohen
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June 26, 2002 ~Born in Portland Oregon, Philip Whalen died in San Francisco, age 78.
He had close to the Beat generation. He had met Gary Snyder and Lew Welch and while attending Reed College on the GI Bill, and graduated in 1951. He read at the famous in 1955 that marked the launch of the West Coast Beats into the public eye. He moved into the San Francisco Zen Center in 1972.and lead the Hartford Street Zen Center until
ill health forced him to retire.
Zen Fable for Philip Whalen Roshi by Jerry Ferraz
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