Allyson Behnke: "This past weekend Anne Waldman came to Washington, DC to celebrate the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition of 'Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg' (on view in the West Building through September 16), and to perform Allen Ginsberg’s historic and culturally iconic poem 'Howl'...I was lucky enough to tag along with her on a tour of Allen Ginsberg’s exhibit led by Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, on Friday morning. Later, Saturday afternoon, I had the pleasure of interviewing her."

Inside Higher Ed: "On Tuesday, a federal judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University to kick out a master's student who declined to counsel gay clients in an affirming way -- as required by the university program and counseling associations. The judge found that the university was enforcing a legitimate curricular requirement -- namely that counseling students learn to work with all kinds of clients in ways that did not judge their values or orientations."

Washington Post: "55 years after the fact, culture still cries out for Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl.'"

"Founded in 1967 by Rev. James Cleveland, the Gospel Music Workshop of America is an annual convention bringing together people who love gospel music from America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean including a wide range of many faiths. With a membership of thousands, the meeting is a week long gathering including academic classes, evangelism and outreach, nightly music services, showcases, radio and television executives and promoters, exhibits and seminars."

The Naropa Institute's website, 1996.

Bangor Daily News: "ABC Children’s Center, a long- time fixture in the Bangor/Brewer community for the past thirty-three years is under new ownership and academic leadership. Erica Schweikert, a Bangor native and graduate of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado will be co-owning the Wilson Street facility."

...at the Allen Ginsberg Project blog.

"A Western Woman’s Journey as Painter of the Lha: The Noble Conquerors."

"The Western Waters Digital Library (WWDL) provides free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States. These collections have been made available by research libraries belonging to the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) and other academic library partners. The WWDL is a valuable resource for researchers, policy makers, scholars, Native American tribes, professionals working in various fields, and others interested in contemporary and historic water issues."

Via Love, Me Boutique:

"I'm inspired by the magic that is created in a theatre space...my paintings often defy still life traditions by releasing conventional notions of weight and space...with marks on a surface which can animate a space in so many different ways. I often explore for months, or even years, with the same shapes."

Daily Camera: "Appt, an adjunct professor at Naropa University, said he was initially drawn to contemplative meditation as a way to take a more active role in his faith instead of acting as a spectator. In the community where he grew up, he sometimes felt as if he was only watching a rabbi and cantor pray during services, not participating in the services himself."

Via The Edge of the American West:

"Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them. Sean Flynn re-creates their long, harrowing, heart-pounding night."

"The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, or the Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum has partners from 22 Federal agencies as well as partners in private research organizations."

"Welcome to Creating Communities! Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, History Colorado, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and University of Denver Penrose Library has brought together a number of historic resources and digitized archival materials.

We've gathered information about seven of Denver's historic neighborhoods in the Neighborhood Histories section of the site. We've mapped a number of Building History resources on a Google map, and if you just feel like browsing around, we have a vast collection of digitized archival materials in our Collections."

Huffington Post: "Irrationality and Anti-Muslim Stereotyping."

Via the Allen Ginsberg Project, Ellen Pearlman writes:

"Zen Buddhism, admittedly, is not my specialty, for my real training is in South East Asian Vipassana and Tibetan tantric meditation, which I have pursued for the past 35 years. During my research, the more I read Dr. Suzuki's work, the more I wanted to know about Suzuki the man...To help answer my questions, I located Dr. Taira Kemmyo Sato of the Three Wheels Organization in the U.K., who studied with Dr. Suzuki until the day he collapsed and died of an intestinal obstruction at age 96 in Japan. He suggested I get in touch with Mihoko Okamura, Dr. Suzuki's secretary for the last fifteen years of his life, now living in Kyoto, Japan."

Longmont Times-Call: "Local missionaries spread the word one door at a time."

A blog about "Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, and whatever else we might fancy" by "three infantrymen" and "two grad students."

Inhabitat: "Don’t Miss a Shot With This Solar-Powered Camera Strap."

"On July 1, 2010, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of W.S. Merwin as the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry...This guide compiles links to resources on W.S. Merwin throughout the Library of Congress Web site, as well as links to external Web sites that include features on his life or selections of his work."