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  • 6.1: Photography
    • 6.1.1: Photos By Ginsberg
    • 6.1.2: Photos by Friends
      • 6.1.2.1: Early Years
      • 6.1.2.2: 1950s
      • 6.1.2.3: 1960s
        • 6.1.2.3.1: Thelonious Monk 1960
        • 6.1.2.3.2: SS America March 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.3: Man Ray 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.4: Maurice Girodias & Peter Orlovsky Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.5: Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.6: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky Paris 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.7: Jacques Stern in St Tropez 1961
        • 6.1.2.3.8: Bidding Peter Farewell
        • 6.1.2.3.9: New Delhi 1962
        • 6.1.2.3.10: Dharamsala 1962
        • 6.1.2.3.11: Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Robin Blaser 1963
        • 6.1.2.3.12: Allen Ginsberg and Lew Welch 1963
        • 6.1.2.3.13: Nicanor Parra Havana 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.14: Miguel Grinberg, Cuba 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.15: City Lights 1963

        • Current page is 6.1.2.3.16: King of May 1965

        • 6.1.2.3.17: Prague 1965 spy photo
        • 6.1.2.3.18: Jan Zábrana Prague 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.19: Barbara Rubin London 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.20: Basil Bunting 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.21: Barbara Rubin, Ginsberg's 39th Birthday
        • 6.1.2.3.22: Berkeley Poetry Conference 1965
        • 6.1.2.3.23: Peace Eye Bookstore
        • 6.1.2.3.24: Passaic Falls 1966
        • 6.1.2.3.25: Human Be In 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.26: Human Be In 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.27: Spoleto Festival 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.28: Spoleto Festival 1967 Detained at Spoleto Festival
        • 6.1.2.3.29: Ezra Pound, Portofino 1967
        • 6.1.2.3.30: Burroughs, Genet & Hoffman Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.31: Burroughs, Genet, Southern etc. Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.32: Burroughs, Genet, Southern etc. Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.33: Genet and Ginsberg Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.34: Genet, Ginsberg, Southern, Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.35: Ed Sanders, Chicago 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.36: Rajat Neogy 1968
        • 6.1.2.3.37: Cherry Valley 1969
        • 6.1.2.3.38: Apostolic Studios Recording Blake
        • 6.1.2.3.39: Herbert Huncke Cherry Valley Farm
        • 6.1.2.3.41: Gregory Corso and Nanao Sakaki Santa Fe
      • 6.1.2.4: 1970s
      • 6.1.2.5: 1980s
      • 6.1.2.6: 1990s
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Allen Ginsberg being crowned King of May, Prague,  May 1, 1965.  Only a few days later he was expelled from Czechoslovakia for among other things his "sexual theories, " and put on a plane to London. During this flight he wrote his famous poem "Kral Majales."  c. Allen Ginsberg Estate. licensing >>

Read Prague Post story by Darrell Jónsson >> 

and Prague Post story "Ginsberg Returns to the City of his Brief Reign" >>

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