James Penner
Assistant Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico and Contributing Writer at Los Angeles Review of Books
Bylines:@LAReviewofbooks, @AltaJournal, @lucidnewssite; author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: the Rhetoric of Masculinity and Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | James Penner |Ed Prideaux
In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the converted barn's main room, Elizabethan ballads drifted through smoke-thick air as someone scattered chrysanthemum petals across a sheepskin rug. The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
lucid.news | James Penner
Ernesto Londoño would probably be the first to admit that he was an unlikely candidate for an ayahuasca transformation experience. He had no experience with any psychedelics, and he did not really consider himself to be a “spiritual” person. Londoño’s anti-drug stance was a byproduct of growing up in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s—the height of the War on Drugs.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
substack.com | James Penner
James Penner is the author Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years and Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture. He is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books and Lucid News.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
lucid.news | James Penner
When I was living in Puerto Rico in 2012, I used to look forward to receiving the early print issues of Psychedelic Press. Each issue featured vibrant works of psychedelic art in black and white and in color. In those early editions, I was introduced to the work of Mike Jay, Andy Roberts, Ben Sessa, David Luke, Ross Heaven (not an alias), Nikki Wyrd, Henrik Dahl and many others who would eventually be associated with the psychedelic renaissance.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
altaonline.com | James Penner
Thom Gunn’s death has long seemed an enigmatic tragedy. In 1992, the poet published The Man with Night Sweats, a remarkable collection that empathetically documented the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. The first-person poems there represented a departure because Gunn had, to that point, typically avoided making confessional work. The book won a host of prizes in England and the United States, and Gunn was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant.
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