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A Sweaty, Fun Summer Day Hanging Out In SOHO & THE WEST VILLAGE! NYC :)! I Stopped By The Very Cool & Artistic MERCER STREET BOOKS, A Few Short Blocks Away From WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK & NYU In The West Village, Manhattan! :)! Thank You MERCER STREET BOOKS For Carrying My Latest Book Of Poetry PERIPHERAL VIEW: SOUL SONGS FOR THE STROBE LIGHT GENERATION 2020-2025!!! I Signed & Personalized A Cooy For Them To Sell Today. So If You Are In NYC, & Close To Greenwich Village, Stop In, & Buy A Copy, & Show Support To A Great Independent Bookstore!!! & Your Friendly Neighborhood Poet :)!
I Was Also Gifted a Very Cool Book LITTLE BULLETS By JOHN KRUTH! :)!
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – SWEET JANE –  

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BILLY LAMONT Spontaneous LIVE – New Summer EP Release ORIGINAL_NEGATIVE Listening Party Last Night On FB LIVE!!! 🙂! ❤!

You can Watch on Poet Billy Lamont FB page or this Facebook LIVE link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GKufX44Zn/?mibextid=wwXIfr&direct_share_include_copy=1&fb_entity_type=newsfeed

Enjoy! :)!
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BILLYLAMONT.NET Had 694,872 WEBSITE VIEWS, Over Two Thirds Of A Million In July For The Second Month In A Row!!! <3!!! PRAISE GOD <3+!!!!!!!! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE VISITED!!! <3!!! – THE BILLY LAMONT CAMP and I ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND INTEREST!!! We Were Rejoicing About Having A Half A Million Or More Views Since My Latest Book PERIPHERAL VIEW: SOUL SONGS FOR THE STROBE LIGHT GENERATION 2020-2025 Was Published In December 2025, & Now With My New Summer EP Release “ORIGINAL_NEGATIVE” Released On The 4Th Of July – For AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY To Have Hit The New High Mark Of 2/3 Of A Million Views For Two Consecutive Months Has Me/Us Through The Roof Into The Heavenlies!!!!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. LOVE Love YOU ALL!!!!!!!<3!!!!!!!
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The most deeply moving part of experiemcing DUBLIN, IRELAND for a few days was visiting KILMAINHAM GAOL a former prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum that is a crucial site for understanding Irish history, particularly the struggle for independence, as it held and executed many leaders of rebellions, including the 1916 Easter Rising.

A few things that struck me the most was that they put starving men and women, including children begging for food in the streets, sometimes without parents, and one child was even three years old when put in this prison to clean up the streets. Heartbreaking stuff.

Prisoners of note were 14 rebels from 1916 Easter Rising, 7 of which signed the proclamation of independance of the Republic of Ireland. There were 4 eighteen-nineteen year old young men that revolted as Ireland was focused on fighting in World War I, that were executed in this prison (the exact spot is where there is a wood cross in my photographs) and when word spread on what happened this event was the catalyst for Ireland to fight and gain their liberty and freedom as a Republic in 1922.

Another interesting note is that Eamonn De Valeria, who was in there in 1920, was born in NYC so an American citizen. He was a rebel but not executed due to him being an American citizen. He went on to become President De Valera, President Of Ireland.

It was deeply impactful to sit in the prison Church Chapel where two inmates of Kilmainham Jail – JOSEPH PLUNKET and GRACE GIFFORD got married and were able to spend 10 minutes together supervised by guards, the day before JOSEPH PLUNKET was executed. I visited and took photos of Grace and Joseph’s cells from the outside. GRACE had a mural she painted of the Virgin Mary inside here cell that I tried to photograph through the cell door peep hole.

ROD STEWART sings a beautiful version of the song GRACE, written by The Dubliners, about this story of Joseph Plunket and Grace Gifford. Rod Stewart visited the jail before he recorded the song GRACE. Song Link: https://youtu.be/HQQ1LP5rCOM?is=N2FWVXx8bq45qjPa

Kilmainham Jail is singularly the most historic place in ireland. I am grateful that I was able to visit with my loved friend PAT BUTLER.
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BILLY LAMONT’S NEW SUMMER EP RECORDINGS – ORIGINAL_NEGATIVE – TO BE RELEASED ON THE 4TH OF JULY HOLIDAY
IN CELEBRATION OF AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY!

“original_negative is a summer EP that will be released on the 4th of July holiday, in celebration of America’s 250th Birthday, because of my love for the “We The People” United States of America, that is a Republic, and that was founded upon this amazing idea! This EP is also for all the “We The People” Citizens of The World inclusively with all love, life and peace from an American Poet,” Billy Lamont said.

Billy Lamont is a NY based American poet, an experimental multimedia performance poet, recording artist, and spoken word artist, with a reformer spirit, and an international reach. He has been interviewed and featured on national television a number of times, and he has toured and performed multiple dates as part of Lollapalooza Festival for three different years.

Lamont’s new EP titled original_negative is to be released on the 4th of July holiday in celebration of America’s 250th Birthday! It is a powerful and timely companion to his latest book of poetry peripheral view: soul songs for the strobe light generation 2020-2025, that was published in December 2025 and enjoying a lot of success. peripheral view: soul songs for the strobe light generation 2020-2025 is a successor to Lamont’s earlier above ground poetry collections: The Gallery Of Light, strobe light generation, and Words Ripped From A Soul Still Bleeding: Poems For The Future Edition, as now original_negative is to his most acclaimed albums and EPs : Into The 21st Century, billy lamont with the peculiar people, the gallery of light, and Beyond Babylon.

original_negative is an EP of Lamont’s passionate and raw performance poetry with electronic music by Luke Haughwout, expressed as soulful, minimalist, sacred pop art, in it’s recordings, as well as the graphic design by Christopher “Circuit” Kelly, with a downtown NYC flavor.

Lamont said, “This ep’s theme of personal freedom, amid growing concerns about oppression of human rights of ‘We The People’ Citizens of America and The World, is from a perspective that major business corporations and governments, are using authoritarian overreach into everyday people’s personal lives, and to co-opt governments, to make even greater financial riches. Also, the point of view is that this is happening from all sides to an extreme, sometimes in clear view, most times secretly, to serve the 1% rich, and to gain total control over populations locally and globally, in our age of globalization. This combined with dangerous, dehumanizing new technological advances, such as artificial intelligence, that need serious and fast emergency regulations, is the backdrop for the poetry and music.”

From the beginnings of his career, the brilliant and inspirational Mike Peters of The Alarm and the legendary Allen Ginsberg.showed love and support for Lamont’s work by collaborating on the title track of his first EP album Into The 21st Century, that was a benefit for Teen Challenge, and that contained an audio sample of an early Ginsberg recital of his iconic Beat Generation epic poem Howl.

Lamont was awarded a Guinness World Record for his poetry performance contribution to a benefit song for Love Hope Strength Foundation and those fighting cancer, that was recorded by LHS Co-Founder Mike Peters of The Alarm in 2014, and was the ‘longest officially released song ever.’ This song titled The Scriptures was written as a seed of peace for Muslims, Christians and Jews in The Holy Land.

“The original_negative ep’s hopeful message emphasizes the liberty in human imagination, soulful intuition, in relational community, and that we all have THE POWER TO DREAM!,” Lamont concluded.

The EP’s hard copy CD linear notes say that it is dedicated to Peter Gabriel’s brilliant, inspiring artistry and to WITNESS, the organization he founded to defend human rights around the world using the power of video and technology –witness.org

Poet Billy Lamont, The Other Perspective Media/Management: Telephone: 631-981-4780; Email: TOPm777@gmail.com; Official Website: billylamont.net; Facebook: www.facebook.com/poet.lamont; Instagram: www.instagram.com/poetbillylamont; Youtube.channel: The Other Perspective Media, Billy Lamont and Poet Billy Lamont albums with music can be purchased at: Amazon Music, and streamed on: Spotify and Apple Music.

On Sunday, I had the honor of meeting the beautiful, brilliant, soulful AMY GOODMAN <3! of DEMOCRACY NOW and amazing Director and Human CARL DEAL (in photo together with me) as well as wonderful economist RICHARD WOLFF after the screening of the AMY GOODMAN documentary of her magnificent and inspiring life so far – STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! – @stealthisstoryplease StealThisStory.org, and post-film Q&A at IFC Center in the village in NYC! :)!
*PLEASE ATTEND THIS FILM SCREENING WITH Q&A AS IT PREMIERES IN YOUR CITY TO SUPPORT “WE THE PEOPLE” & INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM IN THIS IMPORTANT TIMING!!! THANK YOU! <3
A Special THANK YOU To PHILIP PAPAELIAS For The Excellent Photos With AMY GOODMAN!

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billylamont.net had approximately 2/3 of a million (665,761) website views for the first time in April 2026!!!!!!!! THANK YOU MY FAMILY OF FRIENDS FOR YOUR NEW INTEREST & GREAT SUPPORT that has coincided with the release of my new poetry book – PERIPHERAL VIEW: SOUL SONGS FOR THE STROBE LIGHT GENERATION 2020-2025!!!
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY LOVERS INCLUDING THOSE THAT ARE SINGLE!!! ❤! My Romantic Poem For Your Valentine’s Day –
“sonnet for the sea” ❤ ❤ ❤ 🙂!
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P.S. Inapiration for this poem was not only William Shakespeare, this Sir William of The Valentine Lol! :)! was inspired by imagining a dream soulmate lasting LOVE, & also GOD/JESUS LOVE as a reality like St John Of The Cross poems. 🙂 <3!

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/P1L4Sb2wNag?si=KPpMbwnEA-ImlThB

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NEW PERFORMANCE VIDEO WORLD PREMIERE NOW!!! – BILLY LAMONT recites „peripheral view/flattery 666/emotional vampires” from his just published new book of poems – PERIPHERAL VIEW: SOUL SONGS FOR THE STROBE LIGHT GENERATION 2020-2025 In SU POLO’s Wonderfully Created Artwork Atmoshere at The Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza that takes place every January 1 in Manhattan. This year’s event, the 29th edition, took place at the Westbeth Community Room, in the West Village. This year’s theme was “Ride the Avalanche.”
You Can Watch At This Link: https://youtu.be/RJJMaKGVdvU?si=hOkLSY_BWke49_zv

*A HUGE THANK YOU to CHRIS ICONICIDE that did such excellent work with capturing this live moment on video. He did a great
job videoing the entire event that can be seen in its entirety on his ICONICIDE YouTube Channel. THANK YOU CHRIS!!! You Rock Brother! [billy lamont]

The Alternative began on New Year’s Day in 1995, and quickly became one of the most popular events on the city’s poetry and literary scene. It was originally conceived and organized by founder Bruce Weber, who kept the event running at various lower Manhattan venues for many years. For the 2020 event and since, Bruce passed the baton to Pete Dolack, who now serves as the event’s coordinator, ably assisted by a staff of writers, designers and curators. The Alternative, which continues to be free to the public, features poets, prose writers, monologists, musicians, dancers and other performers in an eight-hour showcase that ranges from some of New York’s most seasoned talents to emerging stars. More than 150 performers are scheduled every year.

THANK YOU PETE DOLACK & DIDI
CHAMPAGNE!!! ❤ ❤

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THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!! ❤ I Am Very Grateful That In JANUARY, As Well As December, That I Received A HALF MILLION VISITS To My BILLYLAMONT.NET Website!!! PRAISE JAH & JESUS!!!!!!!! ❤ +
It Means A Lot To Get This Great News On February 1st because February 1st I Privately Celebrate A Transformative Spiritual Experience I Had As A Young Man As Praying In My Bedroom At My Parent’s House at 2-3am. ❤!!!

I Am Also Very Thankful That My Sunday, January 25,2026 – „This Note’s For You!” – BILLY LAMONT’s second LIVE reading from my just published new book of poems – PERIPHERAL VIEW: SOUL SONGS FOR THE STROBE LIGHT GENERATION 2020-2025 – BROADCAST LIVE For my FB Family Of Friends has been a SUCCESS With 728 Views as of a few night’s ago (but view count has disappeared from FB since then due to some glitch so IDK what it is now.)🙂! ❤!

STAY SAFE & WARM With These Dangerous Snow & Ice Storms & Bitter Cold Temperatures Sweeping Across America, & The Other Kind Of Dangerous Ice in Minneapolis! Really Sad Situation. 😞

You Can Watch My Intimate Recital Video Here:
FB LIVE Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1N1gTwaDNs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

YOUTUBE Archived Version Because It Will Expire From FB: https://youtu.be/Pkd3N6FKR1s?si=EhdszNbSN8Z7lxVJ

THANK YOU AGAIN!!! I APPRECIATE YOU ALL!!! ❤ ❤ ❤

LOVE, LIFE & PEACE,
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