The final two presentations were given by Weiner’s friend from early on in her adult life, the poet Jerome Rothenberg, and Weiner’s best friend in her later years (1980’s on), the artist Barbara Rosenthal. In his presentation, Rothenberg covered a topic especially sensitive for the gathered, and to the discourse surrounding Weiner’s work at large: the relationship between Weiner’s “transformation” into “clairvoyant” journalist and her use of psychotropic drugs like LSD in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Rothenberg addressed what one friend has called “the elephant in the room” of Hannah Weiner’s legacy in an especially sensitive way. The way he did this was to first present Weiner as he and his wife Diane Rothenberg knew her, before her use of acid. His depiction was of an entirely world-weary soul, yet responsible, professional even in her work designing lingerie. The transformation that occurred in Weiner was no doubt influenced by LSD, but also a response to the vital literary and visual arts communities flourishing Downtown in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Insofar as Weiner did “TOO MUCH ACID” (Weiner’s own words from Clairvoyant Journal) she was, in her own way, a victim of the climate of radical experimentation during the psychedelic era. Inasmuch as Weiner was a gifted, sensitive and educated person, she brought to her LSD trips insights about “the Word” as visible fact among a much wider conversation, a continuum of mainstream and marginal culture workers and artists, what poet Robert Duncan called “ a symposium of the whole.” Appropriately, Rothenberg likened Weiner to William Blake, on whose birthday the St. Mark’s tribute fortuitously fell. Also, appropriately, Rothenberg put Weiner in a line of mystic visionaries including the Kabbalist Jewish mystic, Abraham Albulafia, and the Mexican shaman, Maria Sabrina, who also hallucinated words, in fact dreaming up an entire alphabet. Troubled by the sensational speculations since Weiner’s death about her “transformation” and demise, I and many others who feel close to her person and writings felt relieved by Rothenberg’s address, which directly confronted the problem of Weiner’s “clairvoyance” head-on in a caring way. To close, Rothenberg read a poem triangulating Weiner with Albulafia and Sabrina, paying tribute to all three visionaries through his own shamanistic poetic practice.