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For Eileen Myles (New Generation Beat)
He licked his lips but not at me. I watched his eyes walk by, glazedly, hanging their thumbs on their belt loops oh so casual. We had only just arrived and he …{read more}
Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone
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Alleycats and Beatsters, a collection of essays by British writer Kenton Crowther, explores what it means to be Beat, the nature of hipness, and the poets, writers and hipsters who orbited the Beats, either closely or from a distance. …{read more}
Long-Sleeve White Collared Shirt
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Self Portrait
To Ginsberg
Don’t read into this, Allen. I just want to talk.
I’m listening to Vietnam protest songs,
meditating through my anxiety and my need for approval
from executives and peers.
I’m conflicted.
No one drinks beer on …{read more}
The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
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America, mid-twentieth century. Wearied by civilization, excesses and ornamentation, complications and. All precursors to extinction: The drone of war, the machinery of death, the atomic bomb, crew cuts, grey flannel, and hydrogen jukeboxes. The Beats were the unholy and battered, ...{read more}
Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee
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Lawrence FerlinghettiMarch 11, 1987
Taken in his office above City Lights Bookstore (shaped like an arrowhead bisecting Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley), Ferlinghetti spends more time in his painting studio at this point in his life. A quiet, …{read more}
Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (’05)
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A horn call sounded the start of the 50th anniversary celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s first public reading of his masterpiece Howl, on this occasion, Oct. 7, 2005 at Skylight Books in Los Feliz Village in Los Angeles. “Howl” was …{read more}