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Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

ruth was born in Berlin on June 24th, 1928 -- and what a life she’s had so far! Actually, it could have been very short-lived if she and her parents had not managed to escape from Nazi-Germany via … [Read more...]

Beatnik Shindig! June 26-28, 2015 in San Francisco

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Beatnik Shindig

The Beat Museum's "Beatnik Shindig" to be held in North Beach and at Fort Mason Center is the largest Beat Generation Conference to be held in twenty years. The last big Beat event was organized by … [Read more...]

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler, A.D. Winans, Bob Booker and Neeli Cherkovski

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

The following is from: “ruth weiss and the American Beat movement of the ‘50s and 60’s” by Horst Spandler, published in: ruth weiss, no dancing aloud – lautes tanzen nicht erlaubt. edition exil, … [Read more...]

Six poems by A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Can't Stop the Beat - ruth weiss

Poem for ruth weiss she grooves with time day time, night time be bop jazz time dances with timeless time all rhythm no rhyme birds in flight flap their wings copulate with the wind a … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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