Philip Willey is one beat motherfucker. His website tells me he was born in England in 1941, but I don't…
Leo is known as a bigot but, as Jack Kerouac writes in the last pages of The Haunted Life i,…
By Kurt Kline In the poetry of Bob Kaufman, the poet is the healer, journeying down into the…
This Sunday, April 20th, Naropa University - which was founded by Tungpa Rinpoche and was America's first accredited Buddhist university…
A couple of days ago, Michael Stipe took the stage to introduce a night of celebrations of the life of…
Here at Beatdom we have always had a fondness for Peter Orlovsky, and were surprised and delighted to hear about…
1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs published Naked Lunch…
Doctor William S. Sax and Bird of Paradise Faust Part Three Sad Catholic childhood as dark nuns weep in rain…
The following is from an interview with Carl Solomon, conducted by John Tytell in 1973. John Tytell's collected interviews (with…
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