Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now legendary reading at a former…
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The Beat Movement scared the hell out of America. After all, the Beats were dirty, they were obscene, they…
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American literary tradition. Coming into existence…
On this blog, we've previously discussed the surprisingly difficult question of what the Beat Generation was, and later, what the…
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