Gary Snyder

Mysteries of The Six Gallery

Sixty-eight years ago today, six poets changed American literature forever with a powerful and now legendary reading at a former…

2 years ago

Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma

The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said Japhy, “they all got white-tiled toilets…

6 years ago

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism that we know today…

8 years ago

Gary Snyder: Heart-Beat – A Diptych

“From a certain point onward there is no turning back.  This is the point that must be reached.” Kafka  …

9 years ago

Buddhists and Dharma Bums

Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at least they popularized it…

9 years ago

Turtle Island: An Eco-Critique of Capitalism

In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an increasingly important issue.…

9 years ago

East Coast Beats vs. West Coast Beats

The Beats as we know them are a New York City phenomena and walk hand in hand with Abstract Expressionism…

10 years ago

Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading

October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that date, in a “run…

10 years ago

The Dharma Bums: Judging a Book by its Cover

On Dave Moore's wonderful Beat Generation Facebook group - a partner to the very active Jack Kerouac group - there…

11 years ago

The Beat Generation at War

  From Beatdom #15 - Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The Beat Generation is often…

11 years ago

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