kenneth rexroth

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

Reconsidering Jack Kerouac a Half-Century Later

Not many prose writers alive (Céline, Genet, a few others) would dare the freedom and intelligence to trust their own…

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

Buddhism and the Beats

Jack Kerouac… “He was the first one I heard chanting the ‘Three Refuges’ in Sanskrit, with a voice like Frank…

19 years ago

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