Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat, airless, into our…
An Overview of LeRoi Jones’ Greatest Commentary on the Struggle of the Black Man and Racial Relations in Post-World War…
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones chronicles a forty year friendship through their correspondence, as well…
The Beat Generation found itself mystified by the black culture of the time. This mystification granted them agency in manifesting…
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #15: the WAR issue. Most of the writers and artists to…
Yesterday, on 9th January, Amiri Baraka passed away at the age of 79. He was an influential and highly controversial…
This interview originally appeared in Beatdom #12 - the CRIME issue. You can purchase it on Amazon and Kindle. Amiri…
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so beautifully her soul…
“‘Disgusting,’ they said . . . ‘Pornographic’ . . . ‘Un-American trash’ . . . ‘Unpublishable’ . . . Well,…
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in…
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