Poetess and Patriarch
An exploration of female Beat writers and their involvement with the second-wave feminist movement...
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Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee
by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so...
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by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in one anthology as “Poet Priestess,” she is one of the more well-known of these women. My introduction to her large...
Read MoreHelen Weaver Interview
Recent history has seen the women in the life of Jack Kerouac finally bring to public attention...
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Women of the Beat Generation
History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were...
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