“I want to be considered a jazz poet . . .” i Don’t miss Mark Murphy’s 1981 recording “Bop for…
“They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all…
by Paul Arendt Jack Kerouac’s surroundings invariably affected his writing style. Narrator Leo Percepied’s voice in The Subterraneans reflected…
At the turn of the 1960s, Jack Kerouac found himself in a profound state of limbo, the climax of an…
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by Christina Diamente No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering And so beautifully her soul…
by Hannah Withrow 1 I begin my immersion into female Beat writers fittingly with Diane di Prima; referred to in…
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