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Finding Alene

Posted by | Feb 17, 2010 | ,

Finding Alene–Excerpts by Christina Diamente There is of course no definitive way of knowing a woman who has been dead for almost two decades. Knowing and understanding her in life was equally complicated. Nineteen years...

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Lady Beats

Posted by | Jan 11, 2010 | ,

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...

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Visions of Vollmer

Posted by | Jul 10, 2009 | ,

by David S. Wills In Issue Two of Beatdom, we ran a story about the women of the Beat Generation, and we obviously talked a little about Joan Vollmer. However, we didn’t say enough to do her justice, for she was a fascinating...

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