There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the name of justice. As a…
Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet…
I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and…
In Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality, Mary Paniccia Carden argues that although the most famous writers…
The moves of Beat women to reclaim bodily freedom and space through performative poetry ‘The woman’s body is the terrain…
“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves. The real communication…
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were a woman.…
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #17: “We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution /…
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American literary tradition. Coming into existence…
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones chronicles a forty year friendship through their correspondence, as well…
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