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A Lady’s Choice: A reflection on Diane di Prima’s “Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion”

by Alyssa Dearborn | Apr 29, 2019 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet simply...

The Great Writing Caper

by Michael Stutz | Apr 21, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

William S. Burroughs often suggested that one’s dreams are a valuable target for the writer...

Little Women

by Joyce Johnson | Apr 17, 2019 | Essays | 2 |

I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and Join the...

An Excerpt from World Citizen

by David S. Wills | Apr 3, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

The following is a short excerpt from Part 2 of David S. Wills’ recent publication, World...

From Fitzgerald’s Green Light to Thompson’s Wave

by David S. Wills | Sep 27, 2018 | Essays | 2 |

Hunter S. Thompson is one of those literary figures who, like the Beat Generation writers, divides...

‘The Personal is Political’[1]

by Jennie Copeland | Aug 26, 2018 | Essays | 0 |

The moves of Beat women to reclaim bodily freedom and space through performative poetry ‘The...

Allen Ginsberg in Asia

by David S. Wills | May 12, 2018 | Essays | 0 |

Asia had long been a source of inspiration and fascination for Allen Ginsberg by the time he...

Mechanics And Poetics: William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg

by Alexandre Ferrere | Mar 24, 2018 | Beatdom #18, Beatdom Content, Essays | 1 |

William Carlos Williams played an important part in making “Howl” a well-known poem, especially in...

The Mystery of Allen’s Ginsberg’s “Reading Bai Juyi”

by David S. Wills | Mar 16, 2018 | Essays | 0 |

On December 5th, 1984, while laid up sick in Shanghai, Allen Ginsberg wrote one of his...

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

by Sean Negus | Mar 10, 2018 | Beatdom #18, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

The 1950s in America was not a period known for its religious diversity. The spiritual consumerism...

“A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes

by Katie Oates | Feb 25, 2018 | Beatdom #18, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves....

4 Important Travel Destinations for the Beat Generation

by David S. Wills | Dec 12, 2017 | Essays | 0 |

The Beats were, in many ways, an international literary movement. Although in defining the Beat...

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