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Snyder, Kerouac, and the Dharma

by Simon Scott | Oct 4, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

The worlds like an endlessfour-dimensionalGame of Go. Riprap, Gary Snyder “All these people,” said...

Specificity: The Secret Brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson

by David S. Wills | Sep 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s protagonist, Nick Carraway, describes Jay Gatsby as...

Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare

by Kirby Olson | Aug 24, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso drunkenly inform...

Insanity in Ginsberg’s and Epstein’s Howl from a Foucauldian Point of View

by Türkü Naz Altınay | Aug 19, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad...

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

by Jessica Clark | Jul 10, 2019 | Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting...

Allen’s Buddhism

by Jacob Rabinowitz | Jun 22, 2019 | Essays | 0 |

The following is an excerpt from Jacob Rabinowitz’s new book, Blame it on Blake: a memoir of dead...

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 | 3 |

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...

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