Gregory Corso Archives

Daddy’s Girl

by Vincent Zangrillo | Sep 27, 2019 | Beatdom #19, Beatdom Content, Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry | 0 |

Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least...

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...

The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals

by David S. Wills | Sep 10, 2017 | Essays | 0 |

The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...

The Beats in Greece

by David S. Wills | Aug 24, 2017 | Essays | 0 |

As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...

I’m Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg’s Photographs

by Katie Oates | Mar 23, 2017 | Beatdom #17, Beatdom Content, Essays | 0 |

“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” – Jacques Lacan Introduction: The...

Review: The Best Minds of My Generation

by David S. Wills | Dec 30, 2016 | Reviews | 1 |

There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...

Sarpedon: A Play by Gregory Corso

by David S. Wills | Jun 30, 2016 | Beat News | 0 |

Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other...

The Beat Generation at War

by David S. Wills | Sep 13, 2014 | Beatdom #15, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 2 |

From Beatdom #15 – Available now on Amazon as a print and Kindle publication: The...

American Mutants Spawned in the Bunker

by Marc Olmsted | May 17, 2014 | Beatdom #14, Beatdom Content, Features | 0 |

Originally published in Beatdom #14, and excerpted from the forthcoming memoir/scrapbook,...

Pulling Our Daisy: The Illusion of Spontaneity

by David S. Wills | Apr 11, 2014 | Beatdom #14, Beatdom Content, Essays, Features | 0 |

1959 was an important year in Beat Generation history. It was the year that William S. Burroughs...

Call for Submissions: Beatdom #15

by David S. Wills | Mar 25, 2014 | Beatdom Updates, Features | 0 |

The Beat Generation, it seems, dominated American culture between two major wars. The history...

Exiled on Beat Street

by Daryl Marc Clifford | Feb 17, 2014 | Essays | 0 |

In 1957 Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky were in the midst of the obscenity trials in the US...

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