In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with Cézanne’s juxtaposition of color: “I suddenly…
‘Sunflower Sutra’ Ginsberg’s ‘Sunflower Sutra’ bursts with a range of vivid imagery, connecting the pastoral with a landscape of urban…
Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet…
William Carlos Williams played an important part in making “Howl” a well-known poem, especially in terms of communication. Indeed, William…
On 12th September, 1947, Allen Ginsberg shipped out as a utility man on a collier, the S.S. John Blair, for…
Tenements absorbed the sun to brick and spread the heat like a steam iron, pressing ideas flat, airless, into our…
In the modern era the sustainability of both our daily lives and global systems has become an increasingly important issue.…
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading - at which Allen Ginsberg first read from his poem,…
October 7th, 1955, was arguably one of the most important dates in American literature. On that date, in a “run…
Larry Beckett is generally best-known as a songwriter, yet probably better known to Beatdom readers as the author of Beat…
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