For Allen Ginsberg

Poetry,

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Gary Snyder

by Levi Asher Monday, July 25, 1994 02:03 pm

You have to be careful writing about Gary Snyder, because he's such a Zen guy you get the feeling anything you write will be vastly inferior to silence.

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Dharma Bums

by Levi Asher Sunday, August 7, 1994 12:52 pm

Levi Asher reviews "Dharma Bums", Jack Kerouac's warm and colorful send-up of American Buddhism.

American Sages: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger

by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:03 am

Appreciating two elder statesmen of cool, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger.

Gary Snyder, Peter Coyote, Joanne Kyger and Huey Lewis: Celebrating Lew Welch

by Levi Asher Wednesday, October 24, 2012 06:50 pm

Huey Lewis speaking about his stepfather, Beat poet Lew Welch

The late Beat Poet Lew Welch is remembered via speeches and songs by Gary Snyder, Peter Coyote, 80s rocker Huey Lewis (Welch's stepson) and others.

Jack Kerouac

by Levi Asher Saturday, July 23, 1994 02:01 pm

Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child on March 12, 1922 in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of French called joual before he learned English. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine.

Ti Jean was an intense and serious child, devoted to Memere (his mother) and constantly forming important friendships with other boys, as he would continue to do throughout his life. He was driven to create stories from a young age, inspired first by the mysterious radio show 'The Shadow,' and later by the fervid novels of Thomas Wolfe, the writer he would model himself after ...

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Bob Kaufman

by Sean Daniel Singer Monday, November 13, 1995 08:19 am

Bob Kaufman was born on April 18, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was, other than Langston Hughes, the greatest jazz poet who ever lived ...

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Ted Joans

by Sean Daniel Singer Friday, January 12, 1996 08:21 am

Ted Joans was born Theodore Jones on July 4, 1928 on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois. His father, a riverboat entertainer, put him off the boat in Memphis at age twelve and gave him a trumpet. He is a painter, a trumpeter, and a poet.

Poetry at the Old Longshoreman’s Hall

by Don Carpenter Friday, September 20, 1996 12:44 pm

Overlooking Fisherman's Whard in San Francisco, site of a joyful beatnik poetry reading in 1964

Novelist Don Carpenter recalls a joyful moment from 1964, during the height of the beatnik/hippie convergence in San Francisco, when he stepped up to organize a spontaneous (and surprisingly large) poetry reading at the Longshoreman's Hall in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, featuring Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalen.

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Sliced Bardo: A William S. Burroughs Memorial

by Levi Asher Friday, November 21, 1997 08:06 pm

Sliced Bardo: A Literary Kicks memorial for William S. Burroughs

A four-part tribute to William S. Burroughs, published shortly after his death, featuring contributions by Lee Renaldo, Robert Creeley, Carolyn Cassady and Patricia Elliot.

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Eyedea: Even Shadows Have Shadows

by Levi Asher Tuesday, October 19, 2010 08:54 pm

Eyedea, the talented rapper from St. Paul, Minnesota, died in his sleep at age 28.

Letters

by Levi Asher Wednesday, November 3, 2010 10:40 pm

The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

Prompted by Tom McCarthy's trendy new novel C, AbeBooks presents a tableau of one-letter (or two-letter) books. It's a lot of fun to look at. Of course, I'm an old school techie, so to me C will always be the title of a classic book by Kernighan and Ritchie.

Philosophy Weekend: The Happiness of Adam Yauch

by Levi Asher Friday, May 4, 2012 09:10 pm

Adam Yauch dancing onstage at the Tibetan Freedom Festival in 1997

In June 1997, I found myself in the middle of an impromptu Buddhist ceremony with a bunch of Tibetan monks and Adam Yauch. A memorial tribute to MCA, the "spiritual Beastie Boy", on the sad day of his death from cancer.

Philosophy Weekend: Ellen Pearlman on Buddhism and the Avant-Garde

by Levi Asher Saturday, May 12, 2012 08:00 pm

Nothing and Everything by Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman's "Nothing and Everything" explores the synchronicity between western Buddhism and avant-garde art in the 20th Century.

Road Drops

by Levi Asher Wednesday, May 23, 2012 07:30 am

How long do we have to wait for the "On The Road" movie to play in theaters in the United States of America?

Lit Comix: The Graphic Canon, Volumes 1 and 2

by Levi Asher Sunday, October 7, 2012 07:37 pm

Graphic Canon book covers, edited by Russ Kick, volumes 1 and 2

Three lit-comix selections from Russ Kick's The Graphic Canon volumes 1 and 2: Emerson Hunt's Inferno, Rebecca Dart's Paradise Lost, Julian Peters' Drunken Boat.