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Imaginary Beat Generation postage stamp images, created for Literary Kicks in the mid 1990s.

A look back at Harold Pinter's great play 'The Birthday Party', which was savaged by critics when it opened in 1958.

Michael Norris describes his first taste of a forbidden "literary" drink, absinthe, which has recently become available in some places after decades of a bad reputation.

Chapter 20 of Levi Asher's Silicon Alley memoir. Spring/Summer 1998: LitKicks gets nominated for a Webby Award but is going nowhere fast ... Content is king vs. content is dead ... Creative frustrations ... Hedgehogs and foxes and indie publishing mentors.

Chapter 36 of Levi Asher's Silicon Alley memoir. Spring/Summer 2000: An article in Barron's magazine kicks off the dot-com stock crash ... Share prices plummet and an entire industry begins to fall apart.

Chapter 37 of Levi Asher's memoir of the Internet industry: Fall/Winter 2000: After the crash, a destroyed industry gathers its resources ... Mentoring sessions with Candice Carpenter ... Initial plans for LitKicks 2.0 ... The Mets in the World Series ... A confusing election night ... An unexpected turn of fate.

Introducing "Philosophy Weekend", a new blog series on Litkicks,

In the middle of the journey of the life we share together, I became lost in the woods and could not find the correct path.

About the Literary Kicks website.

"Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose", Jack Kerouac's 30-point program for writers.

In September 2012, I launched a new version of this blog using Drupal 7 and HTML5. Here's how it went.

Eleven years ago, a Litkicks reader posted a suggestion: could I create a free poetry board on this site? I thought it sounded like fun, and thus Action Poetry was born. 21,000 poems later, what should the next version of Action Poetry be? We're asking for new ideas.

An open poetry thread for November 6, 2012, election day in the United States of America.

I'm psyched to be included in an impressive series of interviews about the Beat Generation conducted by Michael Limnios at Blues @ Greece, a Greek web publication devoted to underground music and culture

We can all use some poetry right now. Whether we're writing it or reading it, we can all use some.