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Photographer who documented regulars at the ‘Beat hotel’ in Paris including Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs

His drawings from the early ’60s in “craggy, neurotic, ruthlessly precise ink” are on view in a remarkable museum debut at the Morgan Library.

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, artist, activist and teacher who navigated countercultural landscapes of both the Beats and the Diggers and published more than 40 books of poetry, essays and autobiography, including Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) and Recollections of My Life as a Woman (2001). di Prima was on the faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 1989 when Lisa Janssen was enrolled there. di Prima’s death in late October inspired this poetic ...

A new collection of Gregory Corso's plays is out on Tough Poets Press Jan. 4. PKM spoke with publisher Richard Schober about Corso’s legacy.

After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscripts for William S. Burroughs. His mind awash in guilt and self-doubt, and his body with DT’s, he tried to concentrate on his Buddhistic disciplines and abstain from all temptations. That regimen fell apart in Tangier, which turned into a nightmarish cycle of excess and illness. Kerouac scholar Paul M...

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Jack Kerouac was a central figure in what historians call the Beat movement – a cultural renaissance that celebrated poetry, jazz and a rejection of materialism. Had he lived, Kerouac would have been 100 years old this month. His fans plan to mark the occasion with – among other things – a presentation live and online from the Arts Center in Orange. Sandy Hausman talked with two Virginia scholars who are taking part.

HEDI EL KHOLTI: A lot of the obituaries written about Sylvère expressed the notion that he didn’t write a lot, or enough—that he regretted not having written The Book. McKenzie Wark, in her beautiful obituary for New Left Review, talked about Sylvère having written other writers instead. I love the sentiment, but I almost want to disagree. As I was reorganizing my bookshelf this week, I kept finding things Sylvère wrote. Just stumbling on them. There’s one in the 1997 ArtCenter publicat...

Yeager’s work spanned more than six decades, many styles, and several nations around the world. January 17, 2022….Ira Yeager passed away peacefully at his home in Calistoga, California, on January 5, 2022 at age 83, in the presence of close friends and secure in the knowledge that he was well-loved, much

Pull My Daisy 1959 Film Still The Lower East Side Heritage Film Series at Seward Park Library has a fun line-up this month.  This Tuesday they will focus on “Bubbies & Beats.” On the program: (1959, 29 min., 16mm) “Friday morning in the universe…” is the opening line of Jack Kerouac’s improvisational narration of a day in the life of the Beat poets. In a Bowery loft, a railyard worker plays host to the Beat poets, a visiting Bishop, his sister and mother. Awarded the first prize f...