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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 for Best Experimental Film for 1959 at the San Francisco Festival, the film is a “portrait of the i...

Gary Kamiya April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 9:29 am Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Bookstore, led a fight to change the name of Adler Place to Jack Kerouac Alley. City Lights Bookstore is now at Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Photo: Scott Sommerdorf, The Chronicle 1987 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an essential part of San Francisco’s literary scene from 1953, the year he and Peter Martin opened City Lights Pocket Book Shop, to  Feb. 22, 2021, when he died at the patriarchal age of 101. Not even Herb Caen, ...

Pixabay / Pexels In honor of National Poetry Month this April, Sounds Good will present special programming Mondays beginning April 5th at 11 am. These programs from PRX will honor significant poetry contributions of the last 200 years from Plath to Whitman, Dickenson to Kerouac.  See WKMS' National Poetry Month programming below: Monday, April 5th at  The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Big Read Documentary  Emily Dickinson is not only one of the supreme lyric poets of American literature. She has also come to symbolize the purest kind of artistic vocation. Not merely unrecognized but ...

click to enlarge I had a visitor to my office recently from out of town. As I rarely receive guests anymore, it was quite a treat, especially given that I got to show off our new digs in the Fuller Building, a renovated shirt factory here in Midtown Kingston that's smart in that industrial chic way. As we sat in the luxurious confines of the Place Where the Magic Happens (aka my office), my visitor asked after the state of Kingston. (Rest assured we were masked, gloved, gowned, and double-bagged.) While she didn't ...

John Wieners photographed in Detroit, Mich., in 1966. (Photo by Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) During the last three decades of his life, the poet John Wieners lived in a one-bedroom walkup at 44 Joy Street, on the back side of Boston’s Beacon Hill. By some accounts it was a drab, minimalist apartment, furnished with wicker patio chairs and decorated with Wieners’s own collages of travel brochures and movie magazines. The refrigerator was empty and unplugged. After he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, grocery bags of champagne lined the walls—replaced, ...