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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 recollection by Lisa, in tribute and in memory.

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 Maher Jr. combed some unpublished diaries Kerouac kept in Morocco, to capture the real mindset of the...