Beat is not dead

sexuality, censorship, explicitness, etc at the Kerouac...

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:32:34 -0400

sexuality, censorship, explicitness, etc at the Kerouac Symposium, Salem State College, 1973 (feat. Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso)

atypewriterintheocean: AG; 1953

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:53:42 -0400

atypewriterintheocean:

AG; 1953

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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:47:08 -0400

chaboneobaiarroyoallende: Corso and Ginsberg

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:31:35 -0500

chaboneobaiarroyoallende:

Corso and Ginsberg

wandrlust: Jack Kerouac, 1985 — Robert Crumb

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:30:22 -0500

wandrlust:

Jack Kerouac, 1985 — Robert Crumb

EMILY DICKINSON by Jack Kerouac

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:29:54 -0500

yesindeedemilydickinson:

Ere so sober Emily
Did New England sow
With brooms of activity
I’d the tree-rock spoken to.
But it only said to me
“This sleet’s crack
You hear cracking my hide
Is the voice of olden poets
Not far from rocks of here
Did their olden eyes
On nature bestow blue
—” I said
“Ah Oh How So Sad.”

I said—”And graves?”
And I said “Darling
Supposing it should
To nature
Suddenly Occur
To make unending poets
Unendingly Blow”

Nature Said: “Mean,
I dont know what you
Mean”—
“Ah Nature, Ah Rock,”
I cried, “Nobody’s Bone
Has so suffusèd been,
No burden of boredom
Greater
No love colder
No love life less
No grave nearer
Always
Than Ye Bard”

keroassady: Neal Cassady reading from The Town and the City by...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:38:45 -0500

keroassady:

Neal Cassady reading from The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac, ca. 1950.

typewrittenblues: A little Something i wrote in wake of finals...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:20:25 -0500

typewrittenblues:

A little Something i wrote in wake of finals week and those lonely winter days

dexlysic: April 15, 1970- San Fransisco, Peace (Moritorium) Day...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:43:10 -0500

dexlysic:

April 15, 1970- San Fransisco, Peace (Moritorium) Day at the civic center with Allen Ginsberg, taken by Art Usherson

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:51:58 -0500

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:16:01 -0500

fernsandmoss: Jonas Mekas

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:03:08 -0500

fernsandmoss:

Jonas Mekas

"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them."

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:42:26 -0500

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art (via nordsol)

fuckyeahbeatgeneration: Steven Taylor, Allen Ginsberg and Peter...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:48:52 -0500

fuckyeahbeatgeneration:

Steven Taylor, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
by Saul Shapiro

forkswashington: the beats and cats

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:21:04 -0500

forkswashington:

the beats and cats

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Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:21:59 -0500

uncadavrexquis: San Fransisco, 1965. “Once when I was visiting...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:03:14 -0400

uncadavrexquis:

San Fransisco, 1965.

“Once when I was visiting Allen in his apartment he asked me if I would like some coffee. Having said “Yes,” he presented me with a metal bowl with coffee in it. The bowl seemed strange (like a dog dish) and I nursed the coffee to cool it down. Soon he started asking “Are you finished with that, man?” I would say “No, not yet” and after awhile I started to feel uncomfortable because the bowl seemed important to him. When I finally said “Yes,” he grabbed the bowl away — threw the remaining coffee in the sink and sat down with the bowl for his breakfast cereal. I was using his only bowl.” - Keenan

Allen Ginsberg with Maretta Greer and Gary Snyder at the Human...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:25:06 -0400

Allen Ginsberg with Maretta Greer and Gary Snyder at the Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, January 14, 1967. Leo Holub.

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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:55:10 -0400

nirvikalpa: “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:50:11 -0400

nirvikalpa:

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”