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Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ, Shiraishi Kazuko, 27 February 1931 [1] – 14 June 2024) was a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono 's "VVOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951.
Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as a "serious romantic." [1] [2] Over his five-decade-long career, he published five full collections of ...
Mary Norbert Körte (or Korte or Koerte) (1933/1934 – November 14, 2022) was an American poet associated with the Beat movement. A former Catholic Religious Sister from the San Francisco Bay area, in the 1960s she became a poet, teacher and social activist. Her published work includes several volumes of poetry. [1] She died on November 14 ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and political activist who helped launch the Beat movement, died from interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco on Monday, his daughter Julie Sasse ...
From the 1960s on she worked as a photographer and a collage artist, and in the last decade or so of her life she took up watercolor painting. [ citation needed ] From 1980 to 1987, di Prima taught Hermetic and esoteric traditions in poetry, in a short-lived but significant Masters-in-Poetics program at New College of California , [ 12 ] which ...
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Albert Fairchild Saijo (February 4, 1926 – June 2, 2011) was a Japanese-American poet associated with the Beat Generation.He and his family were imprisoned as part of the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, during which time he wrote editorials on his experiences of internment for his high school newspaper.