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  2. Joanne Kyger - Wikipedia

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    Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet.The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.

  3. Jack Gilbert - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. John Clellon Holmes - Wikipedia

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    John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 – March 30, 1988) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends.

  5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Helped Launch the Beat ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Janine Pommy Vega - Wikipedia

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    Janine Pommy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. [1] Her father worked as a milkman in the mornings and a carpenter in the afternoons. [2] At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac 's On the Road, she went with a friend to the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village, where they met Gregory Corso; in 1960, after graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she moved in with Allen ...

  7. Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern ... - AOL

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    Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beatpoetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...

  8. Diane di Prima - Wikipedia

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    Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher.

  9. Shel Talmy, Early Producer for the Who and Kinks and a ... - AOL

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    Sheldon “Shel” Talmy, the American-born producer behind classic ‘60s songs by the Who, the Kinks, the Easybeats and even a teenaged David Bowie, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles ...