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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 ...
Langston Hughes (1901–1967), writer, poet; lived in D.C. at the start of his writing career Edward P. Jones (born 1951), author; raised in D.C. Jeannie Blackburn Moran (1842–1929), author, community leader, socialite, and philanthropist; lived in and died in D.C.
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way—a vision gleaned ...
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), Beat poet and political activist. [354] Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), founder of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis who also pushed for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ...
Carr was born in New York City; his parents, Marion Howland (née Gratz) and Russell Carr, were both children of socially prominent St. Louis families.His maternal grandfather was Benjamin Gratz, a St. Louis capitalist who was engaged in the rope making business and was descended from Michael Gratz, who was among the first Jewish settlers of Philadelphia and was prominent in Philadelphia's ...
Rayful Edmond, a notorious Washington DC-based drug dealer from the 1980s, has died in Florida while living in a halfway house.. He was 60. Scott Taylor, a representative of the Federal Bureau of ...
Ferlinghetti published many of the Beat poets and is considered by some as a Beat poet as well. [15] Yet Ferlinghetti did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, as he said in the 2013 documentary Ferlinghetti: Rebirth of Wonder: "Don't call me a Beat. I never was a Beat poet." [15] [16] Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2012 at Caffe Trieste