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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
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.
He soon gave up advertising and earned a living driving a cab while devoting more time to writing. He became an active participant in Beat culture, living at various times with Snyder and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1960, poet Lenore Kandel met Welch and Snyder, who introduced her to many people in the Beat movement. [7]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. [4] She spent some time in California at Stinson Beach and Topanga Canyon, returned to New York City, and eventually moved to San Francisco permanently. [5] She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones ...
Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986) was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. [1] In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud.