Posts In Category Beat bios
Lord Richard Buckley
on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
This bio has been moved over to Jack.
Charles Bukowski
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
Joan Vollmer Adams (Burroughs)
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Joan was William Burroughs’ common-law wife. William and other beats were greatly influenced by her. Allen Ginsberg, in “Dream Record,” said: I went back to Mexico City and saw Joan […]
William Burroughs
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
“Watch what everyone is doing, and don’t do it.”
Born: February 5, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri
Died: August 2, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas
Lucien Carr
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
In those years at Columbia, we really did have something going. It was a rebellious group, I suppose, of which there are many on campuses, but it was one that […]
Carolyn Cassady
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Carolyn Cassady was Neal Cassady’s second wife. She was a companion to Neal for over 14 years and was at the core of the famous beat trio: Cassady, Ginsberg, and […]
Neal Cassady
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
“I am sitting in a bar on Market St. I’m drunk, well, not quite, but I soon will be. I am here for 2 reasons; I must wait 5 hours […]
Ira Cohen
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
February 3, 1935- April 25, 2011 Ira Cohen was an “electronic multimedia shaman” who has travelled with those in the Beat Generation, but who remains a less talked-about, universal visionary […]
Gregory Corso
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
…Like the jester who blew out candles
tip-toeing in toe-bell feet
that his master dream victories
Elise Cowen
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Elise, inspired by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, went on to become a poet herself, although she never was published. She became friends with beats Joyce Johnson and Leo Skir, […]
Diane di Prima
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
just as I caught the train I think I saw you
shuffling to the horizon to stamp it flat
(from “The Beach”)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
I put my cap in the cage
and went out with the bird on my head…
Joan Haverty
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Joan and Jack Kerouac met, were married two weeks later, and their marriage lasted eight months. In the meantime, she became pregnant by Jack. Nine months later, and after their […]
