Posts In Category Beat bios

Bill Hotchkiss 1936-2010

on February 20, 2011 by Duende in Beat bios, News, Comments (3)

I always thought that poet and author Bill Hotchkiss deserved way more recognition than he got. In fact, even though I’d been in touch with him just months before his […]

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Herbert Huncke

on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Huck, whom you’ll see on Times Square, somnolent and alert, sad, sweet, dark, holy. Just out of jail. Martyred. Tortured by sidewalks, starved for sex and companionship, open to anything, […]

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Joanne Kyger

on August 3, 2009 by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)

A native Californian, Joanne Kyger became part of the San Francisco poetry world in 1957 when she left Santa Barbara where she had attended both high school and the University […]

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Bob Kaufman

on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Jazz radio on a midnight kick,
Round about Midnight.
Sitting on the bed,

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Eileen Kaufman

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (2)

Eileen was a writer and wife to Bob Kaufman (a poet from San Francisco). Bob and Eileen hooked up with Ginsberg, Corso, Kerouac, Whalen, and Snyder during times when the […]

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Gabrielle Kerouac

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Gabrielle, Jack’s mother, was certainly a center in his writing and a core in his life.

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Jack Kerouac

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

For the greatest key to courage is shame and the blurfaces in the passing train see nothing out on the plain but figures of hoboes rolling out of site…

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Jan Kerouac

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Jan was the daughter of Joan Haverty and Jack Kerouac. She spent much of her life, maybe all of it, having trouble coming to terms with the fact that her […]

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Denise Levertov

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Like Elise Cowen, Denise began writing poetry at an early age in life. After being published in Poetry Quarterly, at age 17, she began correspondence with people like Kenneth Rexroth, […]

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Angus MacLise

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

See this bio at Jack.

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Michael McClure

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

And grim intensity–close within myself. No longer
a cloud
but flesh real as a rock. Herakles
of primordial substance and vitality…

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David Meltzer

on August 7, 2009 by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)

David Meltzer was raised in Brooklyn during the war years. He performed on radio and early TV on the Horn & Hardart Children’s Hour. He was exiled to L.A. at […]

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Michael Rothenberg

on April 14, 2009 by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years, where he cultivates orchids and […]

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Edie Parker Kerouac

on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

Edie met Jack through a mutual friend and former merchant marine buddy of Kerouac’s: Henry Cru.

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Kenneth Patchen

on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)

I am the world crier, and this is my dangerous career…I am the one to call your bluff, and this is my climate.

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