Posts In Category Beat bios
Kenneth Rexroth
on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
You,
The hyena with polished face and bow tie,
Seymour Krim
on January 25, 2010 by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Thanks to Mark Cohen of Missing a Beat for the bio. Seymour Krim. b. May 11, 1922, New York d. Aug. 30, 1989, New York You thought you heard of […]
Edith Snow
on December 10, 2009 by Duende in Beat bios, Comments (0)
I was born Edith Holsclaw, in southern Indiana in 1909. Politics should have been my field: my parents were conservative Republicans in the Bible Belt, and my grandfather had built […]
Gary Snyder
on April 9, 2009 by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (1)
Cobble of milky way,
straying planets,
These poems, people,
Ruth Weiss
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
Ruth’s family escaped Austria under the Nazi regime and landed in New York in 1939, and later in Chicago. Upon her family’s return to Europe, Ruth underwent her own road […]
Lew Welch
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
All things considered, it’s a gentle and understanding
planet, even here. Far gentler
Philip Whalen
on by Mary in Beat bios, Comments (0)
TRUE CONFESSIONS
My real trouble is
People keep mistaking me
for a human being.
