Gay Pride still probably scares the white off rice in some places, so just imagine what effect Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has on people. Sycamore…
Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story…
On October 7, 1955, five young poets read at an art gallery on Fillmore Street at an event that would change the face of…
There are few sacred cows more deserving of tribute than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, he gave us the first all-paperback bookstore in the country;…
An interview with Alan Kaufman
Performer John O'Keefe breathes new life into the work of a dead poet
A tribute to an unsung maverick of beatnik culture
An epic reading for the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's “Howl”
Intersection for the Arts turns 40, right at home in the Mission
There's something a bit unsettling about the fact that Internet spam has started to bear an eerie resemblance to Beat poetry. These days, when…
