The weekend past just saw Beatdom visit San Francisco in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac and the Beats. The inspiration was the Booksmith's 50th Anniversary Kerouac Discussion at the All Saints Church, just off Haight and Ashbury.
John Leland, Barry Gifford and Michael McClure discussed Kerouac and had a few laughs with a great crowd.
Beatdom also visited City Lights, Vesuvios, Tosca, the Beat Museum and Allen Ginsberg's house.
More info will be posted at www.beatdom.co.nr and in the next issue of Beatdom Magazine.
December Update
14 years ago
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Luke Breit’s poems are clear and of their time, in particular the Vietnam War, and the long road after.Other poems in the “Baby Beat” section, while clever and competent, often implode and self-flagellate as they pump the surreal and the back door of Beatdom.To be fair, some of these poets would later emerge at doors of their own.Baby Beat Generation tail ends the anthology with “Peripheral Poets”, a grossly arrogant signature that includes Anne Valley Fox, Tom Cuscon and Barbara Szerlip, given that these poems are often much better poems than those offered as 2nd Renaissance.The anthology also prints photos of “Others” book covers to fatten the calf.Unlike the all-inclusive anthology, 185 edited and published by Alix Geluardi whose kitchen and home in San Francisco’s Marina district were a poet’s Mecca Baby Beat” excludes, often arbitrarily.
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