21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57 known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word back in […]
Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 25 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti is Dead, Long Live Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
February 28th, 2021 · No Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry
(collage and poem by S.A. Griffin) Lawrence Ferlinghetti is Dead, Long Live Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Howling Allen Ginsberggot shot out of history’s atomic canonand never stopped flyingFerlinghetti prints the poem as news hysterical nakedand gets busted for publishing obscene odes the law fought the poem and the poem won without this greeting at such […]
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