Beat Generation Lives!

The Beat Generation Lives! will take place in the Starr King Room of the Unitarian Church, Starr King and Franklin, Sat. evening October 7, starting at 7PM.

To honor the 50th anniversary of the publication of HOWL, we are re-creating a big Beat poetry reading in a spacious room at the that holds close to 200 people--with coffee, wine, jazz.

All of the reading will be of beat poetry--no lectures or memoirs.

So far original beats Lenore Kandel, Jerry Kamstra, David Meltzer, and Ray Clark Dickson have agreed to paticipate, with John Cassady reading dad Neal's stuff.

Other readers include:Neeli Cherkovski reading Ginsberg; Mel Clay reading Bob Kaufman; A.D. Winans reading Jack Micheline; Latif Harris reading Philip Lamantia and Howard Hart; Nicole Henares reading Jan Kerouac; Gerald Nicosia reading Jack Kerouac; Sharon Doubiago reading Diane DiPrima and Joanne Kyger; Matt Gonzalez reading John Wieners ;Phil Deal, jazz accompaniment on alto sax