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March 31, 2014
Coming Soon! Ferlinghetti’s Travel Journals
In super exciting Beat-, travel-, poetry-, publishing- related news, Liveright Publishing will publish Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s travel journals in September 2015! The suspense is driving me crazy!! Ferlinghetti is one of my most favorite poets. Back when I was in undergrad, I made my first pilgrimage to City Lights, the bookstore he founded, bought his San […]
March 30, 2014
Remembering John Clellon Holmes
Earlier this month we celebrated what would’ve been John Clellon Holmes’ 88th birthday. Today marks the anniversary of his passing from cancer at the age of 62 in 1988. Holmes’ first published book was Go, a fantastic novel about the early Beat scene featuring the same cast of characters that Kerouac wrote about in On […]
March 27, 2014
Jack Kerouac Tour of Denver
Illustration by Jackie Besteman via 5280 Isn’t that map cute? It was created by illustrator Jackie Besteman, who does an entire series of maps. Over at 5280, Chris Outcalt put together a Jack Kerouac tour of Denver that includes a “believability index.” You can check out the jazz joints, cabaret clubs, and hotels here. This […]
March 26, 2014
Happy 84th Birthday, Gregory Corso!
Gregory Nunzio Corso was born on March 26, 1930, in New York City. He would’ve been 84 today. He’s one of my favorite poets, and to celebrate his wit and warmth, here is a link to his poem “I Am 25.” You may also like::: Corso’s connection to Aristophanes via Shelley Corso wrote a letter […]
Writing Wednesday: Oxford Comma for the Win!
, Remember a while back when I posted about the story about Kerouac and Burroughs getting into a duel over the Oxford comma—or more so my reaction to that story? Well, I just came across two recent articles fighting for this little bit of punctuation. For up this Buzzfeed article that argues—quite humorously and […]
March 25, 2014
Victory Hellas!
Happy Greek Independence Day! Find out about Agia Lavra, the church where the revolution began, in my Church Hopping column on Burnside Writers Collective. And read my previous post on the history of March 25 being Greek Independence Day here.Filed under: Faith, Greekish Tagged: Greece, holiday, independence
March 24, 2014
I’m Leading a Free Writing Worshop Tonight
From the website::: March 24, 2014. 7-9pm. Stephanie will lead a writers workshop with Nana and Maurice at the Redeemer Offices, 1359 Broadway, 4th Floor, Main Conference Room. Admission is free. Please bring 1-2 pages of your writing for critique. See you there!Filed under: Faith, Writing Tagged: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Redeemer Writers Group, writing workshop
March 21, 2014
Media: Literary Kicks Mentioned My Aristophanes Post
via Lit Kicks I’m not sure how I possibly missed this, but the blog I’ve been reading for the longest time ever mentioned my Aristophanes post back in December. Literary Kicks is one of the very first websites I ever discovered on the Internet. Founded by Levi Asher in 1994, it used to cover mainly […]
March 20, 2014
White Trash Uncut: The Resource Magazine Interview with Christopher Makos
Around the same time that Jack Kerouac packed his rucksack and went on the road, Christopher Makos was born into a Greek American family in Kerouac’s hometown. In the June 2013 issue of That’s, Ned Kelly reported: Christopher Makos was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the birthplace of pioneering Beat Generation writer Jack […]
March 19, 2014
#AmtrakResidency Politics Makes Me Laugh
During my lunchtime reads, this headline, via Poets & Writers, made me laugh: “Republicans Denounce Amtrak Residency” The link round-up led to The Atlantic’s article “Shocker: Conservative Republicans Hate the Amtrak Writer Residency.” I’m not one to blog politics, but I will talk copywriting: these two headlines grabbed my attention and made me actually laugh […]
