Mar 26 2024
“My music is built in—it’s already natural. I don’t play with the meter.” – Gregory Corso Gregory Corso, a name often overlooked in the annals of American poetry, remains an essential figure within the Beat Generation, a literary movement that defined a significant part of mid-20th-century American culture. Corso’s poetic legacy, while not as widely …
Mar 12 2024
Born on this day March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac, a pioneering figure in the Beat Generation of post-war America, has left a lasting impression on American literature. The Beat Generation, a literary movement that sought to challenge conventional societal norms and structures, found its most authentic voice in Kerouac. His works, infused …
