Mar 26 2026
“My music is built in—it’s already natural. I don’t play with the meter.” – Gregory Corso Born on March 26, 1930, Gregory Corso emerged from one of the most chaotic childhoods in modern American literary biography to become a central poet of the Beat Generation. He never followed the expected route into literary life. There …
Mar 12 2026
Before Jack Kerouac became the face of the Beat Generation, he was a French-speaking boy in a Massachusetts mill town, an obsessive reader, a gifted athlete, a would-be sailor, and a young writer trying to understand why ordinary American life seemed unable to contain his hunger for experience. His later mythology would revolve around highways, …
