THE BEATS IN MEXICO ~

 

JACK KEROUAC AT 100 ~

 

Don't use the telephone.
People are never ready to answer it.
Use poetry.

––Jack Kerouac
from Scattered Poems

photograph by

Allen Ginsberg, 1957

JANINE POMMY VEGA ~THE BEAT SCENE (BURT GLINN) ~

 

Unfortunately unidentified as a photograph in this

marvelous book of the Beat era — this is

a very young Janine Pommy Vega —

perhaps in a bar sitting next to Jack Kerouac

who she did meet when she was fifteen years old.

It's the lonesome traveler's profile.

It's Janine's soulful search.

[ BA ]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANINE 

TODAY 

5 February 1942

T H E     B E A T     S C E N E

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ~

 

A

REDWOOD

FALLS

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

March 24, 1919 ~ February 22, 2021

I N T E R V I E W

RE-READING KEROUAC AT THE "WILD BOAR" ~

An uneven (it's strength) collection of essays, memoir, 

poetry, photographs compiled by

librarian and Jack Kerouac climbing partner

(with Gary Snyder) John Montgomery

from The Dharma Bums, a rightfully so

ragtag membership of Kerouac

friends and scholars come forth, be it 

David Amram, Ann Charters, Joy Walsh, 

Gerald Nicosia, Michael McClure.

More more and more.

Seymour Wyse shows his skills

balancing Beat and jazz.

From Montgomery's own press

Fels & Firn, 1986

[ BA ]

DIANE DI PRIMA: MOTHER, SISTER, DAUGHTER, MODEL ~

 

D I A N E     D I     P R I M A

1934, Brooklyn ~ 2020

THE BEAT GENERATION FAQ ~

R E A D     O N

Rich Weidman — if you're listening —

get the poet Janine Pommy Vega, 

traveler, 60s Huncke sidekick

into any revision you make of this fine book.

You missed her. 

Hard to miss.