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Lew Welch. Lewis Barrett Welch Jr. (August 16, 1926 – c. May 23, 1971) was an American poet associated with the Beat generation literary movement. Welch published and performed widely during the 1960s. He taught a poetry workshop as part of the University of California Extension in San Francisco, from 1965 to 1970.
Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature. [5] Chicago Poems , and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920) represent Sandburg's attempts to found an American version of social realism, writing expansive verse in praise of American agriculture and industry.
Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971) Book of Sketches (1952–1957; published 2006) Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973) Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch) Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977) San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1983)
Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (Golden, CO: Longhand Press, 1988) (with James Taylor III) RattleSnake Rider (Black Hawk, CO: Longhand Press, 1990) How I Read Gertrude Stein by Lew Welch, edited and with an introduction by Eric Paul Shaffer (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1996) Portable Planet: Poems (Chantilly, Virginia: Leaping Dog Press, 2000)
Before censorship by the university administration, Chicago Review was an early and leading promoter of the Beat Movement in American literature. [5] In the autumn of 1958, it published an excerpt from Burroughs' Naked Lunch, which was judged obscene by the Chicago Daily News and sparked public outcry; [6] this episode led to the censorship of the following issue, to which the editors ...
A United States Army veteran, Doyle was pursuing art and culinary studies at San Francisco State University when he published several poems in the school's literary magazine. This led to his association with Robert Duncan, Lew Welch, and Kenneth Rexroth. But Doyle stressed the directness of the spoken word over formal poetry.
Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
Nomad was an avant-garde literary magazine edited and published in Los Angeles between 1959 and 1962 by Anthony Linick and Donald Factor (the son of Max Factor Jr.). [1] The two were particularly drawn to the poetry and writing style of the Beat Generation, who wrote of their own frequently chaotic lives.