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What Are Souls? An Interview with Michael McClure
by Jack Foley, includes discussion of Six Gallery reading, 1955, of "For the Death of 100 Whales" poem.
http://www.alsopreview.com/columns/foley/jfmminterview3.html
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Paul Bowles Photographs
Literary friends of writer Bowles, visiting him in Tangier in 1950s and 1960s. Includes Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso.
http://www.paulbowles.org/photoslit3.html
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Six Poets at Six Gallery
October 7, 1955 reading with Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen, Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco. First reading of "Howl" by Ginsberg. Start of modern oral poetry tradition.
http://www.mundomundo.com/6-poets.html
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San Francisco Renaissance
6 Poets at 6 Gallery by Al Aronowitz.
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column26.html
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Huncke Times
Herbert Huncke, the original Beat; major influence on William Burroughs.
http://www.huncke-times.com/
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Books by the Beat Generation
Nice review of major books (collectables) by the Beats, by Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller11.html
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A Short Guide to Denton Welsh
Author, painter. 1915-1948. Major literary influence on William Burroughs.
http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/LOUTTIT%20WEBSITE/Index.htm
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Herbert Huncke Interviewed
Exclusive interview of Beat Generation icon by author Johnny Strike
http://realitystudio.org/interviews/herbert_huncke_by_johnny_strike
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The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
San Francsico State University; artist biographies and MP3 audio files; founded in 1954 on the basis of a gift by W.H. Auden.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/
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Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Annotated list of beat publication dates and events, by Larry Smith (Firelands College of BGSU)
http://www.connectotel.com/beat/beatchr1.html
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