This page will be updated regularly with links and info on the stories of Beat History.
Pull My Daisy Robert Frank & jack kerouac 1959
David Amram talks about the making of the film Pull My Daisy
“Beat Godfather” Herbert Huncke (1915 -1996) died on this day –
Remembering a legend – Herbert Huncke
Anne Waldman, Artist and Poet (2020-Lifetime) Award – National Beat Poetry Festival 2020 – Watch performance here
Paul Richmond interviewed Dave Amram, starts out slow, someone was interviewing him, after they left, Paul started his interview
To celebrate David Amram’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Beat Poetry Foundation here’s an interview of David by Ron Whitehead, 21 minutes 27 seconds. The interview was filmed, August 2018, by Steven Clark following the recording of the new Whitehead/Amram KENTUCKY BOUND SESSIONS, recorded and filmed at a 225-year old cabin studio, a few miles outside Louisville, by Nashville music producer Vince Emmett. The album is being mixed. A release date has not yet been set. Watch Here
From Women of the Beat Generation – A woman from the audience asks: “Why are there so few women on this panel? Why are there so few women in this whole weekend’s program? Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?” and Gregory Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: there were women, they were there, I knew them, Their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the 50’s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up. There were cases, I knew them, someday someone will write about them” from Stephen Scobie’s account of the Naropa Institute tribute to Ginsberg, July 1994
Burroughs Towers Open Fire, Watch movie here