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  “I’m looking to see if there’s a guy who looks like Lew Welch in this audience,” says poet Gary Snyder at a San Francisco tribute to Welch, the complex Beat poet who was represented as the soulful, restless Dave Wain in Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur. It’s a cutting thought, because Gary Snyder was among …
• Amiri Baraka, Newark Poet
  Amiri Baraka, a seminal Beat poet, angry playwright, revolutionary activist and scrappy indie publisher from Newark, New Jersey has died. The Allen Ginsberg Project blog has the scoop. Here’s a Litkicks article about Amiri Baraka by Jamelah Earle from 2003. Please feel free to share your memories or personal encounters with Amiri Baraka by leaving …
• Conjuring the Beat Generation: Gerd Stern and the Cassady Kin
  One of the exciting things about the Beat Museum’s Beatnik Shindig which is happening next weekend in San Francisco is the activity it’s stirring up. The photo above, which has never been published before, shows a gang of unknown beatniks on a now-legendary Sausalito barge that became a group home for a wide variety of …