Beatdom 25: The San Francisco Renaissance Issue

This issue of Beatdom is devoted to the San Francisco Renaissance. It includes essays on Robert Duncan, ruth weiss, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and many other poets who called San Francisco home in the middle of the 1950s.

Table of Contents

Essays

Blowing Beats in the Basement: Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, and the Poetry Readings in the Cellar, by Leon Horton

The 6 Gallery Reading and the San Francisco Renaissance, by David S. Wills

"Before That Whole Beat Thing Happened": ruth weiss' First Years in San Francisco, by Thomas Antonic

Madeline Gleason: The Romantic Rhyming Radical, by Ryan Mathews

Rexroth and Kerouac: An Antidote of Sorts, by James K. Hanna

The Monk in the "Beat-Fold", by John Marshell

In Search of the Good Blonde, by Brett Sigurdson

The San Francisco Renaissance and Far Eastern Religions, by Peter Oehler

Beginner's Mind: A Re-reading of Allen Ginsberg's Revolutionary "Howl", by Jonah Raskin

A.D. Winans on the Counterculture, by A.D. Winans

Festivals of Poetry, 1947-1952, by Tom Cantrell

"It's Not My Scene": The Evolving Poets and Poetics of the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances and the Beat Generation, by Ryan Mathews

Duncan Among The "Stars": An Essay on Robert Duncan's Poetics of "Open Form" (Part II), by Yorio Hirano

Memoirs

The Beat Poet Spills It Out, by Henri Bensussen

Ghost Mantras: Michael McClure Remembered, by D.S. Black

Poetry

Poem for ruth weiss, by A.D. Winans

Remembering Bob Kaufman, by A.D. Winans

Lifting the Light from the Jade Green Waves Below, by Paul W. Jacobs (Jake)

Poems for Jack Micheline, by A.D. Winans

Reviews

To Find Dawn's Moon, by David S. Wills