History Lesson That little ape that came down from a tree and used a stick on his enemy and called aloud to his family to show what a great brave ape […]
May 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside The Mainstream – Lawrence Lipton
By Jim Smith Lawrence Lipton was something of a father figure to the Beat poets of Venice. He was reviled by many of the poets for his manipulations and commercialism. Yet, […]
May 2008 – Bruno In Venice West
By Lawrence Lipton For Giordano Bruno burned by the Inquisition in the year 1600 Velvet and warm sweat under the torches the Procession entered the city, tall bronze men on the bronze […]
April 2008 – Four Poems By James Ryan Morris
She Said there is a time for us, & a place for that – the poem. such conflict, between the lady & the poem that separation is today, we look one at […]
April 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside The Mainstream – James Ryan Morris
By Shanna Moore Winter of 1959 and the boardwalk was bare, riding my bicycle along the boardwalk from Santa Monica down the coast. I’d stop at the Carousel, a gay bar on […]
March 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside The Mainstream – Philomene Long
By Jim Smith Philomene Long came late to the party, but she soon made up for lost time with her dynamic personality and soaring poetry. The Beat scene was a decade old […]
March 2008 – Philomene Long’s Cold Ellison I
“Cold Ellison,” the apartment building on Paloma Avenue where she and John Thomas lived, became a theme of a number of Long’s poems. Cold Ellison I By Philomene Long “Cold cliffs more […]
February 2008 – Interview with Venice Poet Frank T. Rios, Part 2
Part 2 (see January Beachhead for Part 1) By Hillary Kaye Beachhead: Is there anything else about Philomene Long you’d like to share? Frankie: When she did The Beats, An Existentialist […]
February 2008 – The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside The Mainstream – John Thomas
By Jim Smith Charles Bukowski – who should know – called John Thomas, “The best unread poet in America. He is the invisible genius of American poetry.” Referring to John Thomas when […]
January 2008 – When Jack Kerouac Came To Venice
By John Thomas Jack I didn’t know. Never met him. Only saw him once — not much more than a glimpse, then. And he surely wasn’t at his best that night. What […]
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