Events
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Top of the Mark: Poetry & Jazz Series
This March and April, The Beat Museum proudly presents Poetry & Jazz at the Top of the Mark! March 3 6:30-8:30 San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía, The Voice of the Mission performs with jazz accompaniment March 10 6:30-8:30 Jazz Poet, Painter & Playwright Charles Curtis Blackwell & Poet Vincent Kobelt perform with The All-Star […]
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The Joan Anderson Letter: Gerd Stern and Mike McQuate
The finding of ‘The Joan Anderson Letter’ written by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac in December, 1950 is a critically important event in the history of The Beat Generation. It has been called ‘The Holy Grail’ of The Beat Generation because it was this letter that caused Kerouac to radically shift his style of writing […]
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Video from Jack Kerouac’s 90th Birthday
by Jerry Cimino So many people who love Kerouac and his works wanted to join in our 90th Birthday celebration, that we decided to hold it over a span of two days. On Sunday, March 11th, Al Hinkle (Big Ed Dunkel from On the Road) and John Allen Cassady (first person in the history of […]