Gregory Corso

...were quite a bit older than me," Smith says. "In my early 20s, I met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, and I was very privileged to meet these people and learn from them. You forget about age if you're creatively...

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...in a ferment of creativity. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky first stayed there in 1957 and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Derek Raymond, Harold Norse and Gregory Corso, as well as Sinclair Beiles. It was here that Burroughs...

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...remembrances she shares here involve the Beats. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso founded the Jack Kerouac of Disembodied Poetics, which was associated with the Naropa Institute. Faithfull taught lyric writing at the school and...

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After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, Fagen enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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...Kyger. The adventure is slow to start. We first meet Ginsberg's fellow Beat poets Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and their stints in jail, mental wards and drug-infested apartments. The anecdotes flit from one character to...

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...time for all of them. There, Ginsberg finished his epic poem "Kaddish", Corso composed "Bomb" and "Marriage", and Burroughs (with help from Ginsberg and Corso) put together Naked Lunch, from previous writings. This period was documented...

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...Valery Oisteanu and Kat Georges host a tribute to the writer Harold Norse, an associate of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso, who wrote, among other things, the experimental novel "Beat Hotel," and who died last month.

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...of the 1950s. Kashner's book provides a glimpse into the lives and creative processes of his teachers at the Jack Kerouac School, including Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso. Among the various and...

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...period for many of them. There, Ginseberg would finished his poem "Kaddish", Corso composed "Bomb" and "Marriage", and Burroughs (with Ginsberg and Corso's help) put together "Naked Lunch", from previous writings. Corso returned to New York...

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