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January 6, 1934 – March 1, 2002. Born in Milton, Massachusetts, he studied at Boston College. In 1954 he heard Charles Olson read at the Charles

October 20, 1923 – June 26, 2002. He was born in Portland, Oregon and attended Reed College on the GI Bill, receiving a B.A. in 1951. He and Gary

January 30, 1925 – August 17, 1965, was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to

lives in San Francisco, California.

was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1935. After high school he began his career of many F’s in several universities both in the U.S. and abroad. After

was born in 1935 in Kansas, involved in the Beat scene in New York in the 1950s, and was a notable figure in the San Francisco literary scene in

born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San

a “second generation Beat writer,” he came to San Francisco in 1957. During the late 1950s period of the San Francisco renaissance, his personal

at the age of 22 he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read “Howl.”

has been associated with San Francisco poetry renaissance since the late 1950s. In the early 1960s he taught at San Francisco State College, and

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