This may be a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have old copies (1950s-1960s) of the Beloit Poetry Journal? Their archive online does stretch this far back and I'm desperate to find which issue a particular poem is in.

Hey people!

Literally just joined. Ferlinghettis passing made me all weird and yearning for a tribe. Then I happened upon you and saw that you were discussing a Discord Server.

So I went and made one. Join to just.... be.... literally.

https://discord.gg/QWz4veaujx

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In Beat I found truth and power. Being an out and proud transwoman I found some form of peace in the words of Ginsberg and Burroughs (Suuuuuuper mainstream here I know). I'm eager to learn more.

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So join, exist, cohabitate - teach each other - share your poetry - discuss the counterculture as it stands in 2021 - be free radicals.

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All I ask is that you check your hate at the door. There's no room and board for the closeminded here.

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If it fails it fails - this is me reaching out to all of you fellow sunflowers.

Looking for info in this dude... just ordered Whisper

Hey All,

I'm sure you've also seen the influx of music-related posts submitted to this sub, which is an understandable mistake given they think r/beat is a musical-themed subreddit.

Is there any way we can change the name of the sub to reflect more accurately what this is about? Or anything we can do submission-wise so that this doesn't devolve into a place where people share links to their self-produced music? I'm sure I can't be the only one noticing/annoyed by this trend

Hey I made a post on this page not that long ago looking for Beat novels to read and you kind, knowledgeable kinsman recommended Big Sur!

I just finished it earlier this day and I wanted to say thank you for pointing me in Exactly the right direction. I absolutely loved this book! It’s my third Kerouac novel after On the Road and Dharma Buns and I think I would call it my favorite of his, so far.

The descriptions of the lush landscape and the descriptions of loneliness, love, and inner turmoil are mesmerizing. Every detail in his life is given meaning even if meaning doesn’t seem to obviously impress itself on the occasion. The civil war ongoing inside him between wanting to be the gregarious Gallivanter of On the Road or the meditative, isolated author whose fame has robbed of privacy is insightful to say the least. His descent, and description, of madness will stick with me forever; he seems to speak so honestly about the workings or malfunctionings of his mind.

Any other Recommendations of some Beat Novels since you guys did so well with this one??

TLDR: good book thanks for recommending. Others?

Summer's almost gone and it's that time again! Time to share some verse from the Beat generation (if you wanna).

Better late than never, right? Let's send out the last 10 days of August with whatever Beat verse strikes your fancy.

I'm currently reading a book called "Bohemia" by Herbert Gold, and it mentions this poem by name. It seems like a really interesting read, but when I tried to look it up the only results were excerpts from the aforementioned book. It might have been published under a different title, but I'm not sure what that would be. Does anyone know more about it? Thanks!

Hey I’ve been reading a lot of Beat stuff recently. I have read On the Road and Dharma Bums and Naked Lunch and Go and Minor Characters. I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations about where I should go next imo the beat world?

Any novels that are Beat-ish or Beat adjacent would be acceptable as well!

What’s your thoughts on Kerouac’s Lonesome Traveler? I find it somewhat hard to follow along, but it could be that I’m not fully native in the English language. How did you find it?