Community Lecture: The Beat Poets — A Literary & Cultural Revolution

The revolutionary works of “The Beat Poets” of San Francisco changed both literature and culture. In this lecture, you’ll explore and examine some of them. From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Coney Island of the Mind” and “Starting from San Francisco,” to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and “Kaddish,” to Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder’s Buddhist/Environmentalist “Turtle Island.” You’ll also take a look at Beat icon Jack Kerouac, author of “On the Road” and “Dharma Bums,” and the extraordinary poetry of his “October In The Railroad Earth."