Beat & Beyond: Panels, Readings, Music, and Film

2 PM:  A Publication Party and Panel Discussion: Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems

The first new Ginsberg collection in over 15 years, Wait Till I’m Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan and published by Grove Atlantic. Morgan leads a reading from this new work and a discussion with Andy Clausen, Eliot Katz, Bob Rosenthal, and Peter Hale about Ginsberg, his poetry, and politics.

4 PM: A Publication Party and Reading by John Tytell
In celebration of Tytell’s books The Beat Interviews published by Beatdom Books and Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem, published by Vanderbilt University Press.

6 PM: Len Chandler & David Henderson In Conversation
Len Chandler performs and leads a discussion with writer/poet David Henderson about jazz-inspired beat poet Bob Kaufman—sometimes called the “American Rimbaud”—and the African-American contribution to the Beats, and will also introduce And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead, a feature-length documentary about Kaufman.

8 PM: The Films of Taylor Mead
Taylor Mead, the Poet laureate of Warhol’s Factory, the world’s first Underground Movie Star, and the Lower East Side’s own poet maudit, is remembered with a rare showing of The Flower Thief and other Mead films.

6 EAST 1ST STREET
NYC 10003

Phone: 917.475.1294

Free