A different beat: writings by women of the beat generation

from The second story man / Mimi Albert

Tessa's song ; Pavane for the white queen ; Chant for half the world ; Etching / Carol Bergé

from Off the road : my years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg / Carolyn Cassady

"At the acting class" ; "Dear God of the bent trees of Fifth Avenue" ; "Death I'm coming" ; "I took the skin of corpses" ; "I wanted a cunt of golden pleasure" ; "If it weren't for love I'd snooze all day" ; "The sound now in the street is the echo of a long" ; "Trust yourself-but not too far" / Elise Cowen

Elise Cowen : a brief memoir of the fifties / Leo Skir

The quarrel ; Requiem ; Minor arcana ; The window ; For Zella, painting ; from Memoirs of a beatnik / Diane di Prima

Breaking out of D.C. (1959) / Brenda Frazer

Farewell poems ; About my life at that time ; Postscript ; Julian ; The seed ; Cancer ; Burning with mist ; There are no limits to my system / Sandra Hochman

from Minor characters / Joyce Johnson

Proximity ; Poems from Paris / Kay Johnson

from How I became Hettie Jones / Hettie Jones

First they slaughtered the angels ; Love-lust poem ; Junk/angel ; Blues for Sister Sally / Lenore Kandel

from Who wouldn't walk with tigers / Eileen Kaufman

from You'll be okay / Frankie "Edie" Kerouac-Parker

from Baby driver ; from Trainsong / Jan Kerouac

from Nobody's wife / Joan Haverty Kerouac

Tapestry ; "Waiting again" ; "They are constructing a craft" ; "It is lonely" ; The hunt in the wood : Paolo Uccello ; Waiting ; "The persimmons are falling" ; The pigs for Circe in May / Joanne Kyger

The ballad of the sad young men ; "She" (for Hanja) ; The princess from Flatbush ; Spring can really hang you up the most ; It's only a movie ; Why ; Homecoming ; Where the blues begin ; All that fall (for Ernie) ; The decline of the west / Fran Landesman

Duties of a lady female / Sheri Martinelli

1957 ; Sound poem ; Ocotillo ; A Chinese painting ; 7-21-61 ; Wolf poem I ; Wolf poem II ; Outside Tucson ; 30th birthday : haiku ; A vacancy ; Hollywood ; More blessed to give / Joanna McClure

"And Tom, the existentialiste, drives, off..." ; You, phoebusapollo ; Hokusai & Moraff ; Hokusai got drunk ; Piscean Hokusai ; Moraff to Hokusai ; Hokusai at home ; Craft ; Poetics ; The way John told it ; Mary's testament / Barbara Moraff

George Washington : a dialogue between mother & daughter ; Daisy ; Chinatown ; Mother's Day ; Tweeds ; For my mother ; "The bridge of all bridges" ; "The smell of the fish market" ; "The fog in Washington Square Park" ; First asparagus of spring / Brigid Murnaghan

Come winter ; Ecstacy is a number ; On seeing an old man die in the street ; Any little boy wanting to be President ; St. Margaret stepping from the belly of the dragon ; Untitled, unnumbered ; Number 5 ; Thelonius ; Still life with ketchup ; Of our time ; Gesture / Margaret Randall

Pinpoint ; Letter three ; Third generation ; Sargasso Sea ; Manhattan as a Japanese print ; Celebration in Oregon ; Aphrodite declining ; McNichols Road, 1951 ; Te Deum / Laura Ulewicz

"Poem to your lean face, leaning down eyes" ; "Thrumming with it Lord thrumming with it" ; Poem against endless mass poetry readings ; Junk (& the old man) changes ; Poem/exhortation / Janine Pommy Vega

After "Les fleurs" ; College under water ; The blue that reminds me of the boat when she left ; The De Carlo lots ; How the sestina (yawn) works / Anne Waldman

from The brink / Ruth Weiss.