Ginsberg Festival: Allen Ginsberg and the Beats panel

12 JULY 2013 — friday

Ginsberg Festival: Alan Kaufman moderates a panel on Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg," with Neeli Cherkovski, Jerry Cimino, Brenda Knight, Kush, Don Lattin, Reginia Marler (Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned American on to Sex), Gerald Nicosia (One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road and Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac), Steve Silberman, and David Talbot (Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love), with dramatic readings by Bruce Bierman, Naomi Newman, Laura Sheppard, and ruth weiss, Second Floor Library, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, 7:45 (www.milibrary.org)