Off-Beat Readings

 Hotel Boheme


Poetry Readings

  • Sundays at 7 p.m.
    The Forked Tongue, 493 Broadway, 487-5123.

  • Sundays and Tuesdays from 8 - 10 p.m.
    Paradise Lounge, 1501 Folsom at 11th St. (South of Market), 861-6906.

rooms
rooms
rooms
rooms

Books

  • Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (City Lights, 1956)
    The best and best-known work of Beat Poetry.

  • Jack Kerouac, On the Road (Penguin, 1957).

  • Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (Penguin, 1958).

  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958).

  • Gary Snyder, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (North Point Press, 1958).

  • William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (Grove Press, 1959).

  • Bob Kaufman, Solitude Crowded With Loneliness (New Directions, 1965).

  • Diane DiPrima, Memoirs of a Beatnik (Last Gasp, 1969).

  • Neal Cassady, The First Third (City Lights, 1971).

  • The Portable Beat Reader, ed. Ann Charters (Penguin, 1992).

  • Snap Poetics -- Photo essay on the Beat Era (Chronicle Books).
back 


San Francisco Bookstores  |  Bookstore Events

Poetry Magazines  |  Bohème Beat Links