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poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

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education List of free and amazing online courses from top universities David Pescovitz

music When William S. Burroughs met Bob Dylan David Pescovitz

music [Trailer] Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Xeni Jardin

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

videos Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac hang out with New York's beats, 1959 Cory Doctorow

san francisco Summer of Love 'trading cards' hit San Francisco bus stops Rusty Blazenhoff

scholarship Stanford Libraries post digital archive of drafts of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL Cory Doctorow

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