Beatdom's retrospective on the October 1955 Six Gallery reading, cited for painter Wally Hedrick's role proposing the reading, Kenneth Rexroth's role as master of ceremonies rather than organizer, the reading poster's own list of participants, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's telegram to Ginsberg afterward.
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PublisherBeatdom
URLhttps://www.beatdom.com/sixty-years-after-the-six-gallery-reading/
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier2
Beatdom is a Beat Generation-specific literary magazine and archive edited by David S. Wills, author of several published books on Kerouac and the Beats; a subject-specialist secondary source rather than a general encyclopedia or peer-reviewed press. Sources
Sixty Years After the Six Gallery Reading (Beatdom)
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