Literary Features:
Reviews, Poems, Essays & Interviews

Book, Film & Event Reviews

Moondog — The Viking of 6th Avenue

Hammond Guthrie reviews Robert Scotto's authorized biography of the brilliant classical / avant garde composer Moondog, aka Louis Hardin Jr.

Read the Moondog review...

More Reviews by Hammond Guthrie

• Bob Dylan and the Beatles by Al Aronowitz
• Who the Hell is Stew Albert? A Memoir by Stew Albert
• Unhurried Vision by Michael Rothenberg
• Beat Hotel by Barry Miles
• Mondo Hollywood (film review)

More Reviews!

• Eric D. Lehman reviews Time Adjusters & Other Stories by Bill Ectric *new!
• Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Teresa Conboy)

Articles & Essays

Beat Generation Essays by Eric Patterson

Eric V. Patterson explores Beat issues in a thought-provoking trio of essays:

• Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Gen.
• Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac's On the Road
• The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac & The Outsider

Author & Beat scholar Dave Moore explores strange variations in one of Jack Kerouac's poems, in his article, "Kerouac & The Outsider - A Puzzle.

More Beat-related essays:

• Lonely? You better believe it. by Alan Griffey

Music

Alchemy: Tom Waits

In two articles, songwriter Robert Wright considers Tom Waits as songwriter & inspiration, then considers the best covers of Waits' songs.

• Inherited Alchemy: Tom Waits Inspiration on Songwriting
• Introduction to Alchemy: A Study of Waits through Cover Songs

Photography & Art

Larry Keenan - Beat Generation & Counterculture Photos

A vast gallery spanning over 40 years of award-winning photographer's photos of Beat Generation, counterculture & musical icons, including Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Bob Dylan, and many others. A visual trip through hip America. Visit the Beat Generation & Counterculture Photo Gallery.

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Concert

On August 11, Tom Constanten, the music of It's a Beautiful Day featuring David & Linda LaFlamme, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship, and Big Brother & the Holding Company played the Festival of the River in Arlington, Wa. We've got exclusive photos!
View the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Concert photos...

Meditations - 6 Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek explores six concepts: balance, compassion, concentration, emptiness, renunciation, and wisdom, in this vibrant series of mixed-media artworks.

Enter the gallery.

Fiction

• The Home Helper by Kenneth Tindall *new!
• Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll) by Bill Ectric

Poems

• A Call to Poets by A.D. Winans
• America by A.D. Winans
• A Prison Poem by Neeli Cherkovski

Miscellaneous

• Some favorite quotations

don't forget The Third Page...

The Third Page: A Journal of Ongrowing Natures, is not part of the main Empty Mirror site. It's edited by Hammond Guthrie, who presents an eclectic assortment of art, literature & countercultural features. Here's The Third Page's home.

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