The Beats and Beyond
Thursday, May 29 2008
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
Wilson Library, UNC-CH
San Francisco and New York may claim ownership of the counterculture poetry movement, but it’s not a stretch to think of North Carolina as an incubator for the Beat Generation. Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti began his literary exploration at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Black Mountain College gave the world a manifesto for avant-garde writing. It all comes together in the exhibit, “The Beats & Beyond: Counterculture Poetry, 1950-1975” going on now through July 3rd at the Wilson Library on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Curator Sarah Fass, Beat Generation Biographer and Allen Ginsberg Archivist Bill Morgan, and Charles McNamara, director of the Wilson Library’s Rare Book collection, ,join host Frank Stasio to discuss the significance of the Beats in North Carolina and beyond.
