Philip Whalen (L) & Jack Kerouac Today we remember Beat poet Philip Whalen, who died on this date -- June 26 -- in 2002 at the age of ...

  Yesterday -- June 18 -- would have been Helen Weaver's 90th birthday. We noted her passing on April 13 of this year HERE . Weaver   ap...

  I thought Daily Beat readers would be interested in Marjorie J. Levine's new poetry book since she was the winner of our Beat Poetry C...

  Hettie Jones Today is poet/writer Hettie Jones' 87th birthday. She never appeared in a Jack Kerouac work, but her husband, LeRoi Jones...

Stanley Twardowicz Jack Kerouac's Northport friend, painter/photographer Stanley Twardowicz, died on this date -- June 12 -- in 2008. He...

  Kenneth Rexroth Poet and critic Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth, who we wished a happy birthday in December (click  HERE ), died on this da...

                                                              Writer Jan Kerouac, Jack's only child, died on yesterday's date -- Jun...