In recognition of National Poetry Month, the Tompkins County Public Library will host “The Beat Writers,” a lecture by Larry Rapant, Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in the BorgWarner Community Room.
This presentation will explore the literary movement that is often credited with transforming the American psyche with respect to issues of race, politics, artistic freedom, psychedelic drug use, spirituality, homosexuality and psychological repression. Through video clips of writers giving performances and interviews, as well as exercises designed to help audiences appreciate the Beat phenomenon, Rapant will illustrate what made the Beat culture so unique.
A retired SUNY instructor, Rapant will also trace and speculate on the Beat movement’s literary ancestors— Walt Whitman, E.E. Cummings and Henry Miller---and examine the lives and work of those who popularized it, namely: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lesser known writers and the impact of the Beat generation on present-day poets will also be discussed.
Sponsored by the New York Council for Humanities, this program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248.
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