Beat Festival in Pensacola, Florida
There will be a Beat Festival, for National Poetry Month, in Pensacola,
Florida on April 3, 1999.
Here is some of the details:
Location
Subterranean Books
Place: 4113 Barrancas Avenue
Pensacola 32507
Time: 11:00am till 9:00pm
Date: April 3, 1999
Activities will include:
Beat cinema
Fried Shoes and Cooked Diamonds - 11:00am
Chappaqua - 12pm
Last Time I Committed Suicide - 1:30pm
Pull My Daisy - 3:15pm
Heart Beat - 3:45pm
Beat Exploitation - 5:45pm
Thee Films - 6:20pm
Naked Lunch - 6:55pm
Readings
A marathon reading of beat writers to include:
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Diprima, Anne
Waldman, and Gary Snyder.
An open mike will be available starting at 5:00pm for local writers who wish to
share their work that has been inspired by the Beats.
Music
Jazz music, a major influence on the Beat writers, will be played in
the store courtesy of Mike Lynch of the Pensacola Jazz Society.
Contact
Sponsored by the Back Door Poets. Call Paul Williams at (850) 457-4756 or Mike
Racine (Beatbard@aol.com) for more details.
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