![]() ![]() “ The lone poet as performer and evangelist of personal, social, and political change had been replaced by the rock star and the group. According to writer & independent publisher Stephen Vincent, during this time: ![]() The 1963 Freeway reading at the Old Longshoremen’s Hall in San Francisco’s Tenderloin marked a certain era of West Coast poetry when writers occupied “both the City and the country.” The 1955 North Beach gallery reading, when a cadre of young writers, dubbed the Beats by Kenneth Rexroth, became the canonized poets of their era. In post-World War II San Francisco, art and politics had crystallized into various popular local forms. In the wake of National Poetry Month (April) and in celebration of Asian American Heritage Month (May), here is an excerpt from my book, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2016), and the chapter on Jessica Hagedorn‘s early poetry and performance in 1970s San Francisco. ![]()
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