“A free spirit is a divine fuck-up! Be a star-screwer!” - Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso: A Traveler Who Trusted The Bend In The…

"Imagine a world without paintings and books and dance, without theater and all the arts. What a barren wasteland this world would be without all this beauty. This is the stuff of life."

Robert Yarra:  Art is Essential to Life…

"If you want to be in the music business, you don't have to sell your soul to the devil--you just have to lease it for awhile."

Michael Minzer:…

"it was in Greece that I had my spiritual awakening. It was something about the light. The light and the colors..."

Helen Weaver: The Awakener

Helen Weaver was born in 1931 in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up…

"The legacy of the Beats is their words!  Their honest, beautiful words set down on paper, giving comfort and hope to many."

Stephanie Nikolopoulos: Burning Furiously Beautiful

Stephanie Nikolopoulos is…

"A beat motto and what I've learned from the Beats would be: When the going gets weird, procrastinate."

Paavo Hall: The Beat Odyssey

Yale playwright Paavo Hall was born in Bamberg,…

"I want to change the world and writing is one of the best ways to do that."

Michael Sharp: The Fabric of Consciousness

Michael Sharp is a poet, author, mystic, and sociologist. He has penned close to a dozen books and numerous…

"Homer changed, or re-arranged my life.  All the rest seems to be commentary.  Homer gives legs to the journey, pure and simple."

Neeli Cherkovski: The Ithaca of poetry

Neeli Cherkovski is…

Elsa Dorfman:

“Photo” offered me a path to the world.

"Well, the minute I met Irving Rosenthal and he…

"I always remember the first few words William Burroughs spoke to me, at our first meeting… Photography is like Zen Buddhism… why don’t you turn on."

HAROLD CHAPMAN:…

Dario Bellini:

Like to beat the rhythm of blues and jazz, what it means?

Nautical school but, started freelancing with photography and published pictures and reportages on major italian and…