Producer and Shimmy Disc label founder Kramer is releasing WORDS & MUSIC Book 1, an album featuring spoken word pieces by Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Lipsyte, Terry Southern, Tina May Hall, and ...

Back in 1980, a collection of the plays of Gregory Corso, a young fixture of the Beat scene with pals Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, was set to be published by City Lights Books. The book never ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Gregory Corso, 70, one of the circle of Beat poets that included Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, died of prostate cancer Jan. 17 at a hospital in Robinsdale, Minn. Mr. Corso, who was ...

In many ways, Gregory Corso’s late adolescence mirrors that of the typical University of Chicago student. At 17, he spent hours in a cramped living space with unsavory people; he pored over every book ...

Gregory Corso, the flower of the beat generation, is gone. He has been plucked to grace the Daddy garden and all in heaven are magnified and amused. I first encountered Gregory long ago in front of ...

David Amram [pictured] is one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation scene and a forefather of the countculture movement of the '60s. Not only was the French hornist and composer there ...

Ethan Hawke explains how his love of poetry actually came before his big break in "Dead Poets Society," and shocks Kelly by reciting an excerpt of "Marriage" by Gregory Corso which he still remembers ...

The least known of the Beats comes off as the most appealing in Gustave Reininger’s enthralling docu “Corso — the Last Beat.” The helmer, best known for his collaborations with Michael Mann (most ...

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MINNEAPOLIS - Poet Gregory Corso, one of the circle of Beat poets who included Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has died. He was 70. Corso, who had been suffering from prostate cancer, died on ...