An After-Party

Continued from Jerry Reflections by J.Macon King.

 

And a view of Kristen Stewart!

Photo courtesy Hola Magazine.

Kidding. Sadly On the Road star Kristen Stewart did not show. The man did show me, with excitement, his vintage Verve poetry album by Kerouac, “The Beat Generation.” He put in on the platter and Jack’s back. His soft but urgent intelligent voice. Which, now remembering back gives rise to extemporizing a poem myself:

We drank we danced

and I

the newly minted and de-minted

mad poet

star of stage and bar

was implored to read more!

more of MY poetry

so I did and we did

drink and we partied

smoked and blowed

into the wee hours when

a slinky young lady from FRISCO

pranced from the deck

into the sliding glass door—closed

Wham

and knocked herself out cold

Good times

Kamstra Kerouac and crew

would have fit right in

 

Photo of actual record played at post Beat at the Sweet party.

END

Quick Links:

The 10th plus 1 Anniversary of “Beat at the Sweet.” A Beat Poetry Reading (and music) in Tribute to Jack Kerouac & movie release of On the Road at Mill Valley CA. Sweetwater Music Hall Jan. 8, 2013:

Remembering “Literary Outlaw” Jerry Kamstra by Wallace Baine. 

Jerry Kamstra Obituary by Daniel Yaryan.

Reflections on Jerry Kamstra by J.Macon King.

THE LAST BOHEMIAN WIZARD (in honor of novelist Jerry Kamstra) by Daniel Yaryan. 

 

And then there was this time…

Poems and kind words by Ari M. Maslow upon the occasion of 10th plus 1 Anniversary of “Beat at the Sweet.”

 

 

Beat at the Sweet photos by poet and “Sparring Artists” founder Daniel Yaryan.

The Convoluted Background of Beat at the Sweet.

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