June 1959 CBS News radio report
by Charles Kuralt on the Greenwich Village poetry scene. Here, Kuralt visits
the famed Gaslight Café, 116 MacDougal Street, in the Village, which featured
such poets as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso; unfortunately, they weren’t on
stage that evening and instead Kuralt happens upon the single worst poet in the
city. The Gaslight operated from 1958 through 1971 – from the peak of the Beat
era through its tail end when the hippies moved in on their turf. Decidedly
squaresville man, but Kuralt provides a quick capture of the media's view of
the Beatniks at the height of their cultural significance.
Available on Volume Three of
Rhino Record’s The Beat Generation (1992)
and posted from my personal archives to the Aeolus 13 Umbra YouTube channel:
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