Sarah E. Moffett

Haiku for Jack
by Robin Stratton
i
Fifty years ago
published his book On the Road
one long hand-typed scroll.
Traveled cross country
scored chicks with Neal Cassidy
hipster beat poet
ii
Started a movement
irreverent attitude
Catholic Buddhism
Defiant and bold
He died a fat, sloppy drunk
Republican, too
*Robin Stratton lives in Boston and teaches creative writing classes using the techniques in her book, The Revision Process. Her work […]

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William Burroughs would have loved where I was last night.
 Sitting on 14th & T Street at Cafe Saint-Ex last night, I was inspired. Maybe it was the ambiance of honking, irritated drivers, the disheveled, swaying Happy Hour participants or the amount of Jim Beam in my “Kentucky ice tea,” but the evening felt like the end […]

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix;
Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
Fastest cure to insanity? Read someone crazier than yourself.
Last night I sat down to read […]

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The literary world is buzzing. For once it is not wizards and vampires that are grabbing the columnists and publicists attention, but a fifty-six year old manuscript prosaically dubbed, On the Road: The Original Scroll.

In other words, hi Jack. You’ve been missed.
Yes, yes, I know July was officially Jack Kerouac Awareness Month, or thus saith […]

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Barnes & Nobles of…
Colorado Springs, CO
Loveland, CO
Week 9.
Seven hours of traveling, 59 blackberry e-mails, and six voicemails later, I’ve realized there is an upside to traveling. You are incommunicado.
I wonder if my publisher would pay for a book event in Hong Kong.
With this positive perspective, Kerouac, the laptop, the favorite pen, and I took to […]

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