News at Eleven: Now, San Francisco's poet laureate

may be the best surviving example of the values and dreams of that literary culture, which is slowly being consigned to textbooks.

"I believe that everyone is a poet," the 72-year-old avowed Marxist [Jack Hirschman] says in his booming New York accent. "Everybody is a poet, nobody excluded."

from The Monterey Herald: Beat Generation dwindles, but Hirschman remains

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