The Beat Generation Symposium
October 10 - 11, 2008
Sponsored by the Beat Studies Association, Columbia College Chicago Department of English, and Illinois State University
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
Conference Director: Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago
The Beat Generation Symposium will include academic panel discussions, a lecture and performance titled “Deaf/Def Poets and the Beats,” and readings of poetry by Joanne Kyger (October 10, 7:00 p.m.) and Diane di Prima (October 11, 7:00 p.m.).
The symposium is part of a two-month college-wide initiative at Columbia College, during which time the first draft of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road will be on display at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 South Wabash, on the second floor.
Kerouac typed the draft on a 120-foot-long scroll during a 20-day marathon session in the mid-'50s. The manuscript is a single, continuous scroll of semi-translucent paper that is nine inches wide. Kerouac created the scroll by pasting and taping separate 12-foot-long strips, then feeding them through his typewriter so he could write without interruption.
CONTACT US
Tony Trigilio, Director of Creative Writing—Poetry
Columbia College Chicago English Department
(312) 344-8138, ttrigilio@colum.edu
For information on your stay in Chicago, call the Ticket Center: (312) 344-6600
Sponsored by the Beat Studies Association, Columbia College Chicago Department of English, and Illinois State University
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
Conference Director: Tony Trigilio, Columbia College Chicago
The Beat Generation Symposium will include academic panel discussions, a lecture and performance titled “Deaf/Def Poets and the Beats,” and readings of poetry by Joanne Kyger (October 10, 7:00 p.m.) and Diane di Prima (October 11, 7:00 p.m.).
The symposium is part of a two-month college-wide initiative at Columbia College, during which time the first draft of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road will be on display at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1104 South Wabash, on the second floor.
Kerouac typed the draft on a 120-foot-long scroll during a 20-day marathon session in the mid-'50s. The manuscript is a single, continuous scroll of semi-translucent paper that is nine inches wide. Kerouac created the scroll by pasting and taping separate 12-foot-long strips, then feeding them through his typewriter so he could write without interruption.
CONTACT US
Tony Trigilio, Director of Creative Writing—Poetry
Columbia College Chicago English Department
(312) 344-8138, ttrigilio@colum.edu
For information on your stay in Chicago, call the Ticket Center: (312) 344-6600