"Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them."

“He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle — a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.”

“The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing”

“webcast from University of California”

“During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War.”

“The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.”

“We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture.”