Beat Scene, Issue 86, Early Summer 2017

Includes "Roy Pennington on Mayfair Academy Series More or Less" by Jed Birmingham, pp. 4-6, originally published on RealityStudio on August 10, 2009. 

At pages 48-50, Kevin Ring interviews Prof. Oliver Harris on the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN) and his Burroughs scholarship.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2017.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20170700BSCE.0.86

Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of the Elik Press book Dear Carolyn: Letters – From Carolyn Cassady to Jim Jones
• Jed Birmingham and Roy Pennington: "Roy Pennington on Mayfair Academy Series More of Less" (interview)
• Tom Swift: 
• "John Sampas and the Jack Kerouac Estate" (essay)
• "Tom Raworth" (essay)
• "Purple Moonlight Pages" (essay)
• Ashley Crawford, Ed Southorn, and Gary Snyder: "Zen and the Art of Gary Snyder" (interview)
• Garrett Caples and Michael McClure: "Wichita Vortex Interview: Outtakes from My Conversation with Michael McClure" (interview)
• Elyssa East: "Hunting Among Stones: How a Trip to Dig in Mexico's Mayan Ruins Transformed Charles Olson's Writing" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs: "Richard Brautigan and The Return of the Rivers" (essay)
• Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, and Kenneth Rexroth: "Kenneth Rexroth: A Voice Moving Free" (essay)
• Steve Hopkins: "My Poems Are the Body of My Mind: Kenneth White and the Beats" (essay)
• Paul Maher, Jr.: "Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "W. H. Manville: Cool, Hip and Sober" (essay)
• Jed Birmingham: "A Trip to Charles Olson's Gloucester" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Joanne Kyger, 1934-2017" (memorial)
• review of Nic Saunders' film The Good Blonde
• review of Bruce Connor: The Afternoon Interviews with V. Vale
• review of Evergreen Review, Issue 2 [San Francisco Scene]
• Kevin Ring and Oliver Harris: "European Beat Studies Network" (interview)
• John Tytell: "Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats & Drugs" (review of the book by Martin Torgoff)
• Michael Kearns: review of First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg, edited by Michael Schumacher

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Erin Ring, Pauline Reeves
• Instagram: Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters
• USA: Richard Miller
• Brian Dalton: review of Bruce Wilkinson's Hidden Culture, Forgotten History: A Northern Poetic Underground and Its Countercultural Impact