Beats Unpacked – a quick shout-out on Richard Modiano and Poetry.LA’s on-going video series. Three episodes so far (see below) – (the second takes a note of, makes observations about, Allen, but all are essential viewing). Modiano, as his biography attests, is no stranger to the subject (knowledgeable, self-effacing, a poet himself, sometime director of LA’s, prestigious poetry center, Beyond Baroque
From an interview from back in 2018:
Interviewer: What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?RM: The proudest moment of my tenure as Executive Director of Beyond Baroque has been co-producing Beyond Beat held at Beyond Baroque in 2018. Beyond Beat was a five day festival of events celebrating Beat culture and history with those that were there, and those that are here now with participants gathering from all corners of the U.S. and abroad. Beyond Beat examined the post WWII phenomenon that shaped an entire world as a literary, artistic and philosophical revolution that continues to influence and inspire minds and lives globally. In the words of legendary Beat poet Diane di Prima, “It’s not a generation, it’s a state of mind.”