Tag: PEN American Center

• Hettie Jones: Prisons & Poets

  This article originally appeared on Literary Kicks, May 1, 2008  In New York’s Greenwich Village, from 1957 to 1963, poets Hettie Jones and her then-husband LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka) published a magazine called Yugen, showcasing poetry and writings by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, and others.…

  Bill Ectric

  September 2, 2016

  Amiri Baraka, beat generation, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Hettie Jones, LeRoi Jones, New School in New York, PEN, PEN American Center, Totem Press, writing, writing workshop