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DESCRIPTION:Harold Norse, the legendary queer beat poet, political activist and writer, 
 will make a rare public appearance this Sunday, March 16, starting at 2:00 
 pm at the Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, in North Beach. He will be introduced 
 by his good friend and fellow poet Neeli Cherkovski.\n\nWhen Harold spoke 
 last July at the Beat Museum, so many of his admirers came out to hear him 
 that it was a standing room only occasion. I was there and the reading was 
 truly a unique "only in San Francisco" event, brimming with colorful local 
 characters proud of our off-beat culture and writers.\n\nCome out this 
 Sunday and join the special celebration of Harold's long life and many 
 books. This icon of the queer community and literary world is a spry 
 91-years-old. He's also an entertaining story-teller and he deserves the 
 veneration of an appreciative audience.\n\nHere are excerpts from the Beat 
 Museum's biography of Harold:\n\nBorn 1916, New York City. B.A., Brooklyn 
 College 1938; M.A., New York University 1951. At age 22 in 1939 he became a 
 member of W. H. Auden's inner circle, cited by scholar/critic Nicholas 
 Jenkins in The New Yorker, April 1, 1996. William Carlos Williams called 
 him "the best poet of your generation." The 10-year correspondence between 
 Norse and Williams (1951-1961) was published by Bright Tyger, San Francisco 
 1990. [...] \n\nThat year City Lights published Norse's Hotel Nirvana: 
 Selected Poems, establishing him among the leading Beat poets. He was 
 nominated for the 1974 National Book Award.\n\nNorse lived in the "Beat 
 Hotel" in Paris, 1960-63, with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and 
 Gregory Corso. There he wrote his experimental cut-up novel, Beat Hotel, 
 published in German by Maro Verlag, Augsburg 1973, now in its 30th 
 printing. [...]\n\nWith Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941-1976, Gay 
 Sunshine Press 1977, Norse became the leading gay liberation poet. His 
 Memoirs of a Bastard Angel (William Morrow), 1989, preface by James 
 Baldwin, further established his reputation. [...]\n\nNorse has produced 12 
 books of poetry and 3 of prose. He has received 2 NEA poetry grants and a 
 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Poetry Association.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485592.php
SUMMARY:Queer Beat Poet Harold Norse's North Beach Reading
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\n540 Broadway (at Columbus)\nNorth Beach, San 
 Francisco\n1-800-537-6822
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/14/18485592.php
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