Alan Kaufman

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1. Alan Kaufman

   Author of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays

2. Charles Bukowski

   Author of Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit, War All the Time: Poems, 1981-1984

3. Allen Ginsberg

   Author of Howl and Other Poems, Collected Poems 1947-1980, Selected Poems 1947-1995 [Allen Ginsberg]

4. Nicole Blackman

   Author of Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets

5. Dave Eggers

   Author of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

6. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

   Author of A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Paperback No. 74), City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

7. Jack Kerouac

   Author of The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, The Portable Jack Kerouac (The Viking Portable Library)

8. William S. Burroughs

   Author of Naked Lunch, Junky, Exterminator!

9. Saul Williams

   Author of Said the Shotgun to the Head, She

10. Sylvia Plath

    Author of Collected Poems, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

11. Diane Di Prima

    Author of Memoirs of a Beatnik, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

12. Ann Charters

    Author of The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)

13. Hunter S. Thompson

    Author of Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk

14. Brenda Knight

    Author of Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

15. Tony Medina

    Author of Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam

16. Billy Collins

    Author of The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation

17. Paul Hoover

    Author of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology

18. Anne Waldman

    Author of The beat book

19. Jim Carroll

    Author of The Basketball Diaries

20. Abraham B. Yehoshua

    Author of A Woman in Jerusalem, The Lover, A Late Divorce