NEW SERIES: An occasional feature in which writers and academics, commentators and followers, remember and reflect upon an encounter with a member of the Beat Generation
US filmmaker Karen Kramer comments: ‘Simon, I love this post. The house where Gregory grew up is about 100 yards from where I live and I pass it all the time. It is a non-descript building on Bleecker and I always wish the City would put up a plaque for him. In our film, a young poet walks by his building and looks longingly at it. Hettie Jones, in her interview, references him as “the bad boy of the Village”.’
Kramer’s acclaimed documentary The Renegade Legacy of Bleecker and MacDougal will be screened in New York City on March 19th, 2023.
US filmmaker Karen Kramer comments: ‘Simon, I love this post. The house where Gregory grew up is about 100 yards from where I live and I pass it all the time. It is a non-descript building on Bleecker and I always wish the City would put up a plaque for him. In our film, a young poet walks by his building and looks longingly at it. Hettie Jones, in her interview, references him as “the bad boy of the Village”.’
Kramer’s acclaimed documentary The Renegade Legacy of Bleecker and MacDougal will be screened in New York City on March 19th, 2023.