Hettie Jones dies at 90

Passing of a great Beat activist

Hettie Jones, a significant player among the New York City Beats in the 1950s and 1960s as poet, editor and later autobiographer, also partner of and collaborator with LeRoi Jones, has died aged 90.

A co-founder of the literary journal Yugen, she also launched Totem Press. Born Hettie Cohen, her own life story was famously related in her 1990 book How I …