Zen in the Art of Beat Poetry: the influence of Buddhism on Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder.

A lecture and reading by Kendall Alan Dunkelberg, (Fulbright Professor at KU Leuven and Lessius Hogeschool)
It is our pleasure and privilege to be able to invite you to a lecture and reading by Fulbright Professor Kendall Alan Dunkelberg on Zen in the Art of Beat Poetry: the influence of Buddhism on Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder.

Professor Dunkelberg received his Ph.D. in Language and Literature from the University of Texas, Austin, and now teaches American Literature, Twentieth Century poetry and Creative Writing at the Mississippi University for Women at Columbus MS.
He is also a talented poet in his own right (e.g. ‘Landscapes and Architectures: Poems’, Florida Literary foundation Press, 2001) and a published translator of a.o. Paul Snoek’s poems and new Dutch and Flemish writing into English.


With the Beat bookshop here in Antwerp last year and the Beats performance by Josse De Pauw still ringing in our ears, there is probably no better time for a talk about Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder at the crossroads of East and West in San Francisco.

Kendall Dunkelberg will be looking with us at the following texts (which can be found on the website):


Allen Ginsberg:
Sunflower Sutra
Supermarket in California

Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues: 113th, 127th, 146th, 179th, 182nd, 183rd, 211th, 219th, 221st, and 225th Choruses

Gary Snyder:
Myths & Texts, Part III
Burning 1-10