Gerald Nicosia

Having moved to San Francisco from Chicago in 1979, Gerald Nicosia became part of the post-Beat circle of poets in the Bay Area, and eventually numbered many of the Beat poets among his close friends. He’s also the author of the classic Kerouac biography MEMORY BABE. Beginning with Lunatics, Lovers, Poets, Vets & Bargirls</em. (1991), he also began publishing books of his own poetry, and this fall will publish the sixth volume, a collection of his poems remembering the Beats called BEAT SCRAPBOOK.