The most original literary anthology of the year! Action Poetry roars forth with the energy and unpredictability of an online flash mob. Representing the voice of today's interconnected age with the words of more than fifty new writers, Action Poetry will leave you wondering what else the mainstream doesn't want you to know about. Action Poetry is meant to be enjoyed, read aloud, puzzled over, but not forgotten. Foreword by David Amram.

How does a 40-year-old literary generation suddenly become relevant again? It happened in the mid-1990s, when popular interest in Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and the rest of the colorful, profane gang exploded around the United States of America and the entire world. Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, was there to witness it all, standing at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. BEATS IN TIME, a new collection of essays and interviews from the archives of Literary Kicks, captures some of the freshest, most insightful...