This year, I met the most broken version of myself but also the strongest. Here’s to continuing the healing journey in 2023.✨

So pleased to join Kathy Driskell Joy Deva Baglio Claudia Putnam @PatriciaBidar and Katie Coleman in the new issue of GHOST PARACHUTE up now! With huge thanks to Silas Plum for the gorgeous art and Brett Pribble and Marelize Roets for the continued support! ghostparachute.com/issue/march-20…

Jack introduced the term "beat" in 1948. He first heard it in a conversation with street hustler Herbert Huncke (see photo), who used the term to describe a person with little money and few prospects. americanwritersmuseum.org/move-to-the-be… #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac

#JackKerouac was one of the original Beat generation poets, which also included Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs. americanwritersmuseum.org/move-to-the-be… #Kerouac101 #BeatGeneration

On June 3, 2007, Kerouac was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from UMass Lowell (UMass Lowell). U.S. Rep./civil rights leader John Lewis gave the commencement address to 2,000 graduates that day. web.archive.org/web/2015040212… #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac #JohnLewis

Jack's third-written, fourth-published novel, The Subterraneans, was published in 1958. He wrote it in three days and nights in 1953. You can hear him reading an excerpt at: ift.tt/mSq3sdE #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac #TheSubterraneans #BeatGenera… instagr.am/p/Ctu2l3_M2JR/

Jack has been commemorated in infrastructure! Kerouac Park is in Lowell, Mass. Rue Jack-Kerouac is in Quebec City, and there's the hamlet of Kerouac, Lanmeur, Brittany. The city of San Francisco named a one-way street, Jack Kerouac Alley, in Chinatown. #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac

It's the last poetry event in Orlando in 2023. You can read poetry with an improv jazz band backing you up AT THE KEROUAC HOUSE! We're hosting the Jazz and Poetry Jam on Dec. 29, 8 – 10 PM. Read for 5 - 7 minutes with French poet Patrick Sacleux. Info … instagr.am/p/CzZsB_ArKNP/

William Seward Burroughs (Naked Lunch, Junkie) was born on #OTD, Feb. 5, 1914. He co-authored the book, And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks, with #JackKerouac a decade before the two became famous as leading figures of the #BeatGeneration. #Kerouac101 #WilliamSBurroughs

There are less than 5 weeks left to sign up for the 2024-25 writer's residency at the Kerouac House. You get to stay in Jack's house in Orlando for two months and work on your writing project. kerouacproject.org/2024/01/27/wri… #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersresidency

Uninterrupted writing time + a $600 stipend? Yes, please! The Jack Kerouac House residency is your chance to focus on your project. Apply by April 14th: kerouacproject.org/submissions #writerslife #writersretreat #amwriting

Limited residency spots available. We've expanded from four to SIX two-month spots. Don't miss your chance to write at the historic Kerouac House. The deadline has been extended to April 28th! kerouacproject.org/submissions #KerouacHouse #WritingResidency

We're hosting a special Jazz & Poetry Jam THIS SATURDAY at 7 pm at the Kerouac House. Tickets are $10. Shawn Welcome, Orlando's Poet Laureate, will be the emcee, and you can read some of your poetry with jazz in the background, just like Jack used to do. eventbrite.com/e/a-night-of-j…