Recently had the pleasure of being one of the opening acts for a play at St. John’s University called “Jack Kerouac, Catholic” . Idea was for me to read one of my in honor of Kerouac poems (see What I Would Have Called Him and Dreams of Kerouac in Words section of my site) but decided to also list some of the ways that this writer influenced so much of what came after him (my small attempt to “educate” the undergrad audience that night). I created a sheet called “Jack Kerouac: How to Influence Modern Culture Without Really Trying” and Kathi Georges (the play’s fab director) gave it out with the program that night. Here’s a copy and you can click on it to see it better:
