Writer, screenwriter, college instructor, assistant editor for @GhostParachute
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30 Jul 2023
The Writer’s Path 2023 (featuring essays from incredible writers (including me) about the writing journey) is out now! Read it (for free) on Smashwords: smashwords.com/books/view/14…
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9 Jun 2024
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-…
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17 Apr 2024
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/submissio…
#KerouacHouse #WritingResidency
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2 Apr 2024
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/submissio…
#writerslife #writersretreat #amwriting
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Marelize Roets retweeted
9 Mar 2024
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/2024/01/2…
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writersresidency
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5 Feb 2024
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
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1 Jan 2024
(1/6) Let’s be honest, 2023 was rough. It’s astounding to witness, to this day, devastating wars being waged, lives lost and taken, and people suffering severely.
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1 Jan 2024
(6/6) Let’s embrace our shared experiences and the human condition as we strive for true peace.
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1 Jan 2024
(5/6) As the new year starts, let’s maintain our compassion, adaptability, strength, relentlessness, and bravery as we keep fighting for what is just and good. Let’s remember and honor those whose lives have been taken, their loved ones, and ours.
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1 Jan 2024
(4/6) The human condition and our shared experiences make us more alike than we may think. We are all connected through these experiences and we share in grief as we do in love.
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1 Jan 2024
(3/6) What’s more astounding, to me, is how incredibly brave, relentless, strong, adaptable, and compassionate people can be toward each other. In tragedy, we continue to rise up and fight against what is unjust, unequal, and immoral.
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1 Jan 2024
(2/6) Overwhelming fear and exhaustion plague those fighting for their lives, uncertain of what the new day may bring—if another day comes at all.
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Marelize Roets retweeted
8 Nov 2023
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/
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Marelize Roets retweeted
26 Jun 2023
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
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21 Jun 2023
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/
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4 Jun 2023
On June 3, 2007, Kerouac was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from UMass Lowell (@UMassLowell). U.S. Rep./civil rights leader John Lewis gave the commencement address to 2,000 graduates that day. web.archive.org/web/20150402… #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac #JohnLewis
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Marelize Roets retweeted
30 Mar 2023
#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/mo… #Kerouac101 #BeatGeneration
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28 Mar 2023
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/mo… #Kerouac101 #JackKerouac
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2 Mar 2023
So pleased to join @kathyfish @JoyBaglio @ClaudiaPutnam @PatriciaBidar and @anjuna2000 in the new issue of GHOST PARACHUTE up now! With huge thanks to @silasplum for the gorgeous art and @brettpribble and @MRoetsWritrix for the continued support!
ghostparachute.com/issue/mar…
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29 Dec 2022
This year, I met the most broken version of myself but also the strongest. Here’s to continuing the healing journey in 2023.✨
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