Kenneth Rexroth reading the want ads recorded by Henry Jacobs for KPFA, 1957.
She had poems included in Kenneth Rexroth's 1948 anthology The New British Poets, in whose biographical notes - as well as claiming to be a couple of years younger - she says she 'was on the stage for six years, but now writes for films and radio'.
John Kenneth Galbraith | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth McClintock | Kenneth Grahame | Kenneth Cole | Kenneth Burke | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds | Kenneth Williams | Kenneth Noland | Kenneth Clarke | Kenneth T. Jackson | Kenneth Rexroth | Kenneth Hayne | Kenneth Cranham | Kenneth Cole Productions | Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. | Kenneth Anger | Kenneth Tynan | Kenneth Kaunda | Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking | Kenneth Armitage | Kenneth More | Kenneth Goldsmith | Kenneth Frampton | Kenneth Fisher | Kenneth Connor | Kenneth Rogoff | Kenneth R. Miller | Kenneth Patchen | Kenneth Nicholls |
The Caffè Trieste also becomes a convenient meeting place for Beat movement writers like Lawrence Ferlinghetti (still a regular), Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, Bob Kaufman, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth and Neeli Cherkovski, who lived in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s.
Among notable names influenced by G.R.S. Mead there can be found: Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Kenneth Rexroth, and Robert Duncan.
There, she soon discovered the literary scene in North Beach, where she became friends with many of the area's Beat poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth, Ruth Weiss, and Jack Gilbert.
A graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a degree in Philosophy and studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters, Packard was a presence in the literary circles of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 60's — circles that included Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, and Kenneth Rexroth.