Literary Kicks
Founded in 1994 by Levi Asher, Literary Kicks functions as a digital library of poetry and prose, biography and cultural criticism. The theme is the Beat Generation, from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, William S. Burroughs and all their friends and associates through to current writings of extant Beat genre and milieu.Since 1996 Literary Kicks has hosted poetry readings in New York City.
In 1998, LitKicks Publishing, was created. The first LitKicks publication was a digital video, named Notes From Underground, a reference to the Fyodor Dostoevsky story of the same name. LitKicks website hosts literary discussions, boards and lists, and a digital library of articles includes themes of:
- Beat Generation
- The Global Scene
- Transcendental America
- Alternative Victorian
- African-American Lit
- The Breakfast Club
- Jazz Age
- Postmodern Transgressive
- La Boheme
- Haiku and Eastern Poetry
- Russian Lit
- Summer of Love
- Children's Literature and more, all contributed by members.