Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland

James Mechem
Beat author and magazine publisher
October 30, 2003
New York City

[photo: James Mechem, Beat Generation writer, Caprice magazine publisher, and native Kansan. 2003. Photograph by Denise Low. Used with permission. All rights reserved.]

James Mechem, Beat Generation writer, *Caprice* magazine publisher, and native Kansan. Born in Wichita, KS in 1923, raised in Topeka; his father was Kirke Mechem, Kansas State Historian. He also started the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC. Photographed by Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate (2007-2009) and chair of the English Department, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS. Used with permission.

James Mechem: Interview by Denise Low, October 29, 2003

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