~GONE BEYOND BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ~

January 8, 1972
Kenneth Patchen, rebel poet and artist ~
died on this day at the age of 61.
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
other Kenneth Patchen links

Kenneth Patchen
Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
A Letter to God by Kenneth Patchen
kenneth patchen picture poems

January 19 1905 ~
BYRON ALTON HUNT
born in Eugene,Oregon

Byron Hunt was an artist, poet, noted story
teller, filmmaker, mail art enthusiast, as well
as a mentor and beloved advisor to artists and poets. During the 1920's Hunt settled in San Francisco into a studio in the “Monkey Block”
(now the Transamerica Pyramid. During the Depression he worked as a weaver for the FAP
and as a sketcher for Diego Rivera at the
Golden Gate International Exposition. 
Artist Harold La Vigne once followed Byron
Hunt around with a movie camera, recording his antics for posterity.
Byron Hunt, original beat poetand trickster, was also the poet who gave Allen Ginsberg"Moloch" that Allen used in Howl. Byron always said, "Allen and I were upon the hill overlooking the financial district and I started jumping up and down waving my arms yelling 'MOLOCH!, MOLOCH!, MOLOCH!' and Allen used it in Howl and never thanked me for it. Some poets are like that". Byron, poet, artist was also a retired postman and walked the
city everyday for miles.
Artist Byron Hunt painted the cover of
Beatitude 33, Silver Anniversary
edited by Jeffrey Grossman.
On June 12, 1993, Byron Alton Hunt
died in Clear Lake, Cal., age 88.
~*~

In the San Francisco daylight
Stood a young man on the street
he was round & smily and wore glasses
This young man had wild eyes
and a room full of color
The real museum of Modern Art
yellow as the sun
red as trees and grass
blue as the sky
fuscia as a ladies behind
orange as the moon
He loves the moon
All in his room at the Goodman Hotel
A True Artist Byron Hunt
Humble man of the people and the street
To know this man is to know heart

by Jack Micheline, Sept. 7, 1977 SF

Obituary for Byron Alton Hunt 
by Tony Vaughan

Jan. 19, 1943
Janis Joplin of Big Brother & the Holding Company.
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