Poet and educator the late Neeli Cherkovski, introduced here by Gerald Nicosia, was a great friend. He and David Meltzer came up in the wake of the “original” Beat poets and both men were thus denied some of the accolades and limelight that was accorded others.
Neeli here reads from a 1957 set of poems that Kerouac wrote in homage to what he terms the G…
