ModPo Database Artist: Jack Kerouac
![Ron Silliman's overview of Jack Kerouac's influence on Clark Coolidge](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Ron Silliman’s overview of Jack Kerouac’s influence on Clark Coolidge
ModPoPLUS
text: criticism or other
![text of the opening passage of Kerouac's "October in the Railroad Earth"](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
text of the opening passage of Kerouac’s “October in the Railroad Earth”
ModPoPLUS
text: poem or poems
![Jack Kerouac performs the opening passage of "October in the Railroad Earth"](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Jack Kerouac performs the opening passage of “October in the Railroad Earth”
ModPoPLUS
audio: performance
0:02:47
![text-audio alignment of Kerouac's "October in the Railroad Earth"](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
text-audio alignment of Kerouac’s “October in the Railroad Earth”
ModPoPLUS
audio: performance
0:02:47
![Jack Kerouac's comment to Ted Berrigan on "October in the Railroad Earth"](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Jack Kerouac’s comment to Ted Berrigan on “October in the Railroad Earth”
ModPoPLUS
text: biography or profile
![1-minute discussion of whether close reading of babble flow is possible](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
1-minute discussion of whether close reading of babble flow is possible
ModPoPLUS
video: further poem discussion
0:00:59
![discussion of instances of Kerouac's spontaneous prose](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
discussion of instances of Kerouac’s spontaneous prose
ModPoPLUS
video: further poem discussion
0:24:38