Whalen, Philip.
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Philip Whalen was a Beat poet and a Buddhist Monk.
Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923.
Philip Glenn Whalen was born in 1923 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in The Dalles, Oregon. He served in the United States Army Air Force, then attended Reed College with Gary Snyder and Lew Welch, graduating in 1951. He moved to San Francisco and joined Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others in the San Francisco Renaissance group of poets. His work was published regularly thereafter. Whalen lived primarily in Japan between 1958 and 1971. He returned to California and became a Zen Buddhist monk in 1973, and later an abbot. He wrote more than 20 books, including three novels. He died in 2002.
Philip Whalen (1923-2002) graduated from Reed College in 1951 on the GI Bill after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II. It was at Reed that Whalen met and became friends with poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch. Several years later, Whalen was one of the poets who read with Snyder and others at the historic Six Gallery reading in San Francisco on October 13, 1955. Allen Ginsberg first performed his poem, Howl, at the Six Gallery reading. After spending several years in Japan, Whalen was ordained a Buddhist monk in 1973 and spent two decades in Zen Centers in San Francisco and New Mexico. Whalen wrote nearly two dozen books including "Memoirs of an Interglacial Age," "Like I Say," "On Bear's Head," "The Kindness of Strangers: Poems, 1964-1974," "Canoeing Up Carbarga Creek: Buddhist Poems, 1955-1986," and "Overtime: Selected Poems." He passed away on June 26, 2002.
Poet, novelist.
Philip Whalen (b. 1923) was a contributor to various magazines.
Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923.
American poet.
Philip Whalen, born in Portland, Or. on Oct. 20, 1923, was part of the Beat generation of poets who lived in San Francisco. Before this he had served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and received his B.A. in 1951 from Reed College. Whalen spent much time in Japan and in 1973 became a Buddhist Monk living first in a Monastery in San Francisco and later in Santa Fe, N.M. Philip Whalen died June 26, 2002 in San Francisco, Calif.
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