Search - Artist/Band: Kenneth Patchen

• Name: Kenneth Patchen
• Birthday: 12/13/1911
• Birth Place: Niles, OH
• Died: 01/08/1972
• Decades Active: 1950
• Genre: Vocal Music
• Styles: Beat Poetry, Bop, Poetry, Spoken Word
• Moods: Exuberant, Fiery, Freewheeling, Literate, Rousing, Sophisticated

Title	Release
Rebel Poets of America WA	01/21/2008
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz in Canada WA	08/17/2004

A pre-beat poet of the '30s and '40s, Patchen's work in the '50s was recorded. A bit more down than Kerouac, not hyper like Lenny Bruce, Patchen spoke volumes of love, tragedy, sorrow, and hope. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide