This issue of Beatdom is devoted to the San Francisco Renaissance. It includes essays on Robert Duncan, ruth weiss, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and many other poets who called San Francisco home in the middle of the 1950s. Table of Contents Essays Blowing Beats in the Basement: Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, and the Poetry Readings in the Cellar, by Leon Horton The 6 Gallery Reading and the San Francisco Renaissance, by David S. Wills "Before That Whole Beat Thing Happened": ruth weiss' First Years in San Francisco, by Thomas Antonic Madeline Gleason: The Romantic Rhyming Radical, by Ryan Mathews Rexroth and Kerouac: An Antidote of Sorts, by James K. Hanna The Monk in the "Beat-Fold", by John Marshell In Search of the Good Blonde, by Brett Sigurdson The San Francisco Renaissance and Far Eastern Religions, by Peter Oehler Beginner's Mind: A Re-reading of Allen Ginsberg's Revolutionary "Howl", by Jonah Raskin A.D. Winans on the Counterculture, by A.D. Winans Festivals of Poetry, 1947-1952, by Tom Cantrell "It's Not My Scene": The Evolving Poets and Poetics of the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances and the Beat Generation, by Ryan Mathews Duncan Among The "Stars": An Essay on Robert Duncan's Poetics of "Open Form" (Part II), by Yorio Hirano Memoirs The Beat Poet Spills It Out, by Henri Bensussen Ghost Mantras: Michael McClure Remembered, by D.S. Black Poetry Poem for ruth weiss, by A.D. Winans Remembering Bob Kaufman, by A.D. Winans Lifting the Light from the Jade Green Waves Below, by Paul W. Jacobs (Jake) Poems for Jack Micheline, by A.D. Winans Reviews To Find Dawn's Moon, by David S. Wills