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	On April 2 and 3, 2004, UNC-Chapel Hill's Library will mark a decade of collecting Beat and American avant-garde literature by sponsoring a conference entitled "The Beats in America: Alternative Visions, Then and Now." Through performances, panels, and lectures, the weekend conference will honor the lives and writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Michael McClure, David Amram, and Diane di Prima, among others.
	This Conference is cosponsored by the UNC Library and the North Carolina Writers' Network