Janine Pommy Vega

Janine Pommy Vega (February 5, 1942 – December 23, 2010) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation.

Early life Janine Pommy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father worked as a milkman in the mornings and a carpenter in the afternoons. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac On the Road, she went with a friend to the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village, where they met Gregory Corso; in 1960, after graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she moved in with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. She also toured with a band called Tiamalu, performing in English and Spanish.

Works Poems to Fernando (1968) Journal of a Hermit (1974); repr. with Under The Sky Morning Passage (1976) Here at the Door (1978) The Bard Owl (1980) Skywriting (1988) Apex of The Earth's Way (1984) Drunk on a Glacier, Talking to Flies (1988) Island of the Sun (1991) Threading the Maze (1992) Red Bracelets (1993) Tracking the Serpent: Journeys to Four Continents (1997) The Road to Your House Is A Mountain Road (1995) The Walker (2003) Mad Dogs of Trieste: New & Selected Poems (2000) The Green Piano (2005) She also published in literary journals such as Earth's Daughters.