During a Thanksgiving retreat up in northern California at a Tibetan Buddhist center, Pema Osel Ling, producer Julie Adler snuck away from the dinner dance party with Peter and fellow dharma comrade, Marc Olmsted to engage them in a conversation about their dual practices of Buddhism and poetry.   Long time friends, the two of them met in the 70s working in the library at San Francisco State University. The famed Allen Ginsberg once said of Marc, "He inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve & Kerouac's movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco."  And Gregory Corso once said of Peter’s work, “Yeah, you made me see it.”   Both Peter and Marc talk about the process of writing, about being Buddhists and about their main inspiration, Allen Ginsberg. 

During a Thanksgiving retreat up in northern California at a Tibetan Buddhist center, Pema Osel Ling, producer Julie Adler snuck away from the dinner dance party with Peter and fellow dharma comrade, Marc Olmsted to engage them in a conversation about their dual practices of Buddhism and poetry.   Long time friends, the two of them met in the 70s working in the library at San Francisco State University. The famed Allen Ginsberg once said of Marc, "He inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve & Kerouac's movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco."  And Gregory Corso once said of Peter’s work, “Yeah, you made me see it.”   Both Peter and Marc talk about the process of writing, about being Buddhists and about their main inspiration, Allen Ginsberg.