authenticated through his mentor and influence, Loren Eiseley. His other influences included Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, Robert Ronnie Branaman, and Samuel Coleridge. He did not meet the Beats until 1963 when associated with Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs. His Vortex is written about in his Tent Shaker Vortex Voice. Before that he considered himself a hipster and outsider. Plymell moved to a quiet Russian neighborhood in 1962 at the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. After the neighborhood filled with hippies and was taken over, Plymell moved to a famous flat, 1403 Gough Street. It was there at Plymell's LSD party that the Beats met the Hippies. Promptly Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady moved in with him where Plymell played Bob Dylan to Ginsberg for the first time.<ref>Ginsberg quote from the Martin Scorsese documentary film about Dylan, No Direction Home.</ref> It was during that time Plymell made two films that were shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and his collages, which opened at the "Batman Gallery" where fellow Wichitans Bob Branaman and Bruce Conner had shown. Plymell's show sold out except for a few pieces that ended up in Australia. Billy "Batman" Jahrmarkt gave Plymell his classic 1951 MGTD. His work Robert Ronnie Branaman, published in 1964, is credited with being an early example of underground comix. Recently Plymell's book Benzedrine Highway was published by Norton Records/Kicks Books. He has been writing poems used as songs by Andrea Schroeder (Berlin); Mike Watt & Sam Dook (U.K.) They recently featured one of his songs on their CUZ tour. He has also written songs for Clubberlanggang, and is working on a book with his poems for Neal Cassady and Bob Branaman put to rockabilly by Bloodshot Bill of Norton Records. Plymell holds an M.A. Degree in Arts and Sciences from Johns Hopkins University, 1970. BooksApocalypse Rose, Auerhahn Press, 1967Neon Poems, Atom Mind Publications, 1970The Last of the Moccasins, City Lights Books, 1971; Mother Road Publications, 1996The Trashing of America Phase 1, Tuvoti, 1973Over the Stage of Kansas, Telephone Books, 1973The Trashing of America, Kulchur Foundation, 1975Blue Orchid Numero Uno, Telephone Books, 1977Are you a Kid?, Cherry Valley Editions, 1977Moccasins Ein Be*Cut Here, at-Kaleidoskop, Europaverlag, 1980Panik in Dodge City, Expanded Media Editions, 1983The Harder They Come, Am Here Books 1985Forever Wider, 1954–1984, Scarecrow Press, 1985Was Poe Afraid?, Bogg Publications, 1990.journals of Lysidia, Synesthesia Press, 1999Reefer Madness in the