Jim Cohn

[2] His role in the history of American Sign Language (ASL) poetics was documented in a 2009 film by Miriam Nathan Lerner entitled The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox.

[5] His entry was "Treasures For Heaven" [6] In 1995, Cohn began recording with The Abolitionists,[7] a North Bay Area band that featured Mooka Rennick and guitarist Steve Kimock.

In 1996, Cohn began planning for an online poetry project that would explore Beat Generation influences on the Postbeat Poets.

[8] Cohn's first video production, the American Poet Greats series, won the Best Multimedia Award from Community Television in Boulder, Colorado three years in a row (2001-2003).

In a 2011 review of Cohn's Sutras & Bardos: Essays & Interviews on Allen Ginsberg, the Kerouac School, Anne Waldman, The Postbeat Poets & the New Demotics, Beat Studies scholar Jonah Raskin wrote "Perhaps no one in the United States today understands and appreciates the poetic durability and the cultural elasticity of the Beats better than Jim Cohn.