Paul Donnelly Michael Carroll is one of the patriarchs of the Chicago poetry world and a poet of national stature. He is associated with the Beat movement primarily through his magazine Big Table, which was named by Jack Kerouac and which published sections of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch from an early manuscript sent from Tangier. Big Table, which ran for five issues in 1959 and 1960, also published Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other Beat writers. As a poet Paul Carroll has had works published in several magazines associated with the Beat movement, such as Evergreen Review and City Lights Journal, and he has ascribed the motivation for some of his writing to the Beats. His best-known long poem, "Ode to Severn Darden About Angles, the Common Cold, Nuclear Disarmament, and Popcorn" was, he recalls, written on a roll of teletype paper and began as "a fun tribute...