Overview Philip Glenn Whalen (1923-2002) attended Reed on the GI Bill after serving in the Army Air Forces in World War II. Graduating in 1951, he moved to San Francisco and participated in the "Beat Poet" group, publishing many volumes of poetry and living in Japan from 1958 through 1971. Whalen returned to San Francisco to become a Zen Buddhist monk and, later, abbot. His manuscript collection contains correspondence to him up through 1965 and manuscripts of several of his books. Letters received...