Berks Bards and Berks Arts, the presenter of Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest, are celebrating Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month with a special event. Beat Poetry Night will take place on Thursday at 5 ...

When the word “beat” is used in the context of the arts, it’s usually in reference to the Beat Generation writers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and William S.

Michael McClure, a pioneer of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-1950s that laid the foundation for the hippie counterculture of the 1960s, has died at the age of 87. A poet, novelist, playwright and ...

BERKELEY — Michael McClure has lived as an artist in every sense of the word. A Beat Generation figure who was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the ...

Why it’s daunting: Few art movements are as ripe for parody as the Beat generation. Thanks to the likes of Maynard G. Krebs, Scooby-Doo’s Shaggy, and Mike Myers’ jazz poet in So I Married An Axe ...

The original Beat movement of the 1950s and ‘60s gave us Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Michael McClure’s play “The Beard” and reams of other lively radical writings. But that ...

The stories of beat poets helped define a generation. These poets spoke the language of the streets and defied the established literary canons. Poet and author Thomas Rain Crowe was in San Francisco ...

Jack Micheline was one of the first Beat poets–but you wouldn’t want to call him that to his face. Micheline was raised in the Bronx, in a Russian immigrant neighborhood that he called “Siberia in the ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the founder of San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Books and an integral figure in the Beat poetry movement, has died. The publisher and activist’s son, Lorenzo Ferlinghetti told ...

At the age of 28, Evan Brown has completed a 10-year quest to find and acquire an exceptionally rare literary artifact. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Contact Paul Grondahl at ...