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 ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who co-founded the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101. The beloved bookseller who ...

The Hoboken Historical Museum presents “This is Just to Say: Honoring William Carlos Williams” on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 4 p.m. The live event, hosted by the museum’s Poet in Residence, Danny Shot, will ...

Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959. (Soundbite of recording) Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): I saw the best minds of my ...

For more than 25 years, George Krevsky has been working hard to get people to focus on the paintings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Krevsky, a 1962 graduate of Elizabethtown College who owned an art ...

Bobbie Louise Hawkins, a prodigious Beat Generation poet and novelist whose work reverberated with her hardscrabble Texas childhood and her belated liberation from an overbearing husband, died May 4 ...

A Paterson staple, Beat Generation artist Don Kommit, has more to give. The city native, who died in June 2022, left behind nearly 1,600 sketchbooks filled with original drawings and poems spanning ...

PARK CITY, Utah -- Daniel Radcliffe casts off boy wizard Harry Potter to play the voice of the 1950s Beat Generation in new movie "Kill Your Darlings" -- a seductive tale of friendship, gay love and ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Ted Joans, an Illinois-born Beat Generation poet whose work drew from the African-American oral tradition and blended black consciousness with avant-garde jazz ...

Whenever award-winning digital artist Gary Yost rambles around on Mount Tamalpais, which is nearly every day, he religiously recites “The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings,” a poem by the late Beat poet Lew ...

The museum, tucked between two night clubs and kitty corner from City Lights, is filled with enough quirky Beat memorabilia to make it worth an afternoon outing for locals who want a glimpse of what ...