It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation.

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her ...

This is really a saloon of the Beat Generation, whose opening predates neighbor City Lights by five years. The perfect location for folks to drink, listen to jazz and read poetry, Vesuvio may be ...

Johnny Depp was given a Lifetime New Generation Beat Poet Laureate Award by the foundation last year, though he has yet to attend a festival. The actor accepted the award via a three-minute video ...

and Joni Mitchell who were stuck between music and poetry, were direct products of their Beat ancestors. Transcendentalism ...

By Michael S. Rosenwald Neeli Cherkovski, a prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos of bohemian culture in biographies of Beat Generation writers, including ...

Interspersed throughout the collection are important, smaller items, like signed prints by Gary Snyder, one of the last poets of the Beat Generation. You can also see an authentic ACID Test Card ...

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 ...

(Courtesy of Gary Yost) A college roommate of poet Gary Snyder, Welch was once described as “one of the great enigmas of the Beat generation.” While working for an advertising agency after ...

Burroughs, the elder statesman of the Beat generation. The charges were later ... a year traveling the country in a VW bus, reading poetry in storefronts, galleries and universities.