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 ...

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 ...

Beat Gen works that hit close to home in America’s political environment The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging … ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Michael McClure, one of the famed Beat poets of San Francisco whose career as a poet eclipsed many others in popular culture, has died. He was 87. The San Francisco Chronicle reported ...

From January 24 to March 25, the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery in the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center hosted “Big Paper Beatnik Poems // Inside, Outside, In the Middle, Jazz Be Jazz Be,” an exhibit ...

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 ...

History lovers are invited to jazz up their evenings with Top of the Mark’s Poetry & Jazz Series through April 28, 2015. In honor of the 60th anniversary of poet Allen Ginsberg first public reading of ...