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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about media culture, theory, and history with a focus on the offbeat and avant-garde. Poet and playwright Michael McClure, ...

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 ...

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 that McClure ...

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 ...

Peter Buck’s made a point of keeping busy since the final demise of REM in 2011, lending his talents to any number of combos and collaborations while bringing each a higher profile in the process. A ...

Michael McClure, who took part in a 1955 San Francisco poetry reading that is considered the founding moment of the Beat generation and who went on to collaborate with rock musicians such as Janis ...

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 ...