Beat Poet Laureates gather at a previous National and International Beat Poetry Festival. This year’s festival happens Sept. 1-3. Photo courtesy Shaw Israel Izikson.

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...

Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader ...

For Julie Clayton, winner of Missouri's 2024 Poetry Out Loud competition, ... Hearing dad's drumming on the steering wheel in a poem's beat. Gannett. Julie Clayton. June 16, ...

TORRINGTON — Writer Patricia Mason Martin has been named the State of Connecticut National Beat Poet Laureate 2023-25 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation. Martin, who works for Community ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...