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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his apprentice years as a farmer-poet, Patrick Kavanagh’s key influences were Ezra Pound and fellow “provincial” William Carlos Williams, then later WH Auden and The Bell.

In 1949, the same year that he won Canada’s highest literary award for poetry, A.M. (Abraham Moses) Klein undertook a fact-finding mission to the newly established state of Israel, to which ...