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 ...

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 ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of ...

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 ...

Michael McClure, who at 22 helped usher in the Beat movement as part of a famed poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, then went on to a long and varied career as a poet, playwright ...