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.

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 ...

The stories of beat poets helped define a generation. These poets spoke the language of the streets and defied the established literary canons. Poet and author Thomas Rain Crowe was in San Francisco ...

BERKELEY — Michael McClure has lived as an artist in every sense of the word. A Beat Generation figure who was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

At the age of 28, Evan Brown has completed a 10-year quest to find and acquire an exceptionally rare literary artifact. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Contact Paul Grondahl at ...

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 the ...