The Hoboken Historical Museum presents “This is Just to Say: Honoring William Carlos Williams” on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 4 p.m. The live event, hosted by the museum’s Poet in Residence, Danny Shot, will ...

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 ...

Bobbie Louise Hawkins, a prodigious Beat Generation poet and novelist whose work reverberated with her hardscrabble Texas childhood and her belated liberation from an overbearing husband, died May 4 ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti lives in a modest second-story walk-up in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Hanging on his walls are his doctorate from the Sorbonne, an unframed Paul Gaugin print and ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Ted Joans, an Illinois-born Beat Generation poet whose work drew from the African-American oral tradition and blended black consciousness with avant-garde jazz ...

For more than 25 years, George Krevsky has been working hard to get people to focus on the paintings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Krevsky, a 1962 graduate of Elizabethtown College who owned an art ...

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Whenever award-winning digital artist Gary Yost rambles around on Mount Tamalpais, which is nearly every day, he religiously recites “The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings,” a poem by the late Beat poet Lew ...

“On the Road Again” by Tad Friend, was originally published in the October 1995 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. In 1984 I went to ...