Berks Bards and Berks Arts, the presenter of Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest, are celebrating Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month with a special event. Beat Poetry Night will take place on Thursday at 5 ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who co-founded the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101. The beloved bookseller who ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died last month just 30 days shy of his 102nd birthday, lived a life of fascinating contradictions. From a Dickensian childhood — his father died before he was born, and his ...
C.S. Miller Books will host Beat Poet Charles Plymell and Guests for reading and book signing at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 12, in C.S. Miller Book Shop, located at 14 Adams Street, Norwich. (Submitted ...
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 ...
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 ...
The state of Oregon has had six poets laureate since 2006, when new funds became available to reinstate the position. That person is appointed by and serves “at the pleasure of the Governor.” Now, we ...
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 ...
HAVERHILL — Residents and visitors alike enjoyed an evening of poetry, popcorn, art and community connection April 18 at the Community Poetry & Art Gathering at Cogswell ArtSpace, 351 South Main St.