From January 24 to March 25, the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery in the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center hosted “Big Paper Beatnik Poems // Inside, Outside, In the Middle, Jazz Be Jazz Be,” an exhibit ...

An infestation of snails, a spider chef’s “fresh fly pie,” rather rude flocks of “polka bats” and a shampoo-selling “bathtub driver” with a one-legged duck--these creations from Calef Brown’s wacky ...

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 ...

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 fifth grade students of Cassi Swanson held a poetry slam recently in the Baker Central cafeteria, which was transformed, by decorations and dim lights, into a 1950’s Beatnik coffee shop. Standing ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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 ...

Beth Marshall missed being a child of the 1960s by just one year. “I really feel like I was born a decade too late,” she said. “I was born in 1970, and I feel like I should have been around during ...

Hey, did you know it’s National Poetry Month? Ok, it’s also National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, National Child Abuse Prevention Month and National Safe Digging Month (WTF??), but we didn’t figure ...