It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation.

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 ...

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 ...

In the world of poetry slams, a spoken-word art form that grew out of Chicago pubs in the early 1980s, poets derived their vocal delivery style from hip-hop and rap, drawing on the tradition of dub ...

Philip Whalen, a seminal member of the Beat poets who began a San Francisco poetry renaissance in the 1950s, died Wednesday morning in San Francisco after a long illness. Mr. Whalen, who was ordained ...

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.

What is the "use" of poetry? Or, as more than one author has asked, Can Poetry Matter? More than 50 years ago, renowned American poet William Carlos Williams wrote famously that "It is difficult/ to ...