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 ...

“Let the cats in,” someone shouted, while an overflow crowd of hundreds pushed against doors barred by anxious college girls. The place was Hunter College Playhouse on November 6, where there was a ...

For two decades, Jami Cassady worked to secure her father's place in Beat history, most notably by fighting to publish the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The name "Kerouac" typically evokes a sense of hip, cool, rebellion, exploration and of course "Beat," as in voice of the Beat Generation. Sign up here. But an exhibit opening on ...

The museum, tucked between two night clubs and kitty corner from City Lights, is filled with enough quirky Beat memorabilia to make it worth an afternoon outing for locals who want a glimpse of what ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An auction of first-edition books, handwritten manuscripts and letters by Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski raised $225,000 to benefit a ...

Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, ...

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 ...