The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social conformity through experimental writing that rejected the era’s materialism and ...

Paying homage to Jack Kerouac, leader of the Beat Generation, the Florida Arts Association and BankUnited are celebrating National Poetry Month through the third-annual Kero­WACKED multimedia festival ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

If you came to the poetry reading of Paul Goodman and Allen Ginsberg looking for fresh insights into the famous, fast-growing Beat Generation, then you went way with not much new. It took place at the ...

10 Beat Gen works that hit close to home in America’s political environment The Beat Generation exploded onto the American literary scene in the 1950s, challenging literary conventions and social ...