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 ...

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 ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookseller whose San Francisco store City Light Books was the nexus of the Beat movement in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday at age 101. Ferlinghetti died of lung ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...

One night in the 1950s Diane di Prima was at a party at Allen Ginsberg's place in New York City. It was usual poet stuff — talking, reading, smoking, drinking — until 11:30 p.m. came around and di ...

FILE - Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti appears in Oct. 8, 1988. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the ...