Beat Poet Laureates gather at a previous National and International Beat Poetry Festival. This year’s festival happens Sept. 1-3. Photo courtesy Shaw Israel Izikson.

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 ...

Fascinated by Welch’s poetry, his life and mysterious death, Yost memorized “The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings” years ago, but he hadn’t been able to find a recording of the poet reading it ...

The Beat Poet Laureate honors began in 2015 and include poets at the state, national and international levels. There are also several lifetime laureates, including musician David Amram (a peer and ...

After landing in Concord, Pride was inspired by the poems of Donald Hall to invent the Monitor’s poetry beat. (I like the twist; most people when they hear the words “poetry” and “beat ...

TORRINGTON — Writer Patricia Mason Martin has been named the State of Connecticut National Beat Poet Laureate 2023-25 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation. Martin, who works for Community ...

Royston Ellis, a British Beat poet who rose to fame with spoken-word performances to a rock ’n’ roll accompaniment, including gigs with the Beatles and Jimmy Page before they were famous, died ...