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.

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 ...

Influenced by Beat poets who revolutionized the art in the 1950s and '60s, the 37-year-old busking bard sets up shop in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and other areas in the city and elsewhere ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adair points out that the chorus is more syncopated than the rest of the song — which means Swift uses many more syllables for the same beat. “It gives this rushed quality,” she says.

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 ...

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Adair points out that the chorus is more syncopated than the rest of the song — which means Swift uses many more syllables for the same beat. “It gives this rushed quality,” she says.