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 ...

Beat writers questioned postwar materialism, explored Eastern spirituality and altered consciousness, and celebrated individual freedom and authentic experience in ways that influenced subsequent ...

A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement, also called the Beat Movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti will present an evening of poetry at 8 p.m. Nov. 2 in UCSB Campbell ...

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 ...