And so starts Ginsberg’s iconic “Howl,” perhaps the best example of the Beat Generation poet’s brilliant and often-tortured mind. Over the course of his epic career, Ginsberg raged against ...

By J. Hoberman Gerd Stern, a Beat Generation poet, pioneering multimedia artist and proponent of sensory overload, whose performances, installations and kinesthetic events involved popular culture ...

the most famous female poet of the Beat Generation, di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. "The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima" is the only film exclusively about her ...

The exhibition focuses on prominent figures in the Beat Generation during the 1960s. Included are images of Bob Thompson and friends, as well as the publications Hymns to St. Geryon by Michael McClure ...