BERKELEY — Michael McClure has lived as an artist in every sense of the word. A Beat Generation figure who was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the ...

It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation.

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 ...

In its early years, Poetry magazine threw its weight behind the Imagist movement, which included now-canonical poets like William "Red Wheelbarrow" Williams, Ezra "the Fascist Sympathizer" Pound, and ...