That means an entire week of poetry, music and workshops here in the DMV! “Words Beats & Life originated in 2002 as a program that our founder and his co-founders were doing at the University of ...

Urban Beat launched a new event Sunday called “Pzazz ... An Afternoon of Poetry and Jazz,” featuring women performers in recognition of International Women’s Day.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading ...

Whenever award-winning digital artist Gary Yost rambles around on Mount Tamalpais, which is nearly every day, he religiously recites “The Song Mount Tamalpais Sings,” a poem by the late Beat poet Lew ...

Performance-capture poetry film adapts Gossom’s book The Human Equation for the screen. Poetry lives on the page, but ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and ...