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 ...

In the late 1940s, tired and malnourished, the Beat poet and artist Gerd Stern committed ... ratty buffalo fur coat and a cowboy hat. When I asked the doorman for Otto Stern, apartment 96, stating ...

Historian and professor Edward Carson, labor and community organizer Shoshana Bollinger, Haverhill Poet Laureate Dan Speers; State of Maine Beat Poet Laureate Claire Conroy and New England Poetry ...

Burroughs, Corso, Snyder, Huncke – I grew to love the wild, psychedelic rhythms and spacings of their poetry, though I think now that even Beat Generation die-hards would agree that some of their ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

The 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival kicks off today in Austin, TX, and below are 19 films that we at Filmmaker are ...

Rituals Keep Parents’ Hope Alive The double doors are closed to Three North at Stanford Children’s Hospital, where my daughter Madison is supposed to get her chemotherapy. It’s our second session, ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

WHAT: La Sociedad para Las Artes at New Mexico State University will host a public reading event for New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp as part of the Nelson-Boswell ... Disclaimer: If you find ...

It was later finessed by the beat poets of the 1960s, with poetry “slams” beginning in the 1980s. The sub-genre has gained particular prominence in African American communities as a medium for ...