Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and political activist who helped launch the Beat movement, died from interstitial lung disease at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embody its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...

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 ...

Seamas Navarro is proof that the Beat movement didn’t die in the ’50s and ’60s.Navarro is a traveling Beat poet in the style of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, but he’s no stereotype. He has a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Poet, publisher, bookseller and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...