Berks Bards and Berks Arts, the presenter of Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest, are celebrating Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month with a special event. Beat Poetry Night will take place on Thursday at 5 ...

Every final Friday of the month, the berets and black sweaters come out in full force at {9} The Gallery as the Phoenix Poetry Series hosts a poetry night that is helping Phoenix's poetry scene get ...

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.

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 ...