Where there is culture, there is counterculture. And so, to understand what the members of the Beat Generation wanted, it is ...

The exhibition focuses on prominent figures in the Beat Generation during the 1960s. Included are images of Bob Thompson and friends, as well as the publications Hymns to St. Geryon by Michael McClure ...

St. Petersburg, Fla. (UPI) — Novelist Jack Kerouac, father of the literary “beat generation” of the 1950s and reluctant godfather to today’s hippie movement, died early Tuesday of a ...

Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and ...

Discover the NYC homes and haunts of 10 famous poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Patti Smith to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and the Beat Generation writers. Many notable characters of Greenwich ...