TORRINGTON — Writer Patricia Mason Martin has been named the State of Connecticut National Beat Poet Laureate 2023-25 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation. Martin, who works for Community Health & ...
Bobbie Louise Hawkins, a prodigious Beat Generation poet and novelist whose work reverberated with her hardscrabble Texas childhood and her belated liberation from an overbearing husband, died May 4 ...
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 ...