Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates centennial of his birth

March 12, 2022 GMT

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — In the 1950s, Jack Kerouac and fellow writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs came to define a new kind of freewheeling American prose in the midst of an otherwise staid decade.

Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86

October 28, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, has died at age 86...

Review: Ayad Akhtar’s `fever dream’ of a fallen America

By ANN LEVINSeptember 14, 2020 GMT

“Homeland Elegies,” by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown and Company)

An elegy is a mournful poem expressing regret for something lost...

Friday Playlist: Name Drop Songs

Staff ReportMay 30, 2019 GMT

Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Playlist where members of the Times-Tribune staff submit their music picks based on a theme. This week’s theme is Namedropper Songs… Songs that mention (mostly) famous people.

Friday Playlist: Name Drop Songs

Staff ReportMay 30, 2019 GMT

Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Playlist where members of the Times-Tribune staff submit their music picks based on a theme. This week’s theme is Namedropper Songs… Songs that mention (mostly) famous people.