February is National Haiku Writing Month. According to a definition accepted by the Haiku Society of America, a haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an ...

In the New Criterion this week, Bruce Bawer recycles the classic conservative screed against the Beats by way of lamenting the publication of Jack Kerouac’s collected poetry by the Library of America.

In 1958, Jack Kerouac, author of On The Road and other novels and books of poetry, wrote “Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials.” It started in a letter to Don Allen, and was ...

It’s the 19th season of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! This weekend a poetry contest, pub tour, open mikes and films of Jack Kerouac’s Lowell will attract Kerouacians of all stripes. Festivities in honor ...

I discovered jazz and Jack Kerouac at roughly the same time in my teens back in the early 1970s, when his seminal novel On The Road (Viking, 1957) hooked me into the bohemian world of jazz clubs, ...

Founded by Trungpa Rinpoche in 1974, Colorado's Naropa University is the first fully accredited Buddhist-inspired university in the United States. The school is world famous not only for its promotion ...

Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to become his obsessions. During ...

The words that jump off the page speak of joy and wonderment and reckless, inebriated fun, of characters as wild and colorful as fireworks. The book, "On the Road," became an overnight sensation, a ...