The Canadian countercultural icon sits down with Q's Tom Power to talk about his prolific career and his latest poetry ...

At the front of the line of people waiting to pay $5 to get into Kafe Kerouac’s intimate and book-filled performance space, a man asked, “Will I be able to get back in if I leave to smoke a cigarette?

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 ...

“Everybody goes home in October,” wrote Jack Kerouac, the internationally acclaimed, Lowell-born author in his seminal Beat work “On the Road.” And when early October arrives in the old Mill City, ...

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.

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 ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week that Beat ...

LOWELL — The Jack Kerouac Estate and the Kerouac @ 100 Committee has announced the lineup of events for the writer’s centennial celebration starting in March. The celebration of the Beat Generation ...