By J. Hoberman Gerd Stern, a Beat Generation poet, pioneering multimedia artist and proponent of sensory overload, whose performances, installations and kinesthetic events involved popular culture ...

Spoken word first kicked off with the American Beat Poet movement that took place in the 1940s and 1950s. This saw a group of authors in New York using their work to exploring and influence the ...

Its significant highs have included the 50s jazz club beat poets 'Ginsberg' era; the 60s pop poets, the punk poets of the 70s, the art school poets of the 80s and now it finds itself in the midst ...