Social media users are again debating the merits of Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles-based writer known for his poetry describing a coarse, often boorish version of American masculinity replete ...

On Friday, Pete called our attention to a lovely poem by Beat poet Gary Snyder called “Why I Take Good Care of My Macitosh,” which features lovely stanzas like: And puts word-heaps in hoards for me, ...

In an extremely candid conversation, gutter poet Charles Bukowski talks with his wife and the producer of his reader, Run with the Hunted, about how creativity consumed him. If he wasn’t writing, he ...

Everybody comes to Charles Bukowski in their own way. In my life, it has been in two, distinct phases. The first was during my senior year of college when I was working at a campus bar and became ...

Tom Waits’s music has always been a beacon to those with vagabond souls, his inimitably gravelly, smoky, hoarse voice oddly soothing as he croons about the downtrodden and debauched. Thus there’s no ...

Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski was notorious for his drinking and womanizing. Some called him a misogynist. But his work could also be tender and reveal truths about the human condition. Years ago ...

Charles Bukowski’s writing influenced many a writer, poet and musician, and now the acerbic bard of San Pedro will be appearing like he’s never been seen before. You Never Had It – An Evening with ...