Carol Connolly’s Reading by Writers hosts a program focusing on Skid Row poet laureate Charles Bukowski, with Mark Berriman, Tom Cassidy, Erica Christ, Ted King, Danny Klecko and William Murphy. Free.

Charles Bukowski, the legendary gutter-rat-of-Los-Angeles author and poet, had such a pungent public image — the raw-meat face, like a bulldog’s mug sculpted out of hamburger; the fights and ...

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The legendary poet and writer, Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920–March 9, 1994), a rough-and-ready representative of authenticity — whose centennial birthday was Monday — had a Palm Springs-based aunt ...

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, ...

John Dullaghan’s “Bukowski: Born Into This” accomplishes beautifully what it sets out to do, which is to reveal the man behind the crusty, hard-drinking, tough-talking persona Charles Bukowski so ...

Charles Bukowski stood on the staircase landing above us in the lobby of the Cal State L.A. student union. Students crowded the floor. Bukowski growled and grumbled poems tersely, the “notes of a ...

With at least three more full manuscripts apparently still remaining in the trunk Charles Bukowski left at his death in 1994, the appearance of this second installment of posthumous work will only ...

The Huntington Library in San Marino, known as the home of Gainsborough's “The Blue Boy," made news four years ago with its acquisition of something a lot bluer: a cache of papers, books and ...

The Los Angeles-based poet Charles Bukowski was known for his blue collar affect and his prolific publishing. The writer, born August 16, 1920 and who passed away March 9, 1994, wrote about drinking, ...

It’s been two decades since Charles Bukowski — the legendary poet and writer celebrated for his gritty, booze-fueled style of prose — died at 73 in San Pedro. To commemorate what would have been his ...