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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 ...

David L. Ulin is books editor of The Times. Charles BUKOWSKI may be a Los Angeles icon, but reading “The Pleasures of the Damned” -- the new volume of his selected poetry edited by John Martin, his ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles-based poet Charles Bukowski was known for his blue-collar affect and prolific publishing. The writer, who passed away March 9, 1994, at 73, wrote about drinking, smoking, women, and ...

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, ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...

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