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 ...

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 ...

Charles Bukowski wasn't *just* a beer drinking machine. He was a sensitive Cancer who self-medicated and wrote all night. Maybe like some of you do. As much as we love the man, we aren't quite sure ...

Charles Bukowski was called many things: “poet laureate of L.A. lowlife,” “the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets,” “the prophet of the underemployed” and “a flamboyant provincial.” Those ...

Bukowski's unmistakable persona—an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of racetracks, booze and loneliness in ragged, self-confident, free verse—made him one of the country's most popular poets long before he ...

When Marjory Gilbert read a Times On Location story about the movie “Bukowski,” produced and directed by James Franco, it brought back vivid memories of her long-ago encounter with the late poet.

Experience Charles Bukowski's contemplative poetry ""Let It Enfold You"" performed with the dreamy, introspective aesthetic of Timothée Chalamet's Elio from Call Me By Your Name. This atmospheric ...

You have only to hear Ute Lemper declaim Charles Bukowski’s apocalyptic poem “Dinosauria, We” to be reminded that Bukowski, who died in 1994, had a gift for gimlet-eyed prophecy. He imagines a 21st ...

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