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 ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Charles Bukowski wasn't *just* a beer drinking machine. He was a sensitive Cancer who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, it was and still is, as Tom Waits has praised the poet ever since he discovered Bukowski. Waits, who has partially adopted Bukowski’s literary voice over the years has one song that stems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Cal State Long Beach classroom, 1985 or so. Gerald Locklin looks every bit his nickname "Bear," with bushy salt-and-pepper hair ...