The tables were all full, and I sat on the floor, my back against the rear wall of Ali’s Coffee House at 63rd Street and Kostner Avenue in Chicago. It was amateur night on a Friday, and I was waiting ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW YORK (AP) — Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose ...

My vintage copy of To Kill a Mockingbird has a coffee spill between two of its pages, a mocha Rorschach blot that bothers me even when the book is closed and safely on its shelf. I can't replace the ...

An un-poetic analogy now. Rod McKuen was to poetry what cheeseburgers are to haute cuisine - widely mocked and extremely popular, and maybe harder to do well than people think. Rod McKuen died this ...

NEW YORK >> Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ‘70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated ...

RADNOR – Barry Alfonso only spoke to Rod McKuen once, when he attempted to have the famous and prolific poet, song writer and activist as a guest on a radio show that he hosted. Later, he wrote a long ...

Poet Rod McKuen was loved by millions but mocked by literary critics. He died this week at age 81. Rod McKuen, The Cheeseburger To Poetry's Haute Cuisine SCOTT SIMON, HOST: An un-poetic analogy now.