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Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.
Beat poet, playwright, novelist, and documentary filmmaker Michael McClure was born in Marysville, Kansas, and raised there and in Seattle. Educated at the University of Wichita, the University of Arizona, and San Francisco State College—where he studied with poet Robert Duncan.
May 6, 2020 · Michael McClure, who at 22 helped usher in the Beat movement as part of a famed poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, then went on to a long and varied career as a poet,...
May 7, 2020 · McClure, who died May 4 at 87 after suffering a stroke last year, was a countercultural figure who was present, Zelig-like, at key moments in San Francisco’s Beat heyday and beyond. As the late...
May 12, 2020 · Poet and playwright Michael McClure, a prominent member of the radical Beat Generation cultural movement of the middle 20th Century, died in Oakland on May 8 following complications related to a...
May 4, 2020 · MICHAEL McCLURE. Michael McClure October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020. At the age of 22 Michael McClure gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Today McClure is more active than ever, writing and performing his poetry at festivals, and colleges and clubs across the country.
Michael McClure was born on October 20, 1932. The youngest member of the Beats, McClure authored over thirty books of poetry, plays, and prose, and is considered a key literary figure of the second half of the twentieth century.
