Hip Hop Speaks to Children, Sourcebooks’ second poetry anthology for young readers, was inspired by the publisher’s first such anthology, Poetry Speaks to Children (2005), edited by Elise Paschen.

The original Beat movement of the 1950s and ‘60s gave us Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Michael McClure’s play “The Beard” and reams of other lively radical writings. But that ...

Making his name with a blend of poetry and rock ’n’ roll he called “rocketry,” he straddled two eras of British youth culture at the dawn of the 1960s. By Alex Williams Royston Ellis, a British Beat ...