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 ...

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 poet and performer whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s won him Oscar nominations and made him one of the best-selling poets in ...

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 ...

The war had not yet begun at 6 p.m. Wednesday, as party guests arrived to honor 70-year-old people’s poet Rod McKuen. Paparazzi lined the entrance to the Argyle Hotel’s candlelit cafe on Sunset ...

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 songwriter ...

Rod McKuen, a prolific songwriter and poet whose compositions include the Academy Award-nominated song “Jean” for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” has died. He was 81. McKuen had ...

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 ...

Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has ...