Celebrating Veteran Beat Poet Dick McBride’s Life September 14, 2012: Dick McBride, veteran Beat poet, passed away on August 28th. His funeral, in Worcester, takes place today. Here's a sample from a Worcester News article celebrating McBride's life: Mr McBride was placed at the centre of the Beat universe when he became a book clerk in the now world-famous City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco. In [...] by Harriet Staff