A new show at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles will see Allen Ginsberg in dialogue with two distinct technologies: one of photography, which the late poet engaged with throughout the decades, and ...

Sixty years ago in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg penned a poem that opened with the now-famous lines: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging ...

A new exhibition at Fahey/Klein Gallery asks us to consider the iconic Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a new light — several new lights, actually. Beloved for his evocative, sparsely opulent, raw and ...

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin recently acquired the archive of poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg’s lover, companion, and muse for more than 40 years. The ...

For decades, critics scolded Allen Ginsberg because he promoted himself and his work. Nowadays, there isn’t a self-respecting poet who doesn’t publicize and promote shamelessly. Ginsberg led the way. ...

In his poem “America” (1956) Allen Ginsberg addresses the nation as if it were a codependent lover, asking, “Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?” followed immediately by ...

Hank O’Neal, The Gay Day Archive (1974-83) (all images courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) When the 1969 Stonewall Riots erupted in the Greenwich Village, Allen Ginsberg was elsewhere. But the legendary ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg, known as a leading voice of the Beat Generation, didn’t just write. Throughout his life, he also practiced photography, once saying that “the poignancy of a photograph comes from ...

The recent article on Allen Ginsberg (“Howl’s Echoes,” The Chronicle Review, September 17) rightly reminds the academic community of the controversy, the exuberance, and the lasting contributions to ...

In Martin Scorsese’s 2005 documentary No Direction Home (per Ginsberg’s website), Ginsberg explained the first time he met The Beatles. He said he’d just been kicked out of Cuba “for talking privately ...

Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones. By Dwight Garner I was in college and found myself organizing a gay rights protest before I fully understood ...