Singer-songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull reported that "Allen Ginsberg tried teaching me how to give a blow job; he said it was like prayer." The incident took place between 1988-89 at the ...

"I have been seeing big Berkeley professors,” wrote Allen Ginsberg in a 1955 letter to friend and fellow beatnik Jack Kerouac, “but I am anonymous nobody and can impress no one with nothing.” When ...

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Count Beat poet Allen Ginsberg among the nation’s first hemp activists. After his seminal poem Howl thrust him into the national spotlight in 1956, Ginsberg began speaking out in favor of ...

The Hoboken Historical Museum and Poet-in-Residence Danny Shot will be celebrating the life of poet Allen Ginsberg with Memory Gardens on Sunday, March 3, at 4 p.m. The event is free and will also be ...

A new book about the late Allen Ginsberg is like a scrapbook packed with all make and manner of things Ginsbergian, from newspaper clippings and archival photos to letters and testimonials from the ...

ALLEN GINSBERG IN AMERICA by Jane Kramer. 202 pages. Random House. $4.95. In 1956, his anguished protest poem Howl (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness . . .”) set the stage ...

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 ...

Long before it was popular for New Age norteamericanos to visit the Andes Mountains seeking psychedelic enlightenment from ayahuasca, the Beat novelist William Burroughs made the trek. But he took the ...