Allen Ginsberg initially thought The Beatles were naive when he first met them. However, he soon learned that they were innovators and artists like him. The Beatles | Central Press/Getty Images ...

ALLEN GINSBERG: (Reading) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix.

To some Beats and fellow travelers, Allen Ginsberg’s time in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was sent by a judge as a very young man, seemed like a scene from “One Flew Over the ...

HOWL / When Allen Ginsberg hurled his shattering poem at a San Francisco audience in 1955, it proved to be the depth charge that started the Beat movement By Heidi Benson , Chronicle Staff Writer ...

In February of 1982, Allen Ginsberg arrived in Los Angeles and called up his friend Bob Dylan. According to Steven Taylor, a guitarist who was traveling with the poet, Ginsberg was eager to book ...

Poet and writer Allen Ginsberg greeted George Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, in the nude during his 39th birthday party. Ginsberg later operated in the same spiritual circles as the Beatle.

Poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" outside the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 1994, before a hearing on the constitutionality of a FCC policy restricting indecent material.

Allen Ginsberg said in a 1985 interview that "Howl" began with another poem. Ginsberg, who had studied at Columbia University, sent a poem called "Dream Record, 1955" to poet and essayist Kenneth ...

Poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg during the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, a work of public art in Lowell, Mass. historic district , June 25, 1988.