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 ...

What would Allen Ginsberg do? That question still drives poets and artists at Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which Ginsberg co-founded in Boulder more than four decades ...

World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller, David S. Wills’s biography of Allen Ginsberg, explores the poet’s life as a traveler. By excerpting Ginsberg’s poems and quoting his letters and travel ...

The most famous line in all of twentieth-century American poetry can be found in Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem, “America,” which was published in the Pocket Poets series by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City ...

A new tribute album offers musical interpretations of Ginsberg's poems. The poet and countercultural activist spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about his poem "Howl," which was inspired by his mother.

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 ...

Allen Ginsberg, the late poet who helped form the core of the Beat Generation, is best known for chronicling the world through his gritty and confessional words. But a new exhibit at the Los ...

Last June, while digging through 50 boxes of archival material about Bernie Sanders’s four terms as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a reporter for the British newspaper the Guardian found a poem by ...

A great one-page poem can have all the power and breadth of a whole novel, but no great poet writes just one poem. In a way, a poet’s work takes a lifetime. To measure a poet’s accomplishment, one ...

Angelique Kidjo, Yo La Tengo, Bill Frisell, and Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart are among the artists featuring on a 50th-anniversary musical tribute to beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: ...

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