Allen Ginsberg

A combination of poetry, politics, and raw 1960s power.

John Cage performs with a feather while George Plimpton narrativizes (inset) George Orwell’s sinister novel Nineteen Eighty-Four made it inevitable that the arrival of his…

Allen Ginsberg was a hustler. He was always on the make. But if Ginsberg was getting a piece of the pie then everyone was getting…

In June 1965, Allen Ginsberg was interviewed by Thomas Clark for the Paris Review. Back then, to be interviewed by the Paris Review was a…

A dedicated student of meditation throughout most of his adulthood, Allen Ginsberg fell into Buddhism fairly early on in life, well before the mysticism craze…

In 1977, Michael Rectenwald was a disenchanted pre-med student with a secret passion for poetry–Allen Ginsberg and his influences in particular. After a couple of…

Most of Allen Ginsberg’s recorded music consists of the poet chanting to the accompaniment of his harmonium. While I enjoy the mantras, original folk songs…

It’s cellist/composer Arthur Russell’s great triumph that his influence became so massively widespread, and his great tragedy that he never knew it. His AIDS-related death…

Shot from ‘Pull My Daisy’ This intimate 1959 footage of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr and his wife Francesca (with their three sons, Simon, Caleb and…