Allen Ginsberg was a rolling stone. He seemed determined to gather no moss. From 1965 through 1971, he traveled the world. Mostly, though, he traveled the United States. Sometime during those journeys ...

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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In 2021, a whole lot of musicians paid tribute to Allen Ginsberg, a towering figure in the history of American poetry, on the album Allen Ginsberg ’ s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical ...

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.

“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” — Allen Ginsberg, “America.” One might be hard pressed to find a more apt person to honor during National Gay History Month than Allen Ginsberg — poet ...

We noticed with a brief pang the other day that it was the anniversary of the death of a great American poet. Allen Ginsberg succumbed at just 70, in New York, to liver cancer, on April 5, 1997 – the ...

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 ...

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 ...