The signature pose of the fifties counterculture is back, from goatees to espresso bars to a movie version of Jack Kerouac's ...

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 ...

Hank O’Neal, The Gay Day Archive (1974-83) (all images courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) When the 1969 Stonewall Riots erupted in the Greenwich Village, Allen Ginsberg was elsewhere. But the legendary ...

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 ...

When Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith met by complete chance, a life-long friendship and mentorship was started from a romantic ...

A new exhibition at Fahey/Klein Gallery asks us to consider the iconic Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a new light — several new lights, actually. Beloved for his evocative, sparsely opulent, raw and ...

Allen Ginsberg‘s 1989 album The Lion for Real — which features some of the poet’s works set to music, and was produced by Hal Willner, featuring performances by Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, ...

The late Beat poet often defended social outcasts from all walks of life, but his membership in this highly controversial ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. dominating the whole room. Could Ginsberg have known, at that tender age, that he would spend much of his adult ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of Allen Ginsberg’s early photographs, on view now as part of the retrospective “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg in 1947. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art) In one of Allen ...