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Ted Kennedy was a Catholic, not a Buddhist, but his life reads like a Bodhisattvic exercise.
Jan Herman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living
Jed Birmingham discusses the importance of little magazines to William Burroughs and their role in the publication and reception of Naked Lunch.
Marissa Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?
Jan Herman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
He said he was a poet, too. I no longer recall what we talked about, but it didn't take long for him to invite me back to his room at 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, the so-called Beat Hotel.
John Lundberg | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is coming to theaters. And if that makes you want to hide your children, hold off for a moment. The movie isn't an incarnat...
Variety | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment
Jesse Eisenberg will play poet Allen Ginsberg in "Kill Your Darlings," an ensembler about the murder that helped spawn the Beat Generation. Chris E...
Variety | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment
Indie banner Werc Werk Works will produce and fully finance "Howl," starring James Franco, with lensing set to start March 16 in New York City. "Howl...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style
I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"
John Lundberg | Posted 10.15.2008 | Living
Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media
Dig deeper, and the question of who Michael Savage is becomes more complicated. "Savage" isn't his real name; it seems to speak to his heightened sense of masculinity, aggression, and antipathy toward minorities.
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RJ Eskow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics