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Allen Ginsberg

The Best Writing Tips Ever

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Howl, Writing Teacher, Writers, Writing Tips, Writing, Meditation, Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Books News

I've been in publishing for more than 20 years, I've attended my fair share of writer's conferences and workshops, and in my experience, the poet Alle...

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Redemption Song: Ted Kennedy Through Allen Ginsberg's Eyes

RJ Eskow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Redemption, Allen Ginsberg, Catholicism, Ted Kennedy, Death, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Ted Kennedy was a Catholic, not a Buddhist, but his life reads like a Bodhisattvic exercise.

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A Burroughs Milestone

Jan Herman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Robert Creeley, Beat Hotel, Olympia Press, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Big Table, Black Mountain Review, Leroi Jones, Irving Rosenthal, Diane Di Prima, Naked Lunch, Semina 4, Maurice Girodias, Yugen, Living News
Jan Herman

Jed Birmingham discusses the importance of little magazines to William Burroughs and their role in the publication and reception of Naked Lunch.

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Would Allen Ginsberg Like Twitter?

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Creativity, Twitter, Jack Kerouac, Social Networking, Writing, Maureen Dowd, Media, Facebook, Music, Allen Ginsberg, Tweets, Poetry, Charlie Parker, Technology, Huffington Post, Blogging, Media News
Marissa Moss

First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?

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Harold Norse, R.I.P.

Jan Herman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Anais Nin, Beat Generation, W.H. Auden, James Baldwin, Harold Norse, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, Hotel Nirvana, City Lights, Living News
Jan Herman

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.

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Allen Ginsberg Is Coming To The Big Screen

John Lundberg | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: The Poetic Life, Howl, Howl Poem, Obscenity Protests, Howl Movie, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Obscenity, Living News
John Lundberg

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...

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Jesse Eisenberg To Play Allen Ginsberg

Variety | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Film, Kill Your Darlings, Allen Ginsberg, Entertainment News

Jesse Eisenberg will play poet Allen Ginsberg in "Kill Your Darlings," an ensembler about the murder that helped spawn the Beat Generation. Chris E...

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James Franco To Star In "Howl"

Variety | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Werc Werk Works, Howl, Film, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Entertainment News

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...

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style

Read More: The 1970s, Stds, Normalcy, Queens, Gypsy, Joan of Arc, Arthur Rimbaud, Teenage Girls, Dostoyevsky, Gypsies, Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Religion, James Joyce, Iconoclasts, High School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Penicillin, Reading, 1970s, Teenagers, Style News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

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?"

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Turning Poetry Into Music

John Lundberg | Posted 10.15.2008 | Living

Read More: The Tyger, The Poetic Life, Bryant Kong, Hart Seely, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Donald Rumsfeld, Poetry, Living News
John Lundberg

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...

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The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Savage Nation, Rush Limbaugh, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Homosexuality, Talk Radio, Sean Hannity, San Fran Sicko, Glaad, Homophobia, RockStar Energy Drink, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Rory O'Connor

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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