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Allen Ginsberg

LOOK: Allen Ginsberg's Hidden Passion Revealed

Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.23.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Beat Poets, Allen Ginsberg San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg History, Allen Ginsberg Photography, Beat Memories, Allen Ginsberg Photos, Allen Ginsberg Contemporary Jewish Museum, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poets San Francisco, San Francisco News

Allen Ginsberg didn't just see the best minds of his generation "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negr...

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Daniel Radcliffe's 'Step-By-Step' Process For Steamy Gay Love Scene

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rudolph | Posted 05.20.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Harry Potter Gay, Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Kerouac, Daniel Radcliffe Gay, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac Gay, Harry Potter, Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter, Gay Voices News

In "Kill your Darlings," slated for release later this year, Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg, who befriends writers William Burroughs and Jack K...

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Francesco Clemente's Painted Poems

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.10.2013 | Arts
Read More: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Andy Warhol, Africa, Rome, Yale School of Art, Guggenheim Museum, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University, India, Brazil, Allen Ginsberg, Francesco Clemente, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

He was a friend of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and close to Andy Warhol too, painting alongside the Pop master in the 1980s with Jen-Michel Basquiat. B...

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Why You Should Never Meet Your Idol

Mara Menachem | Posted 04.18.2013 | Books
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ma, Mara Menachem, Poetry, Teenage Angst, Berkeley, Jack Kerouac, Lowell, Telegraph Avenue, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Beatnik Generation, Books News
Mara Menachem

My imagination ran wild. What witty thing would I say to Mr. Ginsberg? What will I do when he asks me to drop out of college and be his full time assistant? What will my family say? But how can I turn down such an opportunity?

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Ferlinghetti: Not All Beat Poets Are Beat

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Jack Kerouac, Chris Felver, City Lights Books, Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Back in the day, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was all the rage. Paperbacks of A Coney Island of the Mind could be seen stuffed in jean pockets on college campuses. Now 93, he is the subject of a valuable biopic by photographer and filmmaker Chris Felver

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Beat Poets, Acid Gurus, the Governor and Me

Steve Heilig | Posted 04.03.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Timothy Leary, North Beach, Jerry Brown, Beat Poetry, San-Francisco-Literature, Beatniks, Allen Ginsberg, Tosca, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, San Francisco News
Steve Heilig

A local saloon changing owners is rarely front-page news in the big city, but the recent sale of Tosca, in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, has received much attention.

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Allen Ginsberg's Candid Photographs

Posted 01.24.2013 | Arts
Read More: Allen Ginsberg Nyu, Video, Allen Ginsberg Photographs, Nyu Grey Art Gallery, Allen Ginsberg Retrospective, Beat Memories Nyu, Allen Ginsberg Art, Ginsberg Photographs, Allen Ginsberg Beat Memories, Allen Ginsberg Photography, Beat Memories, Beat Poet Photos, Allen Ginsberg, Arts News

We know Allen Ginsberg as "the most famous and admired contemporary American poet." But did you know the gifted writer was a photographer as well? ...

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What We Can Learn From Sharon Olds and Sylvia Plath About Poetry and Confession

Christina Patterson | Posted 01.24.2013 | Arts
Read More: Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Ann Sexton, Robert Lowell, Poetry, Sharon Olds, Confessional Poetry, Arts News
Christina Patterson

Very few poets match Sharon Olds in the discipline she brings to her best work. You can't be human and read the poems in her collection Stag's Leap, which last week won the T.S. Eliot prize for poetry, and not sometimes hear yourself gasp.

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Alex Katz Retrospective Lands At Yale

J. Michael Welton | Posted 03.18.2013 | Arts
Read More: Frank O'Hara, Art, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch, Yale, Al Held, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

For the past six decades, 85-year-old Alex Katz has documented - in a style that sometimes seems influenced by billboards or CinemaScope - a changing ...

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Movie Review: On the Road

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.17.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Jack Kerouac, The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles, Slim Gaillard, On the Road Movie Review, Sam Riley, Dean Moriarty, David Chase, Allen Ginsberg, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Garrett Hedlund, Sal Paradise, Movie Reviews, Counterculture, On the Road, Marshall Fine, Somewhere, Not Fade Away, Neal Cassady, Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, Bohemianism, Charlie Parker, Sofia Coppola, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's taken me a while to get around to it, but I wanted to offer a nod of approval for Walter Salles' On the Road, which came out in limited release at the end of 2012.

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On the Road to North Beach

Zachary Ehren | Posted 03.10.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Specs Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, Jack Kerouac, Vesuvio San Francisco, Jack Kerouac on the Road, Beat Generation, City Lights Bookstore, Allen Ginsberg Howl, Tosca, San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg, North Beach Sf, Distilled Perspective, Distilled-Perspective, San Francisco News
Zachary Ehren

We sparked some tea and spit seeds onto the street, pulsing to the rhythm of the passing cars while feeling the ghosts of North Beach -- Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, and the rest of our long-gone friends -- falling further away.

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Ode to New York

Laura Steiner | Posted 02.25.2013 | New York
Read More: Ode, New York City, New York, New York Neighborhood, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, New Yorkers, Best of New York, New York News
Laura Steiner

New York is unapologetic and doesn't wait for anyone. It's a city that creates and a city that happens. New York doesn't need anything or anyone and perhaps that's exactly why you still crave it so much, because of it's idyllic unattainability.

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LOOK: Daniel Radcliffe's Big New Role

Posted 12.18.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Video, Daniel Radcliffe Kill Your Darlings, Sundance Film Festival, Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Daniel Radcliffe Allen Ginsberg, Slidewide, Allen Ginsberg, Sundance Film Festival 2013, Entertainment News

Dane DeHaan is reaching Hansel levels of hotness at this point. The 26-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio doppelgänger has enjoyed a breakout 2012 thanks to ...

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Popcorn Preview: On the Road

Leslie Sisman | Posted 02.13.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Kristen Stewart, Profile, Movie Review, Review, Popcorn, Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, Steve Buscemi, Popcorn Diary, Allen Ginsberg, Garrett Hedlund, On the Road, Elizabeth Moss, Leslie Sisman, Viggo Mortensen, Popcorn Profiles, Kirsten Dunst, Terrence Howard, Movie Preview, Tom Sturridge, Sam Ridley, Amy Adams, Video, Entertainment News
Leslie Sisman

One of the most significant challenges of the film is to make us feel as if we're seeing this lifestyle with a fresh eye. The film does a terrific job of putting us in the era and making us feel like we're actually there.

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Allen Ginsberg, Teacher

Steve Turtell | Posted 11.03.2012 | Books
Read More: Ginsberg, Teacher, Poet, Brooklyn College, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Books News
Steve Turtell

He was the single best teacher I've ever had. That he liked me and my work confirmed me as no other encouragement ever had.

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What a Wonderful World: Documentary Is Alive and Well -- For Now

Vivian Norris | Posted 06.16.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Yes, Shoah, Front Natonal, Bbc, Searching for Sugar Man, Heather Croall, Bush Family, Robert Lowell, Fbi, Malik Bendjelloul, Wikileaks, The Sorrow and the Pity, Crucify Your Mind, Allen Ginsberg, j.g.ballard, Whitney, Documentaries Matter, AA Gill, Brian Knappenberger, Sheffield Doc Fest, Mark Lombardi - Death-Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy, Mareike Wegener, Democracy, Sheffdocfest, South Africa, Osama Bin Laden, Texas, Art, Arab Spring, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hackivists, Nick Fraser, Saudi, Documentary, www.sheffdocfest.com, Huseein Currimbhoy, Sixto Rodriguez, Le Pen, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

The vibe at the Sheffield Doc Fest is simply fantastic. The city itself welcomes filmmakers, commissioners, composers and producers from all over the world, and gives back warmth and appreciation for their work.

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What To Do This Weekend: B'wick Open Studios, Howl And JB Smoove

Posted 06.01.2012 | New York
Read More: Video, New York Weekend Events, Bushwick Open Studios, NY Around Town, Bushwick, Allen Ginsberg Howl, Jb Smoove, Allen Ginsberg, New York Events, New York News

Bushwick Open Studios Where: Various locations When: Friday-Saturday Price: Free Arts in Bushwick celebrates its 6th year organizing Bushwick Open...

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Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.26.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Kristen Stewart, Peter Orlovsky, On the Road Film, Sissy Spacek, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, David Cronenberg, Carolyn Cassady, Hettie Jones, John Heard, Nick Nolte, Kirsten Dunst, Naked Lunch, Amy Adams, Joan Vollmer, Robert Frank, Jose Rivera, Anne Waldman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012 | Arts
Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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A Poem for the Marcellus

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 07.02.2012 | Green
Read More: Earth Day 2012, Allen Ginsberg Howl, Marcellus Shale, National Poetry Month, Fracking, Allen Ginsberg, Earth Day, Poem, Green News
Sandra Steingraber

In honor of both National Poetry Month and Earth Day, I offer below a love song to the bedrock: the methane-suffused shale that geologists call the Marcellus, which now lies in the crosshairs of the oil and gas industry.

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Cleto Munari Auctions His Collection

J. Michael Welton | Posted 06.12.2012 | Arts
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Furniture, Carlo Scarpa, Jack Kerouac, Poet, Architecture, Robert Venturi, Jewelry, Allen Ginsberg, Silverware, Gregory Corso, Artist, Designers, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, Cleto Munari, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael G...

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Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012 | Arts
Read More: On the Road, Ed Ruscha on the Road, Jack Kerouac, Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art, Ed Ruscha Denver, Ed Ruscha, Beat Poetry, Beat Generation, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Allen Ginsberg, Denver Art Museum, Arts News

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

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Mekas And Polidori: From Manhattan To The Middle East

Posted 03.19.2012 | Arts
Read More: Edwynn Houk Gallery, Photography, Slidewide, Mekas and Polidori, Robert Polidori, Yoko Ono, Jackie O, Jackie Onassis, Film, Allen Ginsberg, Video, Edie Sedgwick, Jonas Mekas, New York Exhibitions, Arts News

The exhibition "Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori: Portraits" is a never-before seen collection of two longtime friends whose work capture two different...

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'A Poem Is A Song. It Is In Your Heart And You Can Breathe It With Your Mouth.'

John R. Eperjesi | Posted 05.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Beat Generation, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, South Korea, Poetry, Gary Snyder, Home News
John R. Eperjesi

Rainhat's gently staggering poems are spontaneous, lyrical, physical and immediate. When his grandmother, a farmer, tells him she doesn't understand poems, he explains to her, "A poem is a song. It is in your heart and you can breathe it with your mouth."

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Jarmusch Narrates AWESOME Tour Of Village's Poets (And Other Great Walking Tours)

Posted 03.06.2012 | New York
Read More: Miguel Pinero, East Village, New York City Walking Tours, Lower East Side, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, New York Travel, Poetry Foundation, Allen Ginsberg, Ny Travel, Slidepollajax, Kenneth Koch, Poetry, Jim Jarmusch, New York News

With Spring and walking-weather approaching, a reader tipped off EV Grieve to a great new audio tour of the East Village. According to UnionDocs: "...

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