Allan Ginsberg's graphic verse had a seismic effect on American society. When two people were put on trial for selling it, ...

Ginsberg was better known as a close friend of Bob Dylan, but he was tight with The Beatles, as well, and wrote about his experience seeing them play live.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

First, customs officials seized a crate full of the contraband at the San Francisco port. But that didn’t solve the problem. Some of the banned product had already gotten through and was being ...

She made the landmark underground film “Christmas on Earth,” and helped bring together artists like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. By J. Hoberman Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a ...