Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.

For years, poet Tenaya Nasser-Frederick avoided "Howl." "I just stayed away from poets like Allen Ginsberg, because they were too popular," Nasser-Frederick says. "I didn’t need to read them. Everyone ...

Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem "Howl," is the subject of a new film that stars James Franco as the legendary beat poet. "Howl" directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman say they chose Franco for the ...

In commemoration of what would have been the Beat poet's 100th birthday, Kronos Quartet, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A “lost” recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his then-fresh epic poem “Howl” in 1956 will be released for the first time in April, ...

Allen Ginsberg said in a 1985 interview that "Howl" began with another poem. Ginsberg, who had studied at Columbia University, sent a poem called "Dream Record, 1955" to poet and essayist Kenneth ...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for ...

In 2007, author John Suiter was digging through the archives at Reed College's Hauser Memorial Library when he uncovered a rare treasure: a reel-to-reel tape of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg giving a ...

A “lost” recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his then-fresh epic poem “Howl” in 1956 will be released for the first time in April, thanks to a personal connection between Reed College, where the ...