The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities

6 years ago

There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the name of justice. As a…

Allegories from the Cave: Burroughs and Trocchi – a Platonic Love

6 years ago

‘Demiurgos scowled, and with that Plato awoke. Or did he?’ Voltaire The drug experience has often been perceived as a…

Allen Ginsberg Changed My Life

6 years ago

I don’t know where it was that I first read Allen Ginsberg, but strangely enough, I wanted to follow in…

The Best and Worst Beat Book Covers

6 years ago

One should not judge a book by its cover, of course, but judging the cover alone is fair game (as…

Virgules / After Cézanne

6 years ago

In his 1966 interview for The Paris Review, Ginsberg recounts his early preoccupation with Cézanne’s juxtaposition of color: “I suddenly…

A Shoe that Fits the Mind – Ginsberg’s South American Journals

6 years ago

In 1960, Allen Ginsberg accepted an invitation to attend a poetry conference in Chile. The conference was to last only…

The Big Beatdom Sale

6 years ago

‘Tis the season for rampant consumerism. Across the internet, sellers are undercutting one another in a race for the bottom…

“Howl” Continues to Offend in the Era of Tabloid Journalism

6 years ago

It should be of little surprise that Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was at the heart of a debate about what is…

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

6 years ago

In his recent book, Straight Around Allen, Bob Rosenthal begins a chapter with this statement: Allen considers the interview to…

Fifty Years After Kerouac

6 years ago

On this date, fifty years ago, Jack Kerouac passed away in St. Petersburg, Florida. The poet and author was most…

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