21. Allen Ginsberg - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/aginsfst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began close friendships with William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, all of whom later became leading figures of the Beat movement. In 1954, Ginsberg moved to San Francisco. His first book of poems, Howl , overcame censorship trials to become one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages. In the 1960s and '70s, Ginsberg studied under gurus and Zen masters. He went on to co-found and direct the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. In his later years he became a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College. He died in 1997 in New York City. This bio was last updated on Jun 8, 2001. photo: Robert Frank A Selected Bibliography Poetry Howl and Other Poems Siesta in Xbalba and Return to the States Empty Mirror: Early Poems Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960

22. The Works Of Allen Ginsberg The Works of allen ginsberg. If 1977. Interviews. Gay Sunshine Interview allen ginsberg with allen Young Grey Fox, 1974. Lectures. http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Lists/GinsbergWorks.html

The Works of Allen Ginsberg If I told you I'd read every word here I'd be lying so bad ... I've read the 'major' ones, though, and I really like them. Poetry sometimes puts me to sleep, but Ginsberg's poetry is just so crammed with manic energy that I stay awake and end up getting into it. None of that 'Sominex' effect here. Ginsberg is a crazed individual, and he has the intelligence and artistic instincts to capture his crazed vision in words. He is probably the only Beat poet whose work stands tall by any measure. Many poets (for instance, Gary Snyder ) can do beautiful and subtle things with words, but don't often grab your attention. You have to already be in a 'poetic mood' to hop on to a Snyder wavelength; his work isn't likely to transform you if you haven't already committed yourself to being transformed. Others, like Gregory Corso , are the opposite: they get your attention, but don't fully deliver on that rarefied, erudite poetic stuff that the college professors and little old ladies like so much. But Ginsberg is *All That* (as Charles Isbell would say in his Hip/hop Review Web Site ). He is PhunkyDopePhat++ and even sings good. So check out some of this stuff listed down below.

23. ALLEN GINSBERG Propone una biografia e l'analisi della poetica dell'autore. http://digilander.libero.it/kerouacpage/gins.htm

Ho visto le migliori menti della mia generazione distrutte da pazzia, morir di fame isteriche nude strascicarsi per strade negre all'alba in cerca di una pera di furia hipsters testadangelo bramare l'antico spaccia paradisiaco che connette alla dinamo stellare nel meccanismo della notte... Questo fu il grande momento della sua vita , e Ginsberg con gioia raccontò alla Allen Ginsberg e la sua poesia Strano ora pensare a te, nadata via senza busto e occhi, mentre cammino per la strada assolata al Greenwich Village, downtown Manhattan, chiaro mezzogiorno invernale, e sono stato su tutta la notte, a parlare, parlare, leggere il Kaddish ad alta voce, ascoltando Ray Charles urlo di blues cieco al giradischi, il ritmo, il ritmo, e il tuo ricordo in testa tre anni dopo...

24. DHARMA  Beat - A Jack Kerouac Website A directory of links to Beat Generation writers, including Jack Kerouac, allen ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm

DHARMA beat a Jack Kerouac website I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Kerouac Links Welcome to DHARMA beat's homepage DHARMA beat is dedicated to Jack Kerouac's life and writings. We publish information of interest about Kerouac events and happenings around the world. Visit our Links page to see Kerouac, beat, and other links. And visit our calendar page for Kerouac events happening near you. Kerouac events: We are looking for Kerouac related events to list in our Kerouac calendar. If you are having a Kerouac reading, or commemoration of his life, or film festival, or anything that includes Kerouac, please forward information related to the event (name, time, place, telephone number, description of event). Please include the work Kerouac in the subject line. We do try to keep the calendar current. DHARMA beat links Click here to See Kerouac Calendar - This is a calendar of upcoming Kerouac and Kerouac related events. Please e-mail me to add your event.

25. Beatnet.de - Beatgeneration Texte, Bilder, B¼cher und Autoren der Beatgeneration. http://www.beatnet.de/

beatnet.de die Beatgeneration The Beat goes on Neues aus Beatopia Verlage bei beatnet.de Es ist kaum zu glauben, dass das alles schon so lange her sein soll: Vor gut 50 Jahren treffen in New York drei junge Möchtegernschriftsteller aufeinander, die außer ihren bis dato sehr unterschiedlichen Lebensläufen eine Sehnsucht, ein Ziel gemeinsam haben: die Suche nach einer neuen Vision, einer Vision vom Leben, von der Erfahrung der Wirklichkeit. Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs und Allen Ginsberg werden in den nächsten Jahrzehnten ihre Suche auf ganz eigene Art und Weise durchführen, und die literarischen Werke, die dabei entstehen, werden ebenso unterschiedlich sein. Aber jeder der drei wird mit Werk und Leben die Zeitläufe beeinflussen, ja prägen, und diese Prägungen wirken bis heute - vielleicht liegt es daran, dass diese Geschichte so fern und doch so nah erscheint.. 9. Mai 2003: Wie erst jetzt bekannt wurde, starb am 25. April TED JOANS in Vancouver. Seine "Blitzliebe Poems" waren das erste Buch, das in der damals noch so genannten "Loose Blätter Presse" erschien. Beatnet.de wird in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen versuchen, soviel Material wie möglich zu Leben und Werk dieses außergewöhnlichen Menschen und Dichters zu sammeln. Einige Daten zu Leben und Werk finden sich hier Harold Chapman Galerie bei beatnet.de.

26. William Blake And Allen Ginsberg, Poets Of A Fallen World, Prophets Of The New W Undergraduate thesis comparing their poetic viewpoints. http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/blake1

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" William Blake and Allen Ginsberg, Poets of a Fallen World, Prophets of the New World William Blake and Allen Ginsberg: Poets in a Fallen World, Prophets of the New World By Chris Pel lnat Summary: This thesis looks at the prophetic tradition in the poetry of William Blake and Allen Ginsberg and the artistic kinship that Ginsberg felt toward the poet he considered his "guru." This thesis earned the President's Award for Undergraduate Research and the Humanities and Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement from the State University of New York at Albany in 1988. Professor Don Byrd served as Advisor. Those familiar with William Blake and the prophetic tradition may wish to read the introduction and then skip to Chapter IV. Introduction Literature is art, an expression of the human mind, body, and soul, forged with skill, genius, and inspiration. When one comes upon holy literature art which is held sacred by some culture or group of people one finds that one's personal reaction to the art depends to a large extent on one's personal religious beliefs. The fundamental question the reader must ask is whether the text in question is holy to his or herself. In short, having never read the Bible, (neither an unusual nor horrid admission in this age) and then reading it, and reading Blake and Ginsberg, one's perceptions of one's life are put through the wringer. The question is whether they come out torn and shredded, or clean and purified.

27. Six Photographs Of Allen Ginsberg . . . a haiku by this webpage's author, and a drawing by the poet ginsberg. http://www.booksmith.com/reader/erikson.html

THE BOOKSMITH READER Six Photographs of Allen Ginsberg / a haiku / and one drawing by the poet By Tom Erikson ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG and ANNE WALDMAN ALLEN GINSBERG ALLEN GINSBERG and KENWARD ELMSLIE These photographs of Allen Ginsberg were taken in 1993 at The Naropa Institute during the fourth and final week of the summer writing program of The Jack Keroac School of Disembodied Poetics. I had been invited, as an artist in residence, to document the week's activities which culminated in two benefit performances at The Boulder Theatre with Allen Ginsberg, dancer Melissa Finley, and musician Phillip Glass. Ginsberg read Howl in its entirity for the first time in seven years, as well as Kaddish and Plutonium Ode . (The latter accompanied by Phillip Glass on piano.) Allen Ginsberg was the co-founder of The Jack Keroac School Of Disembodied Poetics, with poet Anne Waldman, and was extremely supportive of its growth. Not only did he work to make his two sold out readings extraordinary, but he participated in many of the other week's activities. He lead a workshop with Waldman and Tibetan scholar Gelek Rimpoche titled "Composed on the Tongue," and sat in on several panels and discussion groups, including the final student reading of the summer, at which he was accompanied by long-time companion Peter Orlovsky. He was present as both a standard of poetic accomplishment and a symbolic icon against which the students at Naropa could rebel. He was suffering from the onset of diabedes, among other ailments, and still he gave of himself wholeheartedly.

28. THE BOSTON TRIAL OF "NAKED LUNCH." Excerpts from the testimony of Norman Mailer and allen ginsberg. http://www.lib.siu.edu/cni/b411.html

The Boston Trial of "Naked Lunch." Boston, Mass., once the scene of such famous censorship trials as those involving Forever Amber, God's Little Acre, and, more recently, Tropic of Cancer, again attracted a distinguished gathering of literary luminaries on January 12, 1965, when "A Book Named Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs" found itself the defendant in Boston Superior Court before Judge J. Hudson. The witnesses who testified on behalf of Naked Lunch included Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ciardi, Paul Hollander, Gabriele B. Jackson, Norman Holland, Stanley E. Eldred, John B. Sturrock, and Thomas H. Jackson. The attorney appearing in behalf of the book and its publisher, Grove Press, Inc., was Edward de Grazia, assisted by Daniel Klubock. As we go to press the court has still to hand down its decision. What follows are excerpts from the testimony of Mr. Mailer and Mr. Ginsberg, concluded by a statement from Mr. de GRAZIA. EDWARD DE GRAZIA: Mr. Mailer, you have referred to the fact that in some of your writings you deal with political matters. Would it be unfair to say that in much of your writing, both as a novelist and as an essayist, you deal with moral questions and moral matters? NORMAN MAILER: Well, I try to. It's like saying

29. An Understatement Of Poetry A portal which provides information about poetry and art. Features links to sites about and online poetry from such famous poets as Dorothy Parker, Alan ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Edgar allen Poe, and William Blake. http://understatement.com

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30. Caveat Lecteur Poetry Archive Has MOVED Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and allen ginsberg. http://www.jough.com/poetry/

We've Moved. That's right - the Caveat Lecteur Poetry Archive is no more... or rather it's changed its name and address. The interface is newer and improveder, and the poetry is as good as ever (only there's more of it). So come on and join us at our new location, www.plagiarist.com/poetry/ , or just wait and be transported there automatically. Plagiarist.com - Mischief. Mayhem. Poetry.

31. AllenGinsberg.org :: Home copyright 2002, the allen ginsberg trust, new york designed and built by dataWonk, Inc. photo of question ». The allen ginsberg Library ». A http://www.allenginsberg.org/home.asp

@import url("./styles/agt.css"); designed and built by dataWonk, Inc. Elsa Dorfman Renowned poet, world traveler spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school, Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) defied simple classification. Welcome to AllenGinsberg.org where you can explore published as well as never-before-published text, photos, hand-written documents and audio and video materials representing Allen's life-work. Your Questions Answered A growing online repository of Ginsbergiana, left behind by Allen for future exploration so that those wishing to research his life and work would have ample fodder for their own interpretive experience. Julian Beck, Judith Malina and other members of the Living Theater had been jailed in Ouro Preto, Brazil, under very dubious circumstances. Herein Allen explains in his appeal to the Brazilian Government the circumstances as he understood them This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

32. Prizes And Awards Annual contest seeks original, unpublished poems, no more than two manuscript pages in length, on any themes, and in any genre. Prize money totals $1,300. Sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. Deadline April 1, 2004. http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/poetry/Prize/index.html

IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize $1,000 award for a book of poems published in 2003 must be 48 pages or more and have a print run of 500 copies or more deadline: February 1, 2004 Rules and Applications 2004 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards Honoring Allen Ginsberg’s Contribution to American Literature first prize: $1000 second prize: $200 third prize: $100 deadline: April 1, 2004 Guidelines 2004 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People $500 award for a book published in 2003 for following categories Pre-K - Grade 3 Grades 4 - 6 Grades 7 - 12 deadline: March 15, 2004 Rules and Applications 2004 Paterson Fiction Prize $1000 award for a novel or collection of short fiction published in 2003 deadline: April 1, 2004 Rules and Applications For winners click here Maria Mazziotti Gillan , Executive Director, Poetry Center Passaic County Community College One College Boulevard, Paterson, NJ 07505-1179

33. Limberlost Press Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in handmade, letterpress, limited editions. Authors include allen ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Robert Wrigley, Chuck Guilfordand others. http://www.limberlostpress.com/

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34. Reader's Companion To American History - -GINSBERG, ALLEN The Reader s Companion to American History. ginsberg, allen. (1926 ), poet. Along with Robert Lowell, ginsberg was the writer most http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_036800_ginsbergalle.htm

Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History GINSBERG, ALLEN , poet. Along with Robert Lowell, Ginsberg was the writer most responsible for a great shift in American poetry in the late 1950s. Poetry in the forties and fifties was dominated by formal, metrical, often rhymed verse, densely impacted with wit, irony, and allusion, as in Lowell's early poems. By the mid-fifties, however, both Ginsberg and Lowell had come under the spell of William Carlos Williams, who had worked for decades to bring his poems closer to the supple rhythms of prose and the transparency of spoken language. Ginsberg was also influenced by the jazzlike flow and immediacy of his friend Jack Kerouac's as-yet unpublished fiction. Ginsberg's breakthrough came in his long poem "Howl" (1956), written directly at the typewriter in imitation of Kerouac's methods of spontaneous composition. In it, he boldly revived an impassioned biblical rhetoric of the sublime. Borrowing the kind of heightened yet prosaic long line that had been used by outcast poets like Christopher Smart, William Blake, and Walt Whitman, Ginsberg hallucinated a hipster's dream world of drugs, madness, and homosexuality as a counterpoint to "Moloch," the straight world dominated by money, machinery, and war, which he saw as a prison house of the spirit. When Ginsberg read the poem aloud first at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and again at readings across the country, the impact on the younger generation was enormous. Though attacked or ignored by most critics, accused of obscenity, incoherence, and sensationalism, the work of Ginsberg and Kerouac, along with the writings of friends like Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and William Burroughs, became a flashpoint of cultural rebellion, the seedbed of the counterculture of the 1960s.

35. Index allen ginsberg said Marc Olmsted inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve Kerouac's movieminded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco. (New Directions in Prose Poetry 37) http://www.geocities.com/marcolmsted

MARC OLMSTED (photo credit: lisa andreini) SUM (Inevitable Press, 1998). Olmsted appeared at the L.A. Ginsberg Memorial along with Tom Waits, Exxene and Johnny Depp. His new book, WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? - POEMS FROM 3-YEAR RETREAT (Valley Contemporary Press, 2001), has an introduction by Ginsberg. http://www.amazon.com Olmsted is a senior student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. http://www.vajrayana.org Olmsted has studied Buddhism since 1974 and completed a 3-year retreat supervised by his teacher. Afterwards, he was encouraged to teach in the San Francisco chapter of Tharchin Rinpoche's students, Last Chance Gompa. Marc Olmsted's current book projects include a novel-in-progress, LIGHTNING HOUSE, and a collection of his lectures with Tulku Thubten Rinpoche http://www.buddhamandala.org - WRITING KEROUAC, SITTING BUDDHA. ADVICE The more successful ... http://www.poetspath.com (then click on NAPALM HEALTH SPA and also TRANSMISSIONS) http://www.comrade.org.uk http://www.longshot.org tinlustremobile http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com ... TO CONTACT MARC OLMSTED: SOON! MARC OLMSTED'S POETRY WORKSHOP!

36. The Beat Generation Jack Kerouac writes to allen ginsberg and Neal Casady; page dedicated to Jack Kerouac's writings. http://www.cancunsteve.com/beat.htm

Beat be Zen Buddhism Kerouac Ben Zooter Take off your clothes Climb on your scooter To Europe for Five Months The apartment (formerly Max Ernst's) is a four-flight walk-up, and I galloped up the first two landings with a heart aflutter because for me this was like going to interview Beethoven. "Slow down now", came a smiling voice from high up, and in a moment there he was, erect, twinkling-eyed 72 among cartons and crates. "We're moving", said Marcel Duchamp, the living legend. I asked him where? "To a warehouse," the artist said. "We're going to Europe for five months". If you want to go to Playa del Carmen, click here. I asked him what he felt was his most worthwhile work. "The Glass" he said, that being his private name for the painting "The Bride Striped Bare by Her Bachelors Even" a famous painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Glass shows no direct influence. Jack Kerouac In 1948 Jack Kerouac meets John Clellon Holmes and the term beat generation is invented. In 1942 Jack writes to a girlfriend: ...went to work as a laborer on the New War Department project in Arlington, Virginia...A Negro laborer went by with his shovel singing the loveliest blues I ever heardand I followed him all over the field, listening and smoking...

37. The Best Minds Of My G-g-g-g-generation: An Evening With Gregory Corso And Allen An Evening with Gregory Corso and allen ginsberg. By Oskar Back. http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/writers/best_minds.htm

The Best Minds of My G-g-g-g-generation: An Evening with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg I guess in the Sixties they called them happenings. As it happened, a friend of mine, Charlie Ross, managed to get the Blue Note to open its doors on a Sunday night, July 12, 1981. The scheduled event was a reading by Gregory Corso, with Allen Ginsberg and the Shambala Glass Chicken Rock and Roll Band. What did happen was the result of the fashionably tardy half-hour delay, a crowd left to warp in the rain, and several poets in search of an audience. "Not quite, big fella," admonished the manager. "I'm the boss ." It was then that I got a sick feeling, like when you're 200 miles from where you're going and you smell a burning wheel bearing. I found out later that the whole thing had been railroaded through under the auspices of the Boulder Poetry Project, and behind the back of the Boulder Council on the Performing Arts. Charlie had only to take his eye off things for five minutes before the hot-box really started smoking. Allen Ginsberg was setting up with his band. A reliable source had it that he'd been to a Clash concert and read a few of his poems while they accompanied. He was even invited to tape a session with them for their next album. No doubt Allen had his heart set on being a rock star. We might have seen a new Allen, wearing wraparound punk shades, spitting on the Mall. But somehow the session with the Clash never came off. Allen returned to Boulder from New York with a new dream, and tonight would be his shot at making it a reality. But when I watched him trying to tune the band to his harmonium, I could only wish him luck.

38. Allen Ginsberg Resource - Biography, Pictures, History, Research Info, Images allen ginsberg all in one place, biography, info, pictures, history, books, images, philosphy, issues, significance. Home Notables G ginsberg, allen. http://www.starpulse.com/Notables/Ginsberg,_Allen/

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39. Bright Lights Film Journal | The Source Documentary on allen ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and all things Beatnik http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/thesource.html

An uneven new documentary looks at all things Beat BY GARY MORRIS The Beats have returned with a vengeance. New editions of On the Road are rolling off the presses; interest in Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs is at an all-time high; Beat women like Diane di Prima are getting some well-deserved attention, as are black Beats such as Amiri Baraka. Like other counterculture movements, the Beat generation has for some been reduced to a fashion statement — chinos, T-shirt, and masculine scowl. It’s also been neatly coopted by corporations seeking street credibility — even Ginsberg did a Gap ad before he died. It’s not hard to imagine Kerouac’s face next to John and Yoko’s in those duplicitous "Think Different" billboards from Apple. The Source looks at these issues and the whole history of the Beats in a intriguing, if ultimately rather shallow, documentary that’s less a linear biography of the movement than a kind of "Beat chic" sampler. (No real surprise here: Workman’s also responsible for those slick, empty montages at the Academy Awards every year.) This collage portrait moves giddily from the ‘40s to the ‘90s, from historical footage to Hollywood send-ups of Beat culture, from realism to re-creation via a trio of actors who impersonate Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Newsreel footage of Eisenhower America and Levittown, shots from Ozzie and Harriet

40. Creative Quotations From Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Creative Quotations from . . . allen ginsberg (19261997) born on Jun 3 US poet. Search millions of documents for allen ginsberg. Highbeam Research, http://www.creativequotations.com/one/925.htm

CQHome Search CQ CQ Indexes CQ E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997) born on Jun 3 US poet. His epic poem "Howl," 1956 is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement. Search millions of documents for Allen Ginsberg Creative Hats Tshirts African Cichlids Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain, When it snows in yr nose you catch cold in yr brain. Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. . . . Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences . . . The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Whoever controls the media the images controls the culture. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: In "Ginsberg: A Biography," ch. 16, by Barry Miles, 1989.

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