Allen Ginsberg

...were quite a bit older than me," Smith says. "In my early 20s, I met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, and I was very privileged to meet these people and learn from them. You forget about age if you're creatively...

In this article: Patti Smith, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Gregory Corso, William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Because the Night, Plato, and Pablo Picasso

...people as diverse as biologist E.O. Wilson, physician Andrew Weil, psychologist Daniel Goleman, poet Allen Ginsberg, and authors Alejo Carpentier and William S. Burroughs. Tim Plowman, authority on the genus Erythroxylum (coca) and...

In this article: Richard Evans Schultes, Richard Spruce, Harvard, Southeast Asia, Nobel Prize, World War II, Surgery, Muscle relaxant, Curare, and Coca

...Alan Alda. And there is a movie in the pipeline about Lucien Carr, the friend who brought Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs together, and his murder of a gay stalker which Kerouac and Burroughs helped to cover up in 1944. A film of On the...

In this article: Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, On the Road, Francis Ford Coppola, Lucien Carr, The Motorcycle Diaries, British Film Institute, University of Leicester, and University of Warwick

...remembrances she shares here involve the Beats. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso founded the Jack Kerouac of Disembodied Poetics, which was associated with the Naropa Institute. Faithfull taught lyric writing at the school and...

In this article: Marianne Faithfull, Psychology, Carl Jung, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Literature, Easy Come Easy Go, Cancer, and Breast cancer

...above my desk. Charles Gatewood's photos of celebrities -- Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Allen Ginsberg, Al Green, Abbie Hoffman, and others -- will be on display at San Francisco's Robert Tat Gallery from September 3 to October 31. The exhibition...

In this article: Bob Dylan, San Francisco, William Burroughs, Mardi Gras, Brion Gysin, and Abbie Hoffman

...formed, with Carr at the center. As Ginsberg put it, "Lou was the glue. " Carr, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs explored New York's grimier underbelly together. Carr had a taste for provocative behavior, for bawdy songs and for coarse...

In this article: Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, United Press International, Columbia University, New York City, Beat, and Lionel Trilling

...widely with leading poets, artists, theologians and philosophers of the day, including Robert Graves, Edwin Morgan, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Michael Horovitz and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

In this article: Sylvester Houedard, Jesus College, Oxford, Matsuo Basho, Meister Eckhart, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Horovitz, Mark Boyle, John Blofeld, Edwin Morgan, and Jerusalem Bible

...verse of her own made up words. Later prominent sound poets include Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Ada Verdun Howell, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Enzo Minarelli, Mathias Goeritz, and Andras Petocz. The poet Edith Sitwell coined the...

In this article: Bob Cobbing, Edith Sitwell, Ada Verdun Howell, Tristan Tzara, William S. Burroughs, and F. T. Marinetti

...in a ferment of creativity. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky first stayed there in 1957 and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Derek Raymond, Harold Norse and Gregory Corso, as well as Sinclair Beiles. It was here that Burroughs...

In this article: Beat Hotel, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Golding, Harold Norse, Paris, and Camille Pissarro