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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostil…
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culture · American poet and writer (1926–1997) · playwright · poet · writer · autobiographer · screenwriter · musician · teacher · photographer · diarist · librettist · also Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ginsberg, Ginsberg
Born 3 June 1926 · Died 5 April 1997 · Q6711
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“s long line was a dynamic technique few other poets had ventured to develop further, and Whitman is also often compared to Ginsberg because their poetry sexualized aspects of the male form. Many of Ginsberg”
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“Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance ... I”
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The Source Magazine: Inside a Street Poller Media’s Roughly 100-Person Operation Built Entirely Around the Sidewalk with Founder and CEO Shane Ginsberg and CCO Samantha McCarthy
The Guardian: Beat legend, ‘boy lover’: how should we reckon with Allen Ginsberg’s complex legacy?
Published video “Death to Van Gogh's Ear”.
The New York Times: Allen Ginsberg
Published video “Howl”.
Events marking the centenary of Ginsberg's birth were organized in coordination with the Allen Ginsberg Estate
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Published video “Cottage”.
Published video “Father Death”.
Published video “Maturity”.
Published video “Brothels Of Paris”.
Published video “The Fly”.
Published video “The School Boy”.
Published video “A Dream”.
Published video “The Human Abstract”.
Released album “Iron Horse”.
Published video “Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Death on All Fronts” performed by WHY?”.
Published video “September on Jessore Road by Allen Ginsberg, music by Ashes (Eraldo Bernocchi, Bill Laswel, & Reeno)”.
Published video “Pentagon Exorcism - Anne Waldman and Fast Speaking Music performing Allen Ginsberg's poem.”.
Published video “Oliver Ray & No Land feat Allen Ginsberg - Cremation Piece (On Neal's Ashes)”.
Published video “Philip Glass feat Allen Ginsberg "Have you seen this Movie?"”.
Published video “Jack Dangers feat Allen Ginsberg's "Holy Ghost on the Nod Over the Body of Bliss"”.
Published video “CJ Mirra & Kai Campos feat Allen Ginsberg's "Bixby Canyon"”.
brooklynvegan: Allen Ginsberg's 1989 Hal Willner-produced album getting expanded double LP reissue (watch "To Aunt Rose" video)
Published video “Seb Taylor featuring Allen Ginsberg's "Over Denver Again"”.
Laweekly: The Ghost and the Machine: Allen Ginsberg from Page to Camera to Metaverse
The Guardian: Beats connection: Allen Ginsberg’s inner circle – in pictures
Smithsonian Magazine: See Allen Ginsberg’s Photographs—and A.I.-Generated Poems Based on Them
Artnet: A New Show of Allen Ginsberg’s Photographs Will Also Feature Poems Generated by an A.I. Trained on Those Same Images
Published video “Ai Weiwei & O_Future “HUM BOM!” by Allen Ginsberg”.
The Cheat Sheet: Allen Ginsberg Agreed With William S. Burroughs: There’s Something Special About The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’
Published video “Allen Ginsberg Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on LSD use 1966”.
Under the Radar: Allen Ginsberg at Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of HOWL and Other Poems
Released album “At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & Other Poems”.
The Guardian: Howl: illuminating draft of Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem found
The Guardian: Nightcrawling with Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beatniks – in pictures
Released album “The Last Word on First Blues”.
Ginsberg was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields
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Released album “First Blues”.
Released album “Wichita Vortex Sutra”.
A tribute event took place at the Cathedral of St
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Surrounded by family and friends in his East Village loft in Manhattan, succumbing to liver cancer via complications of hepatitis at the age of 70
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Died 1997-04-05.
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Ginsberg gave what is thought to be his last reading at The Booksmith in San Francisco on December 16, 1996
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“Autorka: Naomi Ginsberg w liście”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found—the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.”
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“Byliśmy w sobie zakochani, toteż w ostatni wieczór rozebraliśmy się przy świetle księżyca i pokazaliśmy sobie nasze ciała, a potem ze śpiewem popędziliśmy z powrotem do domu.”
“Miłość jest nieodpartym pragnieniem, by ktoś nas nieodparcie pragnął.”
“Nic nie robię ze swoim życiem poza romantyzowaniem i rozpadem z powodu niezdecydowania.”
“Nie ma sensu pisać, gdy duch nie prowadzi pióra.”
“Przespałem się tu z kilkoma chłopakami, trochę drogo wyszło, no i nie byli jakoś szczególnie zainteresowani, ale co zaruchałem, to moje.”
Recorded a song co-written with Paul McCartney and Philip Glass, "The Ballad of the Skeletons", which reached number 8 on the Triple J Hottest 100 for that year
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For his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992
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Released album “Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949-1993”.
Ginsberg appeared in a documentary on NAMBLA called Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys (playing on the gay male slang term 'chickenhawk'), in which he read a "graphic ode to youth"
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Released album “Hydrogen Jukebox”.
Awarded John Jay Award (1993).
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Ginsberg visited the University of Maine at Orono to pay homage to the 90-year-old Carl Rakosi
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The French Minister of Culture appointed Ginsberg a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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Received a John Jay Award from Columbia
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Released album “Cosmopolitan Greetings”.
Ginsberg appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's award-winning film Silence = Death about the fight of gay artists in New York City for AIDS-education and the rights of HIV infected people
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Released album “The Lion For Real”.
Released album “Üvöltés”.
Won Robert Frost Medal (1986).
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Won Golden Wreath (1986).
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Released album “Holy Soul and Jelly Roll”.
Ginsberg was awarded the Golden Wreath by the Struga Poetry Evenings International Festival in Macedonia, the second American poet to be so awarded since W
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Released album “Meditation Rock”.
Newspapers reported in huge headlines that the Supreme Court had ruled child pornography illegal
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Released album “New York Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs”.
Ginsberg recorded a song called "Birdbrain
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Received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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Ginsberg received a note from the chief editor of The New York Times, apologizing for not having taken his allegations seriously
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Awarded National Book Award (1974).
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Awarded National Book Award for Poetry for The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1974).
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“s alleged involvement in drug trafficking, but it took ten years, and the publication of McCoy”
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Released album “Songs of Innocence and Experience”.
Buckley acceded and the poet chanted slowly as he played dolefully on a harmonium
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Ginsberg signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War, and later became a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advoca
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Ginsberg helped plan and organize a reception for Bhaktivedanta Swami at San Francisco International Airport, where fifty to a hundred hippies greeted the Swami, chanting Hare Krishna in the airport lounge with flowers i
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By members of the radical intellectual collective RESIST
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At the Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple
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Ginsberg was deported from Cuba for publicly protesting the persecution of homosexuals
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Was treated for a tropical disease, and it is speculated that he contracted hepatitis from an unsterilized needle administered by a doctor, which played a role in his death 37 years later
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Released album “Howl and Other Poems”.
Ginsberg surprised the literary world by abandoning San Francisco
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And a 1957 obscenity trial attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws criminalized male homosexual acts in every state
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Ginsberg was approached by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six Gallery— who asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery
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Upon the advice of a psychiatrist, Ginsberg dropped out of the working world to devote his entire life to poetry
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Referenced his "Blake vision" in his poem "Sunflower Sutra", saying "—I rushed up enchanted—it was my first sunflower, memories of Blake—my visions—"
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In San Francisco, Ginsberg met Peter Orlovsky, who remained his lifelong partner
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Kerouac began studying Buddhism and shared what he learned from Dwight Goddard's Buddhist Bible with Ginsberg
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In an apartment in East Harlem, Ginsberg experienced an auditory hallucination while masturbating and reading the poetry of William Blake which he later referred to as his "Blake vision"
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Studied at Columbia University (1948).
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Joined the Merchant Marine to earn money to continue his studies
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Discovered within himself "mountains of homosexuality
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Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State College before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson
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In Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson
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Born 1926-06-03.
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