Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's ...

Mekas’s diaristic film clips, left behind when he died, fuel a new documentary that renders an intimate portrait of a man who ...

It was under Stouman that the Black Cat grew its gay clientele. Though straight, Stouman was a Holocaust survivor, according to KQED, and accepted all comers. Between Stouman’s acceptance and the fact ...

Despite him only living there a year, Cassady’s connections to the building are far from tenuous. He and his mother Maude moved across the street to a boarding house known as The Snowden in 1933, ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital. In the late 1940s ...

At Boulder, Colorado-based Naropa University, you can study a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with a minor in psychedelic ...

COMMENTARY: The recent argument during Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House raises an important question of what ...

I have done it myself and, to paraphrase poet Allen Ginsberg, I have seen the best minds of my generation naked and hysterical in their worship of the online blood-God. Rising Bollywood star John ...

Style, Vol. 46, No. 1, Public Discourse, Forms, Plots, and Consciousness (Spring 2012), pp. 89-94 (6 pages) In “Howl” Ginsberg places his own revolutionary poetry of suffering—his portrayal of outcast ...