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

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

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 ...

Bands including the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti made appearances. A parachuter—rumored to be famous chemist Owsley Stanley ...

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 ...

The R.E.M. frontman performed a cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" in a rare solo appearance at Carnegie ...

He met Allen Ginsberg in Manhattan when both were briefly checked into Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute. He built musical instruments for the avant-garde composer Harry Partch.