Allen Ginsberg CDs & Online Streams
Dial-A-Poem Poets Online
John Giorno's Poetry Systems Dial-A-Poem catalogue from the 70s & 80s is now online. Poems & music ranging from Ginsberg, Burroughs, Waldman, Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Cabaret Voltaire, John Giorno himself and many many others. [more...]
First Thought Best Thought: Burroughs, DiPrima, Ginsberg & Waldman
“The Art of Spontaneous & Inspired Writing — Taught by Four Legendary Mentors of the Craft.” A 4 CD set, this is the first landmark release from Naropa University’s treasured audio archives. [more...]
New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs
Chicago’s Locust Music have re-issued Allen’s 1973 release as recorded by Harry Smith at the Chelsea Hotel. Browse this site for all sorts of brilliant recording curiosities and forgotten treasures. [more...]
Out Now! Allen Ginsberg CD Poetry Collection
A collection of more than three dozen poems in verse and song recorded live at the Knitting Factory, May 1995. Street date is Dec 3, 2004. [more...]
The Voice of the Poet: Allen Ginsberg
Random House has added Allen Ginsberg to its prestigious "Voice of the Poet" series. This CD features the poet reading 12 poems, including Howl, Plutonian Ode and lesser know ones as well. Comes with complete text [more...]
Wichita Vortex Sutra
At long last the release of Allen's walloping performance of this poem with New York City music royalty including Lenny Kaye, Marc Ribot, Philip Glass, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Dave Mansfield, Elliott Sharp & more.. yet another genius Hal Willner production at that. [more...]
Archival Sources
Allen Ginsberg Papers - Stanford University Department of Special Collections
Explore the complete catalouge of the Allen Ginsberg Collection at Stanford University. [more...]
Celestial Homework - Literary History of the Beat Generation
Allen's specialised reading list for "Literary History of the Beat Generation," a course taught at Naropa Institute during the summer of 1977. Site design by Eric Botticelli, Jordan Matheny, and Steve Silberman, with the help of Derek Powazek. [more...]
Internet Archive
Internet Archive are now hosting audio links for 139 lectures from Naropa University from 1974 through the 1990s. These include readings and lectures by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Robert Duncan, Harry Smith and many many more. [more...]
Jerry Aronson Ginsberg Film and Video archive at Stanford
Herein lists materiels shot by Aronson while filming "The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg." [more...]
New York Public Library Jack Kerouac Archive
The Jack Kerouac Archive spans the years 1920 to 1977, with the bulk dated 1935 to 1969. The collection chiefly consists of holograph and typescript drafts of Kerouac's novels, stories, poetry, plays and screenplays, journals, diaries, notebooks, autobiographical and spiritual prose, fantasy horseracing, and fantasy baseball game. Other materials include Jack Kerouac's artwork, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs, personal and financial papers (including bank statements and canceled checks), publishing contracts, newspaper cuttings, maps, and realia. [more...]
The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference recordings
The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference 54 hours of recordings of New American poets including Ginsberg, Duncan, Olson, Creeley, Levertov & Avison [more...]
Transatlantic Howl: reading on internet 2
Amiri Baraka, Alice Notley, Ed Sanders Anne Waldman and others, each reading sections of Howl & making comments from different parts of the planet. [more...]
Essays, Articles, Interviews and Reviews
Beat Studies Association
Founded in 2004 with the purpose of encouraging research on beat generation and associated writers. Affiliated with the American Literature Association, all scholars, teachers, and students engaged in researching, writing, and teaching about the Beat Generation movement and its participants are invited to join. [more...]
Ed De Grazia on Ginsberg's & other's Censorship Struggles
ALLEN GINSBERG, NORMAN MAILER, BARNEY ROSSET: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled [more...]
Essay on Allen’s photography
Review of Allen’s photo exhibition at Tibor DeNagy Gallery from Artforum, December, 1995. [more...]
Howl 50th Celebration at Skylight Books
Teresa Conboy shares with us the Howl 50th Celebration at Los Angeles' Skylight books, in Los Feliz Village [more...]
My Buddhist Rabbi, by Eric Drooker
Illustrator Eric Drooker, a Lower East Side local, collaborated with Allen on the book "Illuminated Poems." [more...]
Patti Smith Babelogue Honors Allen Ginsberg
Tribute to Allen on this Patti Smith fan site. Extensive links for obituaries and memorials from the month he died and more. [more...]
The Joy of Mastering Clichés in English
A former student of Allen's at Brooklyn College talks on her experience. Aired on NPR's "All Things Considered" April 24, 2005 [more...]
Ginsberg Affiliates, Friends and Projects
Bob Dylan: BobDylan.com
The "official" Bob Dylan Web site...this one is hosted by Columbia Records. [more...]
Bob Dylan: Expecting Rain
The premiere Bob Dylan fan site...need we say more? [more...]
David Amram at home around the world
David Amram, the living American treasure's website repleat with tour dates, biography, catalogues, reveiws and much much more [more...]
Dharma Lion/Howling For Allen
From the ashes of the False Prophets, whom Allen often played with in NYC, HEAL! composed and performed this track not long after Allen's death as a tribute to him. Stephen Ielpi, Steven Taylor, (Allen's long time accompanist), featuring: Debra DeSalvo, Eric Drooker, Anthony Sepulveda & Heather Hardy, along with guitarist Myztico who's website is hosting this link... [more...]
Elsa Dorfman
Photographer Elsa Dorfman - who has graciously allowed us to use some of her images - has long been a friend of the poets, Allen especially. Her best known work is her 1974 "Elsa’s Housebook: A Woman’s Photojournal." It's out of print but you can still get glimpses of it and her other work here. [more...]
Eric Drooker's Official Site
Illustrator Eric Drooker's collaborated with Allen on a number of projects. [more...]
Gemini GEL
The folks at Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited), a publishing workshop in Los Angeles, were Allen's good friends. They commissioned a series of lithograph & screenprint combinations that are available through thier site. [more...]
Gordon Ball Gallery & Home Page
Gordon Ball, Allen's editor on his published journals books, took many photos of Allen around the farm in Cherry Valley as well as many other places along the way. Now professor at Virginia Military Institute, he took the famous image of cadets reading 'Howl.' [more...]
Graham Seidman
Here is the Gallery of Paris, a series of collages of Gregory Corso and Allen in Paris at various points in their lives. [more...]
Grateful Dead
The official Grateful Dead Web site, and gateway to the Grateful Dead universe. [more...]
Harry Smith Archives
The cantakerous genius, musicologist, anthropologist, occultist, Harry Smith, was someone Allen greatly admired ever since they met in the early 1950s. Look here for a basic introduciton to Harry Smith. [more...]
Jewel Heart
Tibetan Lama, Gelek Rinpoche, was Allen’s friend and teacher from 1989, on. His organization, Jewel Heart, has centers in Ann Arbor, New York, Neijmegen, in the Netherlands, and Malaysia. [more...]
John Hopkins
John Hopkins took some great shots of Allen during the Albert Hall poetry reading in London in May of 1965. Also, loads of other images to check out! [more...]
Larry Keenan, photographer
Thanks to Larry Keenan's masterful photography, we are left with a visually potent view of the Beat Generation and beyond. Keenan's photo-documentation is necessary, for it captures many essential moments -- of Ginsberg, Whalen, Cassady, Corso, McClure, Dylan, and many others. (Mary Sands) [more...]
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a nonprofit research and educational organization. They help scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for and report on studies into the healing and spiritual potentials of MDMA, psychedelic drugs and marijuana. [more...]
Naropa Institute
Allen co-founded the writing school here with Anne Waldman in 1974, where he continued to teach until his death in 1997. The first accredited Buddhist University in the west, it continues to thrive with a diverse faculty. [more...]
Paris Records Official Website
A repository of all the Paris Records recording projects that Michael Minzer & Hal Willner produced: William S Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Kathy Acker, Edgar Allen Poe & Terry Southern, with additional information, sound clips & photos. [more...]
Paul Bowles the authorized website
An important collection of essays about and by Paul Bowles, as well as a catalguing of his musical works, liner notes to recordings, related films, documentaries, and books [more...]
Philip Glass
Go here for an introduction to the prolific composer, Philip Glass, and his work. [more...]
Protest Records
This recently launched free music site, in their words, "exists for musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war." Allready on board are Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman Cat Power, Beastie Boys and many more. [more...]
Quentin Crisp Archives
The mission of the Quentin Crisp Archives is to preserve and maintain the manuscripts, artworks by and about, and various artifacts related to the life and legend of Quentin Crisp for the purpose of education, research, and the promotion of his philosophy of individuality, self acceptance, and tolerance. This Web site will be an integral part of the Archives, so please check back this page for updates as well as a variety of photographs and reminiscences. [more...]
Randy Roark
Poet Randy Roark transcribed many of Allen’s Lectures at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He is a poet in his own right...here are some of his works. [more...]
Ron Whitehead - Tapping My Own Phone
Kentucky poet & publisher Ron Whitehead's boundless enthusiasm for poetry is contagious. Perhaps first known for his now defunct White Fields Press/Literary Renaissance books & broadsides, and host of the insomniacathon (upwards of 72 hr poetry marathons) now foremost a poet and colaborator [more...]
Shambhala International
Shambhala International is the organization launched by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and is affiliated with Naropa University. [more...]
Steve Tromans Jazz Composer
An accomplished jazz composer & pianist. He is currently working on a musical setting based on Ginsberg’s poetry, titled “Howl & Other Poems” which he will perform at Scotland’s Stanza Festival in St. Andrew’s, Scotland in March 2005 and at Cheltenham International Jazz Festival on 1st May 2005. [more...]
The Official Fugs Website
A one-stop site for all things Fugs, present and past [more...]
War Resister’s League
A nexus of information on alternatives to war, the War Resisters League is one of the many activist organizations Allen supported. [more...]
Ginsberg: Beat & Poetry related
Ashes and Blues
Another site dedicated to the cause... [more...]
Beat Books and Collectibles
Formerly the Montery Coffehouse Bookshop, this online store features beat literature with some memorabilia items, videos and tapes. [more...]
Breaking The Rules - Across American Counterculture
Three incredible and exhausting years of production are over and the film is finally wrapped. A cineastic journey through time across the history of American counter culture, from the Beat Generation in New York and San Francisco all the way to the beginnings of HipHop in the Bronx. [more...]
Cherry Valley Editions
Founded in 1974, Cherry Valley Editions has published poetry and fiction from an eclectic list of artists including: William Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Allen Ginsberg, Claude Pelieu and Mary Beach. [more...]
City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Infamous independant publisher and bookstore - started by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - that first published writings by Allen Ginsberg, many of the beats, and much, much more. [more...]
LitKicks
This enduring and thriving literary site seems like it’s been around since before the Web existed! Levi has done a bang on job here, with impressive lists of bulletin boards, plenty of discussions and basic biographical information on many of the greats. We love you! [more...]
Poetry Sites, Venues and Fellow Poets
Amiri Baraka
Amiri & Allen met in the late 1950s and remaind friends ever since. Here is his official website. [more...]
Big Bridge
"A Webzine of poetry and everything else" in their own words. This site is a nexus of living poets as well as artists, poetry magazines and and general literary information. Great links here as well. [more...]
British Electronic Poetry Centre
Here's a look at what's going on accross the pond in the English language. [more...]
Diane Diprima
Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes. A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity." -- Allen Ginsberg [more...]
Electric Review
THE ELECTRIC REVIEW is an on-line book and music broadside dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts. The magazine will offer bi-weekly critiques of recent book and music releases, offering readers a broad sampling of material while presenting writers and musicians of all genres a more equitable chance for publicity. [more...]
Electronic Poetry Center
An impressive site with lots of biographical information about important writers. Authors' pages link to their online work. [more...]
Long Shot Magazine "Beat Bush" issue
Volume 27, our new "Beat Bush Issue," has just been released and is available in bookstores [more...]
Michael McClure's home page
Poet Michael McClure was a longtime friend of Allen's, dating back to mid-1950s. Here's A brief biography, some of his poems, and some news and reading dates. [more...]
Morden Tower, Newcastle, England
"Morden Tower is one of Britain's best-known literary landmarks. For the past 43 years, hundreds of poets have come from all over the world to give readings in this ancient turret-room on Newcastle's city walls." Allen's poet friends Tom and Connie Pickard started the reading series here in 1964, and they continue to this day. Allen read "Kaddish" for only his third time here in 1968, Basil Bunting in the audience. [more...]
Museum of American Poetics
Jim Cohn's brilliant amalgam of poets, poetry and related web sites. [more...]
Oxford Modern American Poetry Web site
An indispensible poetry resource. [more...]
Robert Creeley
Poet and longtime close friend of Allen's. [more...]
Terry Southern
Official website of the dark humorist, run by the his estate & his son Nile. [more...]
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
One of Allen's local New York haunts, the Poetry Project was founded in 1966 and is now one of the premier forums for innovative poetry in the United States. Visit their Web site to find a resource for small publishers, contact information, reviews, and much more! [more...]
Tom Christopher
Neal Cassady’s biographer’s Web site. [more...]
Tom Raworth
U.K. Poet, Tom Raworth's Web site, including links to some lesser known as well as important poets with tributes to the late John Wieners, Philip Whalen, Kenneth Koch, Ed Dorn and Fielding Dawson. [more...]
Van Gogh's Ear
Van Gogh’s Ear is an anthology series devoted to publishing excellent poetry in English by major voices and innovative new talent from around the globe. Without affiliation with specific movements or schools of poetry, Van Gogh’s Ear seeks only to publish the best poetry being written. The anthology welcomes all work, from traditional to experimental, daring, thought-provoking poetry of unusual forms and language genius. In this regard, we aim to become a major reference point among poetry publications worldwide. [more...]
Tributes, Celebrations, Interpretations
John Turnbull & The Birth of the Cool
A 75 minute jazz cabaret which celebrates Allen Ginsberg, the beat generation, the beat poets, with Bebop Jazz originally composed for the show by Paul Cutlan. "Birth Of The Cool" explores the beat generation poets, their lives and loves, their poetry and prose and the jazz that inspired them with a tour of USA University campuses. A seductive evening of cool words and hot jazz, John Turnbull plans to bring his one man show about the lives of the beat poets to the USA. [more...]
