The Letters of Allen Ginsberg ed Bill Morgan, DaCapo Press Fall 2008

Over the years, many individual letters have been published, and several books of letters between Ginsberg and individual recipients have been published, most notably the Ginsberg-Orlovsky letters, the Ginsberg-Cassady letters, and the letters between Ginsberg and his father. In the future this trend will continue, but this will be the definitive collection that will draw from all sources and present an autobiography in letters of the life of this great poet and personality. [more...]

Beat and Beyond: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Palz, NY presents Selected photographs by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet and leading apostle of the Beat Generation. Includes portraits of members of the “Beat” era of the 1950s and 1960s, self portraits, and famous acquaintances of the poet. [more...]

Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg Documentary Airs on LOGO

For those of you in North America, LOGO network will be running an abridged version of Jerry Aronson's documentary periodically over the next month. Check their site for air times. [more...]

A Blue Hand: The Beats in India (Deborah Baker) April 2008

Drawing from extensive research in India, undiscovered letters, journals, and memoirs, acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker has woven a many layered literary mystery out of Ginsberg's odyssey. A Blue Hand follows him and his companions as they travel from the ashrams of the Himalayan foothills to Delhi opium dens and the burning pyres of Benares. They encounter an India of charlatans and saints, a country of spectacular beauty and spiritual promise and of devastating poverty and political unease. Check here for further information, and book launch events [more...]

Earliest recording of Howl unearthed at Reed College

While doing research for his biography on Gary Snyder, scholar John Suiter stumbled across this lost recording from a month before the official 'earliest known.' In his piece for Reed Magazine, Suiter draws up an analysis of the whole recording offering useful textual insights and comparisons to the final published text. Reed College have provided a stream of the entire reading on their site as well. [more...]

Book of Martyrdom & Artifice First Journals & Poems paperback out now

Ginsberg's earliest Journals, "The Book of Martyrdom & Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952" meticulously edited by Bill Morgan and Juanita Lieberman now available in paperbac. Selected Letters, edited by Bill Morgan are due out this September, also by Da Capo Press [more...]

Kerouac Collection on Exhibition at New York Public Library

Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, closed on March 16, 2008. However catalogs are still available through the New York Public Library website. [more...]

Complete Collected Poems paperback now in stores

This volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, updating Collected Poems 1947-1980, to include his last collections: White Shroud, Cosmopolitan Greetings and Death & Fame. [more...]

Documentary: Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg extended DVD on release

Jerry Aronson's long awaited DVD release of The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg is now in stores. Included are hours of exclusive interviews with among others, Bono, Johnny Depp, Philip Glass, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Ed Sanders, Andy Warhol and many more. [more...]

A Poet in the Lower East Side film now available

A week in the life of Allen Ginsberg spent with Hungarian writer, poet, and translator Istvan Eorsi, and a small camera crew in the streets of New York. Sharing thoughtful discussions with the famed American Beat poet, Eorsi himself was known for his sarcastic, often abrasive style and passionately held political views on revisionist Marxism and the 1956 Hungarian revolution, for which he was subsequently jailed. Eorsi died of leukemia in 2005, but his transnational engagement with the poetry is kept alive in this documentary. "Vivid, funny, and filled with all manner of spontaneous poetry" (J. Hoberman). [more...]

Tony Trigilio : Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics

Author Tony Trigilio examines Ginsberg's Buddhism as an imperfect but deepening influence on the major poems of his career. “Ginsberg’s struggle with Buddhism is central to understanding his post-‘Kaddish’ visionary work; and only through an understanding of his maturation as a Buddhist can we consider the scope of his career in detail.” —From the preface [more...]

Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression, in stores now

The amazing story of the historic First Amendment Howl obscenity case. Book includes the trial testimony, previously unpublished Ginsberg correspondence, first-hand reportage, and essays on censorship with many cartoons and photos. Edited by Nancy Peters & Bill Morgan [more...]

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. Bill Morgan's highly anticipated biography, the first written since Ginsberg's passing, is due to hit stores November 1, 2006. Viking/Penguing [more...]

Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish: A 20th Century American Ecstatic Narrative Poem/CD

At long last Ginsberg's 1964 Brandeis University Kaddish reading, originally released on Atlantic Records, is now available on CD. 'Written in one one-stop 40-hour marathon session fueled by dexedrine, LSD and coffee, "Kaddish" stands as an epic testament to Ginsberg's literary talent. Here is Ginsberg reading the work, available for the first time on CD. Includes new liner notes by Beat-era scholar Harvey Kubernik.' [more...]

Harold Chapman, Beats à Paris: Paris und die Dichter der Beatgeneration 1957–1963

OMC Gallery Dusseldorf/Huntington Beach and Michael Kellner teamed up to finally get this book in print. These images hitherto were only available in a small paperback circulating in the early '80s. This is one of the few visual documentations of the 'Beat Hotel' days, when Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and many more loged at this tiny rooming house in Paris' Left Bank. German text with English translation insert. We have a few copies for sale in the "books & CDs" section of our site. Copies should be available at City Lights in San Francisco, and St. Mark's Books in New York, or by contacting OMC Gallery [more...]

First Blues reissue in stores now

This album first hit the shelves in 1983. Produced by John Hammond Sr, this was a double album including Bob Dylan, Arthur Russel, Peter Orlovsky, and many more. It was remaindered and shreded shortly after it's release because of a mixup at the record label. Runt LLC have reissued in it's entirety [more...]

Howl - An Appreciation edited by Jason Shinder

The year 2006 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of “Howl,” and The Poem That Changed America, edited by Jason Shinder, will celebrate and shed new light on this profound cultural work. With new essays by many of today’s most distinguished writers, including Frank Bidart, Andrei Codrescu, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Robert Pinsky, and Luc Sante, The Poem That Changed America reveals the pioneering influence of “Howl” down through the decades and its powerful resonance today. March 2006 [more...]

Médecins Sans Frontierès Benefit CD

Curated by Mark Logan and Current 93's David Tibet, this set features mainly previously unreleased material by 75 artists, including Allen Ginsberg. All the proceeds from the sale of this project will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontierès specifically to target their work on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. They're reported to have allready raised 22,500 from the project. http://www.jnanarecords.com/newsf.html [more...]

Voice of the Poet

Harper Collins releases “Allen Ginsberg Live at Knitting Factory”

New York Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs

Eloide Lauten: Waking in New York, Portrait of Allen Ginsberg

Howl U. S. A.

Jonah Raskin: American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation

Death & Fame (all editions)

“Things I’ll not Do” 13th Stanza should read “nor caves of Dunhuang” not “cares”.

Selected Poems (all editions)

pg 40: “Song” should read “I always wanted to return to the body”, not “my body”.

Selected Poems (all editions)

page 272 “Sad Dust Glories” bottom of page, should be “needlehairs” not “needlechairs”

Selected Poems (all editions)

page 295 “Father Death Blues” 4th stanza should read: “Sobbing breasts’ll ease your Deaths” not “case”.