Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac and Cassady struck up a deep and passionate friendship; Ginsberg and Cassady became lovers. According to the Beat Museum, love poems that Ginsberg wrote in ...
There, he witnessed the start of a fabled literary bond between his fellow poets Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, to whom Ginsberg dedicated his seminal poem “Howl,” first published in 1956.