to whom Ginsberg dedicated his seminal poem “Howl,” first published in 1956. The friendship among the three men was one of many colorful episodes in the life of Mr. Stern, a “counterculture ...

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

Judy Collins' husband Louis Nelson, who designed the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., died in December at ...

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 homosexuals ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after her death, poet Nikki Giovanni has been awarded one of the top honors for her art form, the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. The Poetry Society of America said ...

He met Allen Ginsberg in Manhattan when both were briefly ... where he planned to study poetry, was even briefer. Its rector, the painter Josef Albers, was, Mr. Stern recalled, “out of the ...

"And I still always think about Allen [Ginsberg] when I'm here," said Patti Smith before reading the late Beat poet's "Howl." ...

The Bengali translation of Nathalie Handal’s book Geography of Loss is out. When the Palestinian-American poet was in town ...

Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Judy Collins is reflecting on a life well lived with her late husband Louis Nelson — and revealing how a new book of poetry has helped her process her grief. The “Both ...

Despite him only living there a year, Cassady’s connections to the building are far from tenuous. He and his mother Maude ...