The Poetry of Our Youth April 25, 2013: Why can’t I hear the music of my youth with objectivity? I really don’t know if The Unforgettable Fire is a great album or not because I loved U2 so ardently in high school that the profound and sticky wistfulness of unfulfilled teenage desire roars back to life at each listening. Of course, many songs I still like from that time I know [...] by Camille Guthrie

Ginsberg Declares Lamantia as Forerunner March 18, 2013: [caption id="attachment_62845" align="alignright" width="500"] Cover to Lamantia's Destroyed Works. Collage by Bruce Conner, published by the Auerhahn Press in 1962[/caption] Last week we posted our enthusiasms for the forthcoming Collected Poems by Philip Lamantia, in which we did some digital digging into the archives of Poetry and assembled [...] by Harriet Staff

Allen Ginsberg’s Photos at the GalleristNY January 24, 2013: Michael H. Miller takes a look at the current Allen Ginsberg photo exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, summing up the whole show thusly: As a photographer, Ginsberg was no Robert Frank, though he was highly influenced by Frank’s candid and imperfect style (Frank also appears in some of the works here). But as [...] by Harriet Staff

Ginsberg Photo Exhibition Reviewed at NYT January 21, 2013: Over at the New York Times, Ken Johnson reviews "Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” at the Grey Art Gallery and is more or less unimpressed with Ginsberg's photographic works. Sure, Ginsberg's a great poet, says Johnson, but "The best you can say about the pictures Ginsberg took during two periods in which he dabbled in the [...] by Harriet Staff

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Interviewed at Interview January 10, 2013: Pardon the redundancy, but make your way over to Interview to read this great interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Christopher Bollen leads the conversation and introduces the piece by comparing Ferlinghetti to that other great American revolutionary George Washington: Our heroes tend not to own stores. But there is an exception—poet [...] by Harriet Staff

Allen Ginsberg’s First Blues January 4, 2013: Here's a hot tip for all you NY hep-cats! Join Allen Ginsberg's friends, collaborators, relatives and co-conspirators Lou Reed, Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, CA Conrad, Steven Taylor, Arthur's Landing and others for a night of poetry and songs in one of the quintessential downtown New York Spaces to breathe new life into "First Blues" [...] by Harriet Staff

Last Chance to Win a Ginsberg Poster December 19, 2012: Now is your last chance to show your Ginsberg smarts and win a super cool poster! It makes a perfect holiday gift (yeah right, we know you're keeping it for yourself!). The questions: What poem is this line from?: "come Poet shut up eat my word, and taste my mouth in your ear" Your hint is that the poem is on Volume 3 of "Holy Soul [...] by Harriet Staff

Muse to Kerouac and Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy Profiled at The New Yorker December 13, 2012: Scott Staton writes about the "holy fool" Neal Cassidy over at The New Yorker. With Walter Salles’s film adaptation of On the Road opening in theaters on December 21st, Staton looks at Cassidy's place in the Beat canon. He writes: Cassady was a complicated soul whose creative energies found release through an immoderate enthusiasm [...] by Harriet Staff

Ginsberg Poster Giveaway Round 3 December 12, 2012: If you haven't won one of these babies yet, now's your chance! The good folks at the Allen Ginsberg Estate have posted question número tres in their poster giveaway: Our trivia question today to win one of the Planet News posters below is as follows: What tracks on "Holy Soul Jelly Roll" are from the first session that Arthur Russell [...] by Harriet Staff

Ginsberg Poster Giveaway Round 2 December 5, 2012: Make your way to Mr. Ginsberg's Facebook page and answer this ditty: Trivia question to win one of the "Ballad of the Skeletons" posters shown below: What speaker is Ginsberg referring to when he says, "Said the speaker skeleton, yes you will!" in the first line of "Ballad of the Skeletons"? Send your answer to [...] by Harriet Staff