October 07, 2014
Fifty-nine years ago today, Ginsberg performed his seminal poem for the first time, marking the public debut of the Beats.
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Fifty-nine years ago today, Ginsberg performed his seminal poem for the first time, marking the public debut of the Beats.
Read MoreRhinozeros, a literary magazine from the early ‘60s which published only 10 issues, introduced Germany to some of America’s greatest poets.
Read MoreMelt your heart with these photos of famous author BFFs hanging out, and read some of their finest words on friendship.
Read MoreWe take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
Read MoreAnne Carson’s new book Red Doc> inspired me to think of other works of poetry that made me feel, in Dickinson's words, "as if the top of my head were taken off." Here’s the result: from an Ouija board-assisted volume to a "starving hysterical naked" masterpiece.
Read MoreHoroscopes
are meant to be prophetic, but why can’t they be poetic? Instead of
reading your stars this month, try reading some Allen Ginsberg with
these Poetic Horoscopes taken straight from his work.
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