The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

* 1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.

In another recent case of Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown Justice Ginsberg held that for the exercise of general jurisdiction in personam, the defendant must be ' essentially at home '.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange.

In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg.

While some of the original Beats embraced the beatniks, or at least found the parodies humorous ( Ginsberg, for example, appreciated the parody in Pogo ) others criticized the beatniks as inauthentic posers.

Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1977

Their association with or tutelage under Ginsberg at The Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and later at Brooklyn College stressed the social-activist legacy of the Beats and created its own body of literature.

Norman Podhoretz, a student at Columbia with Kerouac and Ginsberg, later became a critic of the Beats.

Allen Ginsberg wrote drafts of the poem " Howl " in mid-1954 to 1955, purportedly at a coffeehouse known today as the Caffe Mediterraneum in Berkeley, California.

The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick — a painter and co-founder of the Six — who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.

In response to Ginsberg's reading, McClure wrote: " Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America ..." Soon afterwards, it was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who ran City Lights Bookstore and the City Lights Press.

Thus the final collection contained several other poems written at that time ; with these poems, Ginsberg continued the experimentation with long lines and a fixed base he'd discovered with the composition of " Howl " and these poems have likewise become some of Ginsberg's most famous: " America ", " Sunflower Sutra ," " A Supermarket in California ", etc.

Ginsberg and Snyder, after hitch-hiking from San Francisco, read from their poems in the Anna Mann dormitory at Reed College, Snyder's alma mater.

It is directly addressed to Carl Solomon, whom Ginsberg met during a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital in 1949 ; called " Rockland " in the poem, it was actually Columbia Presbyterian Psychological Institute.

In that sworn statement, the organizers indicated that " Einhorn, given a small role on the stage at Earth Day, grabbed the microphone and refused to give up the podium for thirty minutes " During Einhorn ’ s murder trial, one of the Earth Day organizing committee members, psychiatrist Donald Nathanson, took the stand and under oath testified that the committee had barred Einhorn from their discussions, considering him a nuisance .. Again, under oath and penalty of perjury, Dr. Nathanson said there was no master of ceremonies and Einhorn ’ s only role at the event had been as a liaison with poet and featured speaker Allen Ginsberg.

In 1947, Cassady and his wife moved to New York City, where they met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University through Hal Chase, another protégé of Justin W. Brierly's.

Carolyn originally dated Jack Kerouac and would leave the Beat group shortly after walking in on Neal, Allen Ginsberg and Neal's wife at the time, LuAnne, in bed together.

Cassady shared an apartment with Allen Ginsberg and Charles Plymell in 1963 at 1403 Gough Street, San Francisco.

Many considered it the beginning of a new movement, and the reputation of Ginsberg and those associated with the Six Gallery reading spread throughout San Francisco.

" After beginning to read Part II, Ginsberg said to the audience, " I don't really feel like reading anymore.

Carl Solomon introduced the work of Antonin Artaud to Ginsberg, and the poetry of André Breton had direct influence on the poem Kaddish.

Kaddish also known as Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg ( 1894-1956 ) is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956.

Ginsberg wrote a part of his moving and mature poem Kaddish at the hotel and Corso wrote the mushroom cloud-shaped poem Bomb.

The poetry of Allen Ginsberg often touches on Jewish themes ( notably the early autobiographical works such as Howl and Kaddish ).

# Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems, 1961

Ginsberg cites Artaud's " Van Gogh -- The Man Suicided by Society " as a direct influence on " Howl ", along with Apollinaire's " Zone ", García Lorca's " Ode to Walt Whitman ", and Schwitters ' " Priimiititiii ".

Saul Williams, for example, cites Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Bob Kaufman as major influences.

Dylan cites Ginsberg and Kerouac as major influences.

A major figure in the expansion of the genre was promoter Bill Graham, whose first rock concert in 1965 was a benefit that included Alan Ginsberg and the then unknown Jefferson Airplane on the bill.

Later, in the 1950s, Patchen became a major influence on the younger Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Ginsberg continued to publish his major books of poetry with the press for the next 25 years.

Poet Allen Ginsberg bought a farm there in the 1960s, and the town became a haven and destination point for many of the major personalities of the Beat scene: William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Smith, Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu and many others all spent time either living or visiting there.

In July 2009, as part of a major William Burroughs symposium, NakedLunch @ 50, a special tribute was held outside 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur, with Jean-Jacques Lebel unveiling a plaque commemorative, now permanently hammered to the outside wall next to the main entrance, honoring the Beat Hotel's seven most famous occupants: B. Gysin, H. Norse, G. Corso, A. Ginsberg, P. Orlovsky, I. Sommerville, W. Burroughs.

The male-male erotic tradition contains poems by major poets such as Abu Nuwas, Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Fernando Pessoa and Allen Ginsberg.

The Free Press wrote about and was often directly involved in the major historic issues and people of the 1960s and ' 70s such as the Chicago 7 Trial, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman.

Ginsberg recommended Grauerholz to Burroughs as a possible assistant and their working relationship began in this simple manner, yet grew to be a major factor in the popularization of Burroughs and his works.

Rimbaud would be a major influence on Ginsberg ’ s poetry.

At Columbia, Holman studied with Kenneth Koch, Eric Bentley, and Michael Wood but claims that his “ major poetry schooling ,” was “ the Lower East Side, with Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, Miguel Piñero, Hettie Jones, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, Steve Cannon, et al .”

Edgar Allan Poe is occasionally acknowledged, and Ginsberg claimed Emily Dickinson was an influence on Beat poetry.

Poet Allen Ginsberg claimed his introduction to Artaud, specifically " To Have Done with the Judgement of god ", by Carl Solomon had a tremendous influence on his most famous poem " Howl ".

Like his stories, his poems show the influence of modernist writers from Arthur Rimbaud and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Christopher Okigbo, and confirm his proclivity for perceptive social critique, intense self-exploration, and verbal daring.

Blake also had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg and songwriters Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, and Van Morrison.

His early works, including his first book Thunder Road, Thunder Heart ( 1988 ), show the influence of American Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski.

He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers.

Other contributors included John Clellon Holmes, Larry Rivers, Carl Solomon, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Marshall McLuhan, and Kenneth Patchen, which gave it influence disproportionate to its small circulation of a few thousand.

Released the week of the 1929 stock market crash, Gods ' Man would continue to exert influence well beyond the Depression era, becoming an important source of inspiration for Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.

However, lyricist Roger Waters has denied the Ginsberg poem was any influence on his lyrics.

In this respect for poetry, the San-Francisco-Sound writers were no doubt also influenced by the Beat Generation poets of the San Francisco Renaissance of a decade before ( and, incidentally, Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder had already served to influence people like Dylan ).