From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

Of them, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs — both Greenwich Village residents — also wrote bluntly and honestly about homosexuality.

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.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

Objecting to Caen's twist on the term, Allen Ginsberg wrote to the New York Times to deplore " the foul word beatnik ," commenting, " If beatniks and not illuminated Beat poets overrun this country, they will have been created not by Kerouac but by industries of mass communication which continue to brainwash man.

Allen Ginsberg wrote about a visit to Wichita in his poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, for which Philip Glass subsequently wrote a solo piano piece.

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.

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.

Ginsberg says, " I remembered the archetypal rhythm of Holy Holy Holy weeping in a bus on Kearny Street, and wrote most of it down in notebook there ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg also wrote a poem about the Kesey / Angels relationship.

In his 1955 poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg wrote that part of the purpose for writing his poetry was " stand before reader speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head.

Burroughs himself was very displeased with the first edition and this was the main reason for rewriting it so thoroughly: in 1961 he wrote to his friend Allen Ginsberg that he rewrote it extensively while he was working on Dead Fingers Talk, mostly because he was displeased with bad cut-ups and introduced linear material to replace it.

Ginsberg wrote a screenplay based on the poem.

* Al Aronowitz, Writer, influential behind-the-scenes 60's culture-broker, wrote the seminal articles that brought Beat culture and Beatlemania into American consciousness, friend of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Amiri Baraka, George Harrison and others, introduced the Beatles to Bob Dylan and marijuana.

Allen Ginsberg, in describing the book, wrote, " Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junkie lady ".

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

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 and Rice, in a commentary submitted to the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ( EHP ), argued that the 2005 NAS RfD was not protective of human health based on the following:

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 '.

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.

Ginsberg mentions Shelley's Adonais at the beginning of Kaddish, and cites it as a major influence on the composition of one of his most important poems.

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.

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.

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.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

The first time Michael McClure met Ginsberg, they talked about Blake: McClure saw him as a revolutionary ; Ginsberg saw him as a prophet.

( Ginsberg was in Tangiers at the time, and not charged.

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.

Having failed in their attempts to successfully censor Allen Ginsberg ’ s Howl, the performances of Lenny Bruce and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the police department was intent to succeed this time.

He was on the bill at San Francisco's Six Gallery on October 7, 1955, when poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem Howl for the first time.

A charismatic but often difficult personality, Graham produced shows attracting elements of America's now legendary counterculture of the time such as Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and The Fish, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Committee, The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, and, a particular favorite of Graham's, The Grateful Dead.

Vancouver Poetry Conference brought together for the first time, a decisive company of then disregarded poets such as Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, Philip Whalen ... together with as yet unrecognised younger poets of that time, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge and many more.

While living there he was arrested for heroin possession, during which time police searched Vollmer's home, unearthing letters from Ginsberg discussing a possible shipment of marijuana.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who was at that time a Court of Appeals judge, ruled that the ALA lacked standing in the case.

Anarchism continued to be influential in important literary and intellectual personalities of the time such as Albert Camus, Herbert Read, Paul Goodman, Dwight Macdonald, Allen Ginsberg, Julian Beck and the French Surrealist group led by André Breton which now openly embraced anarchism and collaborated in the Fédération Anarchiste.

In 1977 a complete edition of the original text was published by Penguin Books with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg ; sections of the manuscript referring to Burroughs's homosexuality, which had been edited out of earlier editions, were included for the first time.

Carr's Beat crowd ( which Ginsberg called " the Libertine Circle ") was, for a time, shattered by the killing.

Allen Ginsberg used to be one of the store's clerks for a time.