“I just stayed away from poets like Allen Ginsberg, because they were too popular,” Nasser-Frederick says. “I didn’t need to read them. Everyone else read them.” But right now, the 24-year-old ...

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In 2007, author John Suiter was digging through the archives at Reed College's Hauser Memorial Library when he uncovered a rare treasure: a reel-to-reel tape of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg giving a ...

“I don’t really know if I’ve got the energy,” Allen Ginsberg admits. But a moment later he launches in: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging ...