Allen Ginsburg

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Allen Ginsburg has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Nov 2025). Mentioned as part of the 60s–70s NYC scene Patti Smith recounts having bumped into; referenced as Allen (sic) Ginsburg — likely Allen Ginsberg.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.