Allen Ginsberg, 5th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-4-1982
Location
Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building; Webb University Center
Author/Artist Bio
Allen Ginsberg's first collection of poetry, "Howl and other Poems," was the basis of an obscenity trial in San Francisco in 1957, where the book was declared "legal." Since that time, he has published 13 books of poetry, including "Fall of America," which won the National Book Award in 1974, 11 books of prose, and eight phonograph records. Ginsberg has also been active as a film actor, anti-war activist, lecturer, teacher, and composer for the past 20 years. In 1974, along with the poet Anne Waldman, he founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute. He has read and published his work widely, and he has been described as "the most significant poet to emerge from the Beat Generation of poets."
Description
Ginsberg read on Monday, October 4th, 1982 at 8:00 p.m. in the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building and with Gordon Ball on Tuesday, October 5th, 1982 at 2:00 p.m. in Web University Center.
Recommended Citation
Ginsberg, Allen, "Allen Ginsberg, 5th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1982). 5th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 4-7, 1982. 9.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1982/9
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