Beat poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg was born this day in 1926 in Newark , NJ.
To celebrate Allen's birthday, today's Kerouaction is to visit Poets.org and read his most famous poem, "Howl." Then, read some poems by others who he influenced or vice versa: William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov.
That should keep you quite busy.
Happy Birthday, Allen!
Only four days after Whitman's, separated by a century.
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