Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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[REBROADCAST FROM June 26, 2026] The prominent beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg (youtube.com/watch?v=x-P2fILsLH8) would have turned 100 this past June. To commemorate his birthday during Pride Month, we speak with writer Ira Silverberg, and reflect on his legacy as a pioneering gay, Jewish, and socialist writer and iconoclast. Plus we hear from listeners about their favorite Ginsberg poems.  



Photo by Neil Libbert/Getty Images: Allen Ginsberg, Poet, Writer, Greenwich Village, New York City 1964.