Allen Ginsberg would’ve been 100 years old last week. The era-defining Newark poet-revolutionary was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20^th Century. His landmark 1959 spoken-word album Howl and Other Poems will be re-released September 4 on green vinyl by Craft Recordings.

In 1974, Newark poet Allen Ginsberg [1926-1997] had his groundbreaking The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 published by City Lights Bookstore. The poet had originally recited these poems into a reel-to-reel tape recorder given to him by Bob Dylan. In 2020, Michael Schumaker, who previously chronicled the rise of beat culture (precursor to hippie culture), transcribed, edited and annotated those original tapes for the University of Minnesota Press so that The Fall Of America: Journals could bring to light Ginsberg’s comments, reflections, dreams and reactions to his own poetry.