Allen Ginsberg (#3) & David Hockney (#1): Photographic Triptych.

Artist David Hockney and poet Allen Ginsberg discussing photography. At Naropa in Boulder, Colorado. July 1989.

Allen Ginsberg (#2): Poetic Portrait.

The late poet Allen Ginsberg sitting for a photo. Boulder, Colorado. 1991. Hard to believe he's been dead for a decade, now. Boulder doesn't seem quite the same to me anymore without his annual summer readings there.

I spent the weekend watching the extras included on the two-DVD set of Jerry Aronson's documentary on the writer, The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg. I was mightily impressed by how Ginsberg approached his own imminent death, phoning his best friends, finding joy in the midst of the inevitable.

Here are excerpts from an interview I conducted with Ginsberg.

Om, poet. Om.

Allen Ginsberg (#1): In Poetic Hands.

The late poet, promoter of literature, activist, and Beat Generation icon, Allen Ginsberg reading from his work at Naropa in Boulder, CO.