MEMOIRS, TRIBUTES & BIOGRAPHIES:

• AllenGinsberg.org, the new official site by the Ginsberg Trust, has a biography & Flash timeline, extensive bibliography / videography / discography, and a beautiful library of texts to browse.
  
  
• Mongo Bear Wolf’s site, Allen Ginsberg: Shadow Changes Into Bone, aims to be the clearinghouse for everything Ginsberg on the Net: poems, photos, interviews, parodies, reviews, memories. It includes his collection of Ginsberg tributes.
  
  
• “Allen Ginsberg’s Secret,” from Slate is an extraordinary piece of literary gossip revealed.
  
  
• The Bard His Own Self: Allen Ginsberg says “That’s all good night” is our own memoir, written by Bob Holman & posted the week he died.
  
  
• “The Last Poet” by Herbert Gold appeared in Salon.
  
  
• “Allen Ginsberg in Hell’s Kitchen” by Michael Ventura is from the Austin Chronicle.
  
  
• Here’s ginzy.com’s account of Allen’s funeral at Shambhala in New York.
  
  
• The San Francisco Chronicle gave us the story of the memorial service held at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.
  
  
• “Ginsberg Remembered” is from PBS NewsHour.
  
  
• Literary Kicks’ memorial is an extract from the BEAT-L mailing list.
  
  
• Naropa Institute posted a memorial page.
  
  
• “Goodbye, Buddha Poet” is the farewell posted at patti smith babelogue.
  
  
• GuestPad also posted a Web memorial.
  
  

GINSBERG’s WORK ONLINE:

• The first place to look online for poem texts, audio & video clips, photographs, manuscripts & art by Allen Ginsberg is the vast library at AllenGinsberg.org.
  
  
• Levi Asher quotes liberally from “Howl” & “Kaddish” in his essays at Literary Kicks.
  
  
• “Personals Ad” is in The United States of Poetry.
  
  
• “Scrap Leaves” (his handwritten 1968 manuscript) is in hypertext at Steve Silberman’s site.
  
  

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