Editing Allen Ginsberg (section)

===Continuing literary activity===
[[File:Allen Ginsberg und Peter Orlowski ArM.jpg|thumb|250px|Ginsberg with his partner, poet [[Peter Orlovsky]]. Photo taken in 1978]]
Though the term "Beat" is most accurately applied to Ginsberg and his closest friends (Corso, Orlovsky, Kerouac, Burroughs, etc.), the term "Beat Generation" has become associated with many of the other poets Ginsberg met and became friends with in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A key feature of this term seems to be a friendship with Ginsberg. Friendship with Kerouac or Burroughs might also apply, but both writers later strove to disassociate themselves from the name "[[Beat Generation]]." Part of their dissatisfaction with the term came from the mistaken identification of Ginsberg as the leader. Ginsberg never claimed to be the leader of a movement. He claimed that many of the writers with whom he had become friends in this period shared many of the same intentions and themes. Some of these friends include: [[David Amram]], [[Bob Kaufman]]; [[Diane di Prima]]; [[Jim Cohn]]; poets associated with the [[Black Mountain College]] such as [[Charles Olson]], [[Robert Creeley]], and [[Denise Levertov]]; poets associated with the [[New York School (art)|New York School]] such as [[Frank O'Hara]] and [[Kenneth Koch]]. LeRoi Jones before he became [[Amiri Baraka]], who, after reading "Howl", wrote a letter to Ginsberg on a sheet of toilet paper. Baraka's independent publishing house Totem Press published Ginsberg's early work.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amiri Baraka papers, 1945–2015 |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6909686/ |access-date=October 10, 2020 |website=www.columbia.edu |quote=Baraka's Totem Press: published early works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other Beat and Downtown experimental writers. |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319042505/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6909686/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{additional citation needed|date=August 2024}} Through a party organized by Baraka, Ginsberg was introduced to [[Langston Hughes]] while [[Ornette Coleman]] played saxophone.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harrison |first=K. C. |year=2014 |title=LeRoi Jones's Radio and the Literary "Break" from Ellison to Burroughs |journal=African American Review |volume=47 |issue=2/3 |pages=357–74 |doi=10.1353/afa.2014.0042 |jstor=24589759 |s2cid=160151597}}</ref>

[[File:Ginsberg-dylan.jpg|thumb|250px|Portrait with [[Bob Dylan]], taken in 1975]]
Later in his life, Ginsberg formed a bridge between the [[Beat Generation|beat movement]] of the 1950s and the [[hippie]]s of the 1960s, befriending, among others, [[Timothy Leary]], [[Ken Kesey]], [[Hunter S. Thompson]], and [[Bob Dylan]]. Ginsberg gave his last public reading at [[Booksmith]], a bookstore in the [[Haight-Ashbury]] neighborhood of San Francisco, a few months before his death.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140634/http://fora.tv/2008/10/23/Bill_Morgan_The_Letters_of_Allen_Ginsberg Bill Morgan: The Letters of Allen Ginsberg]}}. Video at fora.tv. October 23, 2008.</ref> In 1993, Ginsberg visited the [[University of Maine at Orono]] to pay homage to the 90-year-old great [[Carl Rakosi]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=PERLOFF |first=MARJORIE |year=2013 |title=Allen Ginsberg |journal=Poetry |volume=202 |issue=4 |pages=351–53 |jstor=23561794}}</ref>