Terminated for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem?
A celebrated English teacher shared an Allen Ginsberg poem in an AP class. He's not a teacher anymore.
A celebrated English teacher shared an Allen Ginsberg poem in an AP class. He's not a teacher anymore.
Beat-icon Allen Ginsberg is getting a resurgence of attention, 13 years after his death at the age of 70. A movie based on the story behind Ginsberg's signature poem, HOWL, opens this Friday, September 24. It stars James Franco as the young poet embroiled in a 1957 obscenity trial over the poem, which ended in a landmark win for free [...]