Ginsberg at 100: Selections from the Allen Ginsberg Papers at Stanford
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Stanford University Libraries presents Ginsberg at 100: Selections from the Allen Ginsberg Papers at Stanford, on view in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda of the Cecil H. Green Library from June 5 to September 5, 2026. In honor of the centenary of Allen Ginsberg’s birth on June 3, 1926, Stanford University Libraries will host its first-ever exhibition of Ginsberg, exploring his complex legacy as a poet, activist, promoter, traveler, spiritual seeker, and teacher. The exhibition will draw upon the extensive array of notebooks, diaries, manuscripts, photos, and other items from the Allen Ginsberg Papers, a collection acquired by the Department of Special Collections at Stanford in 1995. Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl for Carl Solomon” launched the Beat Generation to fame and notoriety upon its publication in Howl and Other Poems by City Lights Books in 1956. Following an infamous obscenity trial in San Francisco, Ginsberg embraced his role as a free speech advocate and deftly mana
