Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time.

Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation, a term he himself created. Kerouac enjoyed some degree of popular appeal but little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, however, he is considered an important and influential author.

"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since the 1970s, he has frequently been described as the 'laureate of Deep Ecology'. From the 1950s on, he has published travel-journals and essays from time to time. His work in his various roles reflects his immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature.

Bob Kaufman (April 18, 1925 - January 12, 1986), born Robert Garnell Kaufman in New Orleans, Louisiana, was an American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the "American Rimbaud."

Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history.

Jack Micheline (born November 6, 1929 in the Bronx, New York; died February 27, 1998 in San Francisco, California) was a Bay Area painter and poet. His name is synonymous with street artists, underground writers, and "outlaw" poets. One of San Francisco's original Beat poets, he was an innovative artist who was active in the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s.

Lord Buckley (b. Richard Myrle Buckley, April 5, 1906 Tuolumne, CA; d. November 12, 1960 New York City) was an eccentric, joyous American monologist.

Ken Nordine (born April 13, 1920) is an American voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of "Word Jazz" albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. One critic wrote that "you may not know Ken Nordine by name or face, but you'll almost certainly recognize his voice." The son of an architect, Ken Nordine was born in Cherokee, Iowa.

Rod McKuen (born April 29, 1933) is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Elmer Bernstein (pronounced "Bern-steen") (April 4, 1922 - August 18, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. Bernstein was born in New York City. During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor and won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, …

Michael Horovitz (born 1935) is an English poet, artist and translator. Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz is best known for his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi. In 1959 he founded the "New Departures" magazine while still a student, publishing William Burroughs and Samuel Beckett.

William Pryor (born January 1945) is a British writer. Pryor was born in Farnborough in 1945, to Mark Pryor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sophie Raverat, daughter of Jacques Raverat and his wife Gwen (nee Darwin) (granddaughter of Charles Darwin). William Pryor became a beat poet, dadaist and heroin addict under the influence of Alexander Trocchi. In 1975 he became a serial entrepreneur, starting the Airlift Book Company and The Green Catalogue.

Dick McBride (b.1928) is a beat poet and novelist. Born in Indiana he moved to San Francisco where he worked as the store manager at the City Lights Bookstore, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. In 1969, McBride moved to the UK, and then during the 1980s he moved on to Australia. In 1998, McBride returned to the and back to the UK and settled in Colwall, Herefordshire, where he continues to write and perform.

Robert "Bob" McFadden (19 January 1923 - 7 January 2000) was a singer and voiceover actor best known for his many contributions to animated cartoons. His best known characters were Milton the Monster, Cool McCool, and the ThunderCats' Snarf. In cereal commercials, he played Franken Berry and others. McFadden was born in East Liverpool, Ohio and was in the United States Navy in World War II when he got his start as a singer and impressionist.

Babs Gonzales (b. Lee Brown in Newark, NJ, October 27, 1919; d. January 23, 1980) was an American jazz vocalist of the bebop era most notable for penning the famous Dizzy Gillespie song "Oop-Pop-A-Da", which was originally recorded and performed by his own band "Three Bips and a Bop". Babs was also once the chauffeur for Errol Flynn. Gonzales was known to be an exponent of vocalese, …

Su Byron (born August 19 1956) is an American neo-beat poet and photographer. Byron was a member of punk/new wave band The Young Hemorrhage, which performed in New York City from 1980 to 1984. Her books of poetry include "Spilling Beer", "Flagging Down the Angels", "Are We Free to Say Anything?", "Notes From a Woman Soon to be Divorced", "Fire Burns Less Than This", and "This is What Jesus Told Me".

I like to think of myself as a hipster know it all.

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i never go on mypace anymore..i'm a fun time and i love my life.

My middle initial is the letter "L." It stands for "Lasser" which is a family name that has been in my family since the 11th century, according to my late grandmother. I'm pretty sure that's a lie though, just like how my great grandfather Lasser was in the party of rebels that killed the Tzar and his family in Russia at the turn of the century.

"Work keeps away three great evils: boredom, vice, and need."--Voltaire.

Azz-man --.

Pwning the enemy who trespasses on to my territory.

I'm a rock and roller with one foot in my grave.

I am a young man who lives in the United Kingdom.

My name is Stefanie, I have ten fingers and ten toes.

Ageless, Beat Poet, Travelled Everywhere, but live in NY because it is where the worlds come together.