For nearly 60 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder has combined an environmental awareness shaped by America’s Far West with a Zen Buddhist perspective that celebrates and reveres the natural world.

This is my tribute to the great Ginsberg, whom I interviewed at length before his death. The subject was him but necessarily included major leitmotifs including Buddhism, activism, psychedelics, the Beats, being gay and being Jewish and being a mystic and gentle outlaw, much beloved.. (all this in addition to his poetry, per se). Give a listen! (Full interview below this post)