id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8935 Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia .html text/html 14849 1681 73 He lived modestly, buying his clothing in second-hand stores and residing in apartments in New York City's East Village.[8] One of his most influential teachers was Tibetan Buddhist Chögyam Trungpa, the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.[9] At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.[10] As a teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues, such as World War II and workers' rights.[19] He published his first poems in the Paterson Morning Call.[20] While in high school, Ginsberg became interested in the works of Walt Whitman, inspired by his teacher's passionate reading.[21] In 1943, Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State College before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson.[18] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8935.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8935.txt