Allen Ginsberg has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 13 April 2014. Songs played include Ballad Of The Lights, First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels and America.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values and the self-destruction of his friends among the beat generation.

Ginsberg's poetry was strongly influenced by modernism, romanticism, the beat and cadence of jazz, early English prose-poetry, his Kagyu Buddhist practice and his Jewish background….