While at Columbia, Ginsberg contributed to the Columbia Review literary journal, the Jester humor magazine, won the Woodberry Poetry Prize, served as president of the Philolexian Society (literary and debate group), and joined Boar's Head Society (poetry society). In 1945, he joined the Merchant Marine to earn money to continue his education at Columbia. 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. While in high school, Ginsberg became interested in the works of Walt Whitman, inspired by his teacher's passionate reading. He published his first poems in the Paterson Morning Call. As a teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues, such as World War II and workers' rights.
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