Allen Ginsberg said in a 1985 interview that "Howl" began with another poem. Ginsberg, who had studied at Columbia University, sent a poem called "Dream Record, 1955" to poet and essayist Kenneth ...

It was the poem that defined a generation. "Howl," the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed ...

The poem brought down the house. Ginsberg and Rexroth were in tears. "By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a ...

So begins one of the most famous poems of the Beat literary movement: Allen Ginsberg’s epic, “Howl.” Written in the mid-1950s, the poem is dedicated to fellow writer Carl Solomon ...

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of American poet Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” one of the most influential poems of the twentieth century. Very few poems sell over a ...

Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public broadcasting station decided not to air ...

A “lost” recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his then-fresh epic poem “Howl” in 1956 will be released for the first time in April, thanks to a personal connection between Reed College ...

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation. Raskin says the poem was about many things, including sex, drugs, youth, alienation, defiance and transcendence. "People, even if they ...

Now, on April 21, the niche record label Ominvore will release the recording, titled: “Allen Ginsberg at Reed College – The First Recorded Reading of Howl and Other Poems.” Listen to an ...

Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg hitchhiked to Portland ... Suiter knew Snyder and Ginsberg had been at Reed in 1956 and knew Ginsberg had read "Howl." He was looking for proof in the student ...

For years, poet Tenaya Nasser-Frederick avoided "Howl." "I just stayed away from poets like Allen Ginsberg, because they were too popular," Nasser-Frederick says. "I didn’t need to read them.

James Franco gives a career-defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg--- poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the "Beat Generation"in HOWL, the audacious film from Academy ...