Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," published in 1956, is being celebrated this year in readings, panel discussions and literary events around the world. The poem stirred the literary world and influenced ...

Practically the first thing Allen Ginsberg did when he hit San Francisco was to seek out poet Kenneth Rexroth, whose Friday night literary salons were legendary. "What's happening? Who's ...

Allen Ginsberg's Beat poem "Howl" was cited for obscenity laws in the 1950s but has since been venerated for its artistry -- a lesson that can be learned today by those who are banning art with ...

Beat poet Allen Ginsberg first read his famous poem "Howl" in 1955 in San Francisco, but he was first recorded reading it on Valentine's Day 1956 in a dorm hall at Portland's Reed College. The ...

The authorities tried to suppress Ginsberg’s legendary verse. Instead, they ended up giving it—and the entire countercultural movement it helped spawn—a totem and rallying cry.

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 ...

The first recorded reading of Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl," from Reed College in 1956, will be released, thanks to an Omnivore/Reed connection.

If the birth of the Beat generation could be traced back to one event, it would probably be the first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" 45 years ago this month at the now-defunct Six ...

Allen Ginsberg at his typewriter, date unknown. (Courtesy Allen Ginsberg Estate) But at a time when the far right has tried to co-opt the free speech movement, Sax admires the ways “Howl” continues to ...

An interesting combination of courtroom drama, historical recreation and animated poetry, "Howl" is reverent enough about Allen Ginsberg that it doesn't even try to bring him to life on celluloid ...