HOWL / When Allen Ginsberg hurled his shattering poem at a San Francisco audience in 1955, it proved to be the depth charge that started the Beat movement By Heidi Benson , Chronicle Staff Writer ...

A `Howl' That Still Echoes / Ginsberg poem recalled. By Paul Iorio, Chronicle Staff Writer Oct 28, 2000. If the birth of the Beat generation could be traced back to one event, it would probably be ...

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 ...

Hear a recording of Allen Ginsberg reciting his poem "Howl" in January 1959 in Chicago on "Howl Against Censorship" in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco court decision ...

That would be the sale of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s famed bookshop, City Lights. That’s right—the persona non grata in San Francisco in 1957 was a ...

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

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Ginsberg might’ve responded by saying, as he did in a 1986 essay included here, that when San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore published “Howl” 50 years ago, changing America was part of ...

"Howl" is split three ways, skipping between each segment: Ginsberg's first public reading at the smoky Six Gallery in 1955 San Francisco, presented in black-and-white; an interview with the poet ...