It’s interesting to see, two generations after Allen Ginsberg came on the scene with “Howl,” that his “party poem,” as we called it back then, is hailed as “original” by an academic writing yet ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg penned a poem that opened with the now-famous lines: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging ...

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….” So begins one of the most famous poems of the Beat literary movement: Allen Ginsberg’s epic, “Howl.” Written ...

If the opening lines of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" aren't seared into your brain, they will be by the end of this collection of 26 essays compiled by Shinder, a poet (Among Women) who learned much of his ...

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” begins the epic poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that the Beat-era poem was ...

Some time ago I wrote about the history of the event in 1956 at the Town Hall Theater in south Berkeley where Allen Ginsberg delivered the first complete — and first sound-recorded — reading of his ...

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Wild at heart / Vivian Gornick -- Human seraphim: "howl," sex, and holiness / Mark Doty -- "Howl" and hail / Amiri Baraka -- "A lost battalion of platonic conversationalists": "Howl" and the language ...