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 interesting?

" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix…" Capturing the spirit of Allen ...

Fifty years after its publication by City Lights in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" still manages to provoke a diverse array of reactions from the reading public. Ridicule is common, as is ...

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 ...

It's 60 years since Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem Howl was first published. Chris Bond looks back at its impact and the cultural legacy it created. In October 1955, a group of largely unknown ...

When poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti heard Howl in 1955, he sent a telegram to Alan Ginsberg. "I greet you at the beginning of a great career," he wrote. (He was borrowing from what he ...

As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg's game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasibiographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

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 ...

First, customs officials seized a crate full of the contraband at the San Francisco port. But that didn’t solve the problem. Some of the banned product had already gotten through and was being ...

‘Howl,â? the infamous Beat-era poem by Allen Ginsberg, turns 50 this year. The anniversary has already led to the inevitable tribute readings and gassy lionizations. Happily, it has also flushed out a ...