“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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND — A 1956 recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his iconic Beat poem “Howl” has been found at the library of a private college here, and it is apparently the first Ginsberg ever made of the poem ...

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, where the ...

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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 ...

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. Everyone ...

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. The ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

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 ...

Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish: For Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)” is not a great poet’s loudest howl. Ginsberg howled for joy throughout his life and work, the cry of bliss. He howled out of physical ...