Allen Ginsberg would have turned 100 this month, and his own voice reading "Howl" is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A “lost” recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his then-fresh epic poem “Howl” in 1956 will be released for the first time in April, ...

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 ...

Available for over a year “Probably the single greatest influence on the American poetical voice since Whitman.” So said Bob Dylan of Allen Ginsberg. To mark the centenary of ...

Allen Ginsberg said in a 1985 interview that "Howl" began with another poem. Ginsberg, who had studied at Columbia University, sent a poem called "Dream Record, 1955" to poet and essayist Kenneth ...

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 ...

In 2007, author John Suiter was digging through the archives at Reed College's Hauser Memorial Library when he uncovered a rare treasure: a reel-to-reel tape of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg giving a ...

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, angel-headed hipsters burning for ...

We've heard a little bit about Howl, the film about the 1957 obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem, but this is our first look at anyone in it. James Franco stars as ...

“I don’t really know if I’ve got the energy,” Allen Ginsberg admits. But a moment later he launches in: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging ...

The Beat goes on, and on, and the romance associated with the post-war / pre-hippie writers of the '50s continues to obsess and intrigue. Although much Beat Generation writing has lost its critical ...