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 ...

“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 ...

In 1956, it was OK for the best minds of Allen Ginsberg’s generation to be starving and hysterical, but naked? Perhaps not. As for what transpired between Ginsberg’s “angel-headed hipsters” and the ...

Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959. (Soundbite of recording) Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): I saw the best minds of my ...

James Franco gives a career-defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg--- poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the "Beat Generation"in HOWL, the audacious film from Academy Award® ...

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

The annual New Year’s Eve soiree Howl takes its name from Allen Ginsberg’s history-making poem. And event organizer Jessie de la Cruz says that the poem, in which Ginsberg famously laments that ...