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 ...

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 ...

Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem "Howl," is the subject of a new film that stars James Franco as the legendary beat poet. "Howl" directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman say they chose Franco for the ...

“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 ...

“Howl” A fragmented look at the impact of Allen Ginsberg’s epic Beat poem “Howl,” arranged around scenes of the work’s first public reading and the 1957 obscenity trial that resulted from its ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, an unpublished 28-year-old American poet came into the United States at Mexicali dreaming of literary glory. His name was Allen Ginsberg, and after traveling from New York to Havana ...