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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American poet Allen Ginsberg poses in a bookstore on June 2, 1959. (Joe Rosenthal/S.F. Chronicle) Since the moment Allen Ginsberg ...

Centennial launch: San Francisco hosts the first in a series of national events marking Allen Ginsberg’s 100th birthday and 70 years since 'Howl' was published. Star-studded tributes: Performers ...