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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poet Allen Ginsberg, a Beat Generation icon, championed authenticity and one of his quotes urges embracing one's true self, ...

Around 30 adults held a press conference in Weiser, Idaho, last Monday to announce their dissatisfaction with the school district’s response to a creative writing teacher’s introduction of a work of ...

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 ...

It’s interesting to see, two generations after Allen Ginsberg came on the scene with “Howl,” that his “party poem,” as we called it back then, is hailed as “original” by an academic writing yet ...

This April, Omnivore Recordings will release a recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his epic poem "Howl" at Portland's Reed College—the earliest known to exist. For five decades, it was believed that ...

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 ...