![]() Unfortunately, no one thought to record this historic moment. Poet Kenneth Rexroth was the emcee Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady were in the audience. Along with Ginsberg, the evening included readings by Gary Snyder ’51, Philip Whalen ’51, Philip Lamantia, and Michael McClure. ![]() Its first public reading took place at San Francisco’s famous Six Gallery in October, 1955. “Every few years, a new generation rediscovers it-and gets turned on by it.” Pancho Savery, professor of English and Humanities at Reed. “This poem is really important,” says Prof. “Howl” is widely regarded as a seminal literary work with a profound influence on the Beat Generation and the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() The raw, powerful, first-known recording of one of the most influential American poems of the late 20th century-Allen Ginsberg’s ”Howl”-will soon be available to the public, 65 years after Ginsberg read it before an awestruck audience at Reed College. Photo courtesy of USU Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.” Allen Ginsberg voiced the mood of the Beat Generation with his epic poem “Howl.” ![]()
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