![]() ![]() He was a little nervous, but after a few lines of the poem, he began to chant the words like a preacher, and the audience began to cheer at the end of every line. He had never given a public reading before, but he wanted to read the poem out loud before people read it in a book, so he organized a reading with five other poets at a converted auto-repair shop in downtown San Francisco called the Six Gallery. On this day, October 7th, in 1955, poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem “ Howl” for the first time at a poetry reading at Six Gallery in San Francisco. 196 | October 7, 2007Īnniversary Edition, #3 In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of ON THE ROAD Burroughs - on the rooftop of his Lower East Side apartment, between Avenues B and C, in the Fall of 1953. Allen Ginsberg - as photographed by William S. ![]()
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