print email comment close 50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's Howl URL: http://www.citylights.com/His/CLhowl.html Description: "In 2006, City Lights and poetry lovers ... will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the first publication of 'Howl and Other Poems' by Allen Ginsberg. Beginning in October 2005 and lasting through the fall of 2006, there will be a series of celebrations and commemorative readings." The site includes a history of this poem (first read on October 6, 1955, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco), and a listing of celebrations. From City Lights Books. Publisher: City Lights Books Extra Keywords beat Library of Congress Subject Headings: American poetry -- 20th century Beat generation Censorship Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- Howl LII Database Information: Record 19242 created by Maria Brandt on 10/04/2005 Last modification on 10/05/2005 Published: 10/06/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19242