History: On October 7, 1955, Alan Ginsberg read "Howl" (Howl for Carl Solomon) publicly for the first time at '6 Gallery' in San Francisco, and blew the lid off post-WW2 American poetry. Shown here at a reading in SF the following month. [800x812]

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