Article: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S 'HOWL' MARKED AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE

The City University of New York issued the following news release:

Brooklyn College will be hosting a program commemorating the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem "Howl" on October 31st in the Library's Woody Tanger Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. Ginsberg taught poetry for eighteen years in the English Department at Brooklyn College, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor at the time of his death in 1997. "Howl" was first performed on October 7, 1955, at the famous Six Gallery in San Francisco. In the fall of 1956 it was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who ran City Lights Bookstore and the City Lights Press. It is noted for relating stories and experiences of ...

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