An interesting combination of courtroom drama, historical recreation and animated poetry, "Howl" is reverent enough about Allen Ginsberg that it doesn't even try to bring him to life on celluloid. The ...

"I have been seeing big Berkeley professors,” wrote Allen Ginsberg in a 1955 letter to friend and fellow beatnik Jack Kerouac, “but I am anonymous nobody and can impress no one with nothing.” When ...

As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg's game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasibiographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem “Howl” is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasi-biographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob ...

It was the poem that defined a generation. "Howl," the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed ...

Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959. (Soundbite of recording) Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): I saw the best minds of my ...