@dizgraceland.bsky.socialPoet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" at a poetry reading in San Francisco on this day in 1955. #AllenGinsberg
I think D.H. Lawrence Beat him to it. #DizgracelandDizigns #NetArt #GraphicTees
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@johnautry.bsky.socialOctober 6, 1955 - Poet Allen Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" for the first time at Six Gallery in San Francisco. The poem was an immediate success that rocked the Beat literary world and set the tone for confessional poetry of the 1960s and later.
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@woodstockwhisperer.bsky.socialOctober 3, 1957: at the conclusion of the obscenity trial regarding #Howl and Other Poems, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene. #AllenGinsberg
@jckaelin.bsky.social#JCKaelin: Try as he might to seduce me at a 1988 Princeton poetry reading, he didn't, because... well... I ain't gay! 🤪
#OTD #TDIH #October3, 1957: #Howl by #AllenGinsberg ruled #NotObscene by #CaliforniaStateSuperiorCourt. #Poetry #Beats #BeatGeneration #Counterculture #PoetrySky
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"I'm with you in Rockland..."
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 3 October 1957, in a much-publicized landmark case, California Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that #AllenGinsberg’s poem "Howl" was not obscene; adding that it had “redeeming social importance.”
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@johnokillens.bsky.social“Today, supposedly sophisticated moderns have laundered Moloch’s dark faith into militarism, imperialism, and capitalism.
— #AllenGinsberg
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@gpwriter.bsky.socialA fascist and oligarchs
conspiring
stealing
away
the years and years
we toiled
cutting our safety nets...
setting fire to our futures...
Leaving We The People out in the cold again
Somewhere #WoodyGuthrie is turning in his grave
and #AllenGinsberg is howling from the heavens
#poetry #booksky
@gpwriter.bsky.socialA fascist and oligarchs
conspiring
stealing
away
the years and years
we toiled
cutting our safety nets...
setting fire to our futures...
Leaving We The People out in the cold again
Somewhere #WoodyGuthrie is turning in his grave
and #AllenGinsberg is howling from the heavens
#poetry #booksky
@wectar.comWe're all golden sunflowers inside. — Allen Ginsberg
@whooya.bsky.social@gpwriter.bsky.socialA fascist and oligarchs
conspiring
stealing
away
the years and years
we toiled
cutting our safety nets...
setting fire to our futures...
Leaving We The People out in the cold again
Somewhere #WoodyGuthrie is turning in his grave
and #AllenGinsberg is howling from the heavens
#poetry #booksky