“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….” So begins one of the most famous poems of the Beat literary movement: Allen Ginsberg’s epic, “Howl.” Written ...

James Franco gives a career-defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg--- poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the "Beat Generation"in HOWL, the audacious film from Academy Award® ...

In 1956, it was OK for the best minds of Allen Ginsberg’s generation to be starving and hysterical, but naked? Perhaps not. As for what transpired between Ginsberg’s “angel-headed hipsters” and the ...

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 ...

Back in July amidst a storm of pre-Milk James Franco news, we reported that the current graduate student was set to star as the lead in Howl, an Allen Ginsberg biopic named after the late poet's best ...

It’s interesting to see, two generations after Allen Ginsberg came on the scene with “Howl,” that his “party poem,” as we called it back then, is hailed as “original” by an academic writing yet ...