& includes readings from Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Jackie Curtis, Frank O’Hara, Maureen Owen, Taylor Mead, Tony Towle, Jack Spicer, Peter Orlovsky, Michael Brownstein, Jackson MacLow, Taylor Meade, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Jack Spicer, William Carlos Williams, Erica Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Jerome Rothenberg, & Ken Kesey. #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #johngiorno #amiribaraka #maureenowen #annewaldman #jackiecurtis #jacksonmacklow #MichaelMcClure #joannekyger #sylviaPlath #johnGiorno #edSanders #bukowski #charlesBukowski #williamcarloswilliams #dialapoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #taylormead (at Manhattan, New York)

There was a time a Guy could ride a Harley and not call himself a Biker. #Petercoyote

#johngiorno @giornofoundation @annewaldman #johncage #allenginsberg #jackiecurtis #eddorn #williamsburroughs  #peterrolovsky #CharlesBukowski #kenkesey #taylormeade #michaelmcclure (at The Bowery)

bring food to share. Bring flowers, beads, costumes, feathers, bells, cymbals, Flags

The first celebrated reading of “Howl”, Part I only, at 6 Gallery, October 7, 1955, wasn’t taped,  so Prof. Tom Parkinson, member of Rexroth’s old Buddhist anarchist circle, organized another reading at Berkeley’s little Town Hall Theater festooned with Chinese ink brush orgy drawings by Robert LaVigne-- a couple hundred people crowded in, a mixture of artists from San Francisco, poetry aficionados, friends of Robert Duncan, ladies from the Potrero District, North Beach Bohemians, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cassady, Ann charters, and an amazing group of poets on stage including Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, with Kenneth Rexroth as Master of Ceremonies. Five months after the 6 Gallery reading I’d finished Parts II and III of “Howl”. This added a huge dimension, extending the power of the poem into the Moloch section and beyond. And this was the first time I’d read “Howl” all the way through aloud, beginning to end, as well as “Sunflower Sutra”, “A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley” and “America,” further experiments with the long breath’d verse line.

65 years ago tonight was Allen’s legendary first ever reading of “Howl” at the 6 Gallery, in San Francisco.  Located at 3119 Fillmore, a few blocks south of Lombard Street,  in Cow Hollow, San Francisco, the Six gallery so named, as it was opened and run by Six artists,  Wallace Hedrick and Jack Spicer among them.  The evening, billed as 6 poets at the 6 gallery,  was emceed by poet Kenneth Rexroth, the father of the San Francisco poetry renaissance, and poets performing were the Michal McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen and of course Allen Ginsberg. All except Rexroth were virtually unknown at the time.  Jack Kerouac was in the audience cheering them on, and immortalized it in the Dharma Bums,  and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, just recently part owner of the new City Lights books,  was there too, and  approached Allen after with “I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career. Where’s the manuscript?”  Remarkably both Gary Snyder, & Lawrence Ferlinghetti are still alive.

Michael McClure, with Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan,  and in other shots, Julius Orlovsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Allen’d arranged for Larry Keenan Jr, and Dale Smith to take their photo in the alleyway behind City Lights books for possible use on the cover of Dylan’s blonde on Blonde.”   This was 1965, almost exactly 10 years after Allen and McClure had met while organizing the famous Six Gallery Poetry reading that launched both their careers (photos: Larry Keenan Jr, & Dale Smith)  •  #michaelmcclure #larrykeenanjr #dalesmith #bobdylan #allenginsberg #juliusorlovksy #citylightsbooks #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights (at Jack Kerouac Alley) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2eXQMBsoy/?igshid=475n8nchu5xz