Martin Cid Magazine

Allen Ginsberg, the poet whose Howl beat an obscenity trial and fills concert halls in his centenary year

Seventy years after City Lights published Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg’s centenary is filling concert halls, ...
The Daily Beast

Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ Shows Why Book Bans Are So Futile

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The authorities tried to suppress Ginsberg’s legendary verse. Instead, they ended up giving it—and the entire countercultural movement it helped spawn—a totem ...

'Revolutionary in form and content': How the obscenity trial against 1950s poem Howl reshaped US free speech

Allan Ginsberg's graphic verse had a seismic effect on American society. When two people were put on trial for selling it, ...
The Portland Mercury

The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later

Fifty years after its publication by City Lights in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” still manages to provoke a diverse array of reactions from the reading public. Ridicule is common, as is ...
Orlando Sentinel

Commentary: Revisiting Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in a new era of book-banning

The Orlando Sentinel recently reported on more than 600 books banned in Orange County schools and libraries in response to Florida’s HB 1069, HB 1557, and new rules adopted by county and state ...