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Archive for 11 October 2005

Twenty-Four San Francisco Hours

Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 14:42

Friday night was the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Gallery reading, at which Allen Ginsberg first read his poem ‘Howl‘. The poem was scandalous for its day in several ways, not least of which was its overt homosexuality. LitQuake had an anniversary reading with all sorts of famous San Franciscans, but I couldn’t afford a [...]