It wasn’t as though her parents approved, but then they had never approved of anything she did. Sometimes she wondered which was worse: having no family like Kathy, or having such a one as her own.
On October 7th, this day in 1955, Allen Ginsberg first performed the poem “Howl,” at a poetry reading in Six Gallery, a San Francisco coffee shop. One of the impressed attendees was poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of the City Lights…