Allen Ginsberg was first recorded reading Howl at Portland's Reed College
b"The poem Howl, by Allen Ginsberg, is one of the most famous works of the Beat literary movement. He read the poem for the first time in 1955 in San Francisco. But Ginsberg was first RECORDED reading Howl on Valentine\\u2019s Day 1956 at Portland\\u2019s Reed College. The tape recording of the reading was long forgotten, until an author discovered it in a box at Reed in 2007. This month, a restored version of the archival recording was released - including on vinyl - by Omnivore Recordings. Reed's Professor of English and Humanities Pancho Savery, who wrote the record's liner notes, talks more about the significance of the poem and the recording."