THE DAILY BEAT: On this date in Beat history

Friday, March 25, 2022

On this date in Beat history

65 years ago today -- on March 25, 1957 -- this happened: https://allenginsberg.org/2017/03/instigating-howl-trial-march-25-1957/.

What does that have to do with Kerouac, you ask? Well, Ginsberg was a central Beat character and friend of Jack's. That's a sufficient connection for our purposes.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I've always loved the photo of the cadets at VMI reading Howl, here's the back story:

https://allenginsberg.org/2016/02/fridays-weekly-round-up-257/

RM; March 26, 2022 at 8:57 AM

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