On this day in 1955..

[gridlore]

Allen Ginsberg first gave a performance of Howl at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

So, what's your favorite modern poem?