Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl,“ (Big Table Chicago Reading, 1959)

In 1959, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky accompanied Ginsberg to Chicago for a benefit reading for “Big Table“ [named at Kerouac’s suggestion], a newly established literary publication born as a result of censorship of the student magazine the Chicago Review. The reading took place on 29 January, 1959. Full poem: Audio courtesy of public archives: