Six Gallery reading

The Six Gallery reading (also known as Gallery Six reading or Six Angels on the Same Performance) was a poetry jamming, which occured in the Six Gallery of San Francisco on October 13, 1955. It became the first greater manifestation of the Beat Generation and heralded what was to become known as the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Jamming - Six Gallery - San Francisco - October 13 - 1955 - Beat Generation - San Francisco Renaissance

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Many new talented authors who were known only in a close range of friends and artists (like Lionel Trilling or William Carlos Williams) presented and published here their young works. The whole show was prepared by Kenneth Rexroth. The group has become a starting point for more nowadays famous writers, such as Philip Whalen, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. The latter is said to have once been reading out loud in a drunken state his famous poem Howl in front of an audience, which consisted of a totally drunken Jack Kerouac (who refused reading, just shouted: "Yeh. Go! Go!") and some other youngsters, who made a gorgeous applause in the end, as they were amazed of Ginsberg.

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Lionel Trilling - William Carlos Williams - Kenneth Rexroth - Philip Whalen - Philip Lamantia - Michael McClure - Gary Snyder - Allen Ginsberg - Howl - Jack Kerouac

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