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. The term Jamming can refer to several things: Jamming as an electronic warfare (EW) - a technique to limit the effectiveness of an opponents communications and/or detection equipment, like Radio Jamming and Radar Jamming E-Mail Jamming- used by electronic political activists or hackers to disable e-mail systems... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: This is... The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ...

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. Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. ... William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism. ... American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was among the first poets in the United States to explore Japanese poetry traditions such as haiku. ... Philip Whalen (October 20, 1923 – June 26, 2002) was a poet and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat generation. ... Philip Lamantia (b. ... Michael McClure (October 20, 1932) is an American poet and playwright. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation); and an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist who is frequently described as the laureate of Deep Ecology — roles reflecting his studies of both Buddhist... Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco. ... Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books Howl is a poem by Allen Ginsberg that was first performed in 1955 in the Six Gallery in San Francisco. ... Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and one of the most prominent members of the Beat Generation. ...

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• Literary Kicks: Six Gallery
• About "Howl" in Performance]