09/10/2026
By Michael Millner
Please join the university's Kerouac Center in celebrating the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, who was born 100 years ago.
- What: A community reading of work by, about or otherwise connected to Ginsberg
- When: Thursday, Sept. 17, 4 p.m.
- Where: Kerouac Park, 93 Bridge St., Lowell, Mass.
Please email michael_millner@uml.edu if you would like to read.
Ginsberg was among the most innovative and transformative artists of the 20th century.
Here are the first lines of his poem "Howl:"
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,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo
in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and
high sat up smoking in the supernatural
darkness of cold-water flats floating
across the tops of cities contemplating
jazz . . .
We look forward to seeing you there.