Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

This event was breaking ground in that there were people who said, 'Let's read in this funky art gallery' and were the opposite of silent. They were ranting and roaring and howling.

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't ? if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art, ... American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation.