The first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" took place at San Francisco's Six Gallery in October 1955, but that performance wasn't recorded. It was long believed that the first recorded reading was in March 1956 in Berkeley, California, but that turned out not to be the case. On February 13 and 14, 1956, Ginsberg and Gary Snyder read at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. In 2007, author John Suiter made a remarkable discovery at Reed's Hauser Memorial Library: the Valentine's Day