The Six Gallery reading (also known as the Gallery Six reading or Six Angels in the Same Performance) was an important poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955,[1] at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.[2][3]
- ^ Some sources have erroneously reported the date of the reading as October 13. (One example is Hendin, Josephine G. 2004. Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. p. 79. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.) However, most scholars agree on the date October 7, as does the plaque honoring the event, pictured here. (The date is confirmed in Morgan, Bill and Nancy L. Peters, eds. 2006. Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression. p. 1. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers; and Raskin, Jonah. 2006. American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation. p. 154. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.)
- ^ In 1954, Wally Hedrick co-founded The Six Gallery in San Francisco, California with David Simpson, Hayward Ellis King, John Allen Ryan, Deborah Remington and Jack Spicer – and by 1955, had "become the official director". ("Oral history interview with Wally Hedrick", Smithsonian Archives of American Art. The transcribed interview took place at Hedrick's home in San Geronimo, California, June 10, 1974; Interviewer: Paul Karlstrom https://archive.today/20121214235927/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/hedric74.htm [accessed November 24, 2014]. In "Remembering Wally Hedrick", artist and professor Carlos Villa writes, "Wally Hedrick was a chief organizer of the Six Gallery..."[1] (accessed November 25, 2014). The Six Gallery functioned as an underground art gallery for the members and a meeting place for poets and literati alike.
- ^ "Fillmore: The Beats in the Western Addition - FoundSF".