Mark Mobley Performs "Howl"

Friday, August 25, Flicker Theatre & Bar

originally published August 23, 2006

Athens writer and performer Mark Mobley will mark the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" with a performance this Friday at Flicker, and then later that night he'll DJ Latin night at Go Bar.

The versatile Mobley will start off his Flicker set ($5, doors open at 8:30 p.m., show over by 10:30 p.m. for those of you around when "Howl" debuted) with other Ginsberg work and poems by other Beat writers. He'll include influences such as Whitman, Lorca and William Carlos Williams and read some of his own work. He'll also recount some of the early "Howl" history from 1955–56. After a short intermission, Mobley will read "Howl" in its entirety. If this doesn't sound like a good time to you, you are hopelessly square and wouldn't know a dweeb from a doobie. But wait, you can head on over to Go Bar, where, beginning around 11 p.m. (no cover) the same Mark Mobley will DJ, starting with vintage salsa, cumbia and calypso and getting progressively more modern and louder as the night progresses.

Pete McCommons

Pete McCommons