New York City
The HOWL! Festival
The week-long annual HOWL! Festival, produced every August by the Federation of East Village Artists, celebrates the neighborhood’s role as the cradle of counterculture. It brings to the bars, clubs, galleries, parks, streets, and theaters of the Lower East Side an explosion of dance, film, food, music, performance, painting, poetry, sculpture, and theater.
The Bowery Poetry Club plays host to the festival’s literary and poetic events.