Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Snyder da Whalen, tare da Michael McClure, sun kasance daga cikin mawallafin da suka yi a shahararren karatun shayari na Six Gallery
wanda Kenneth Rexroth ya shirya a San Francisco a ranar 13 ga Oktoba (ko Oktoba 7, kafofin sun bambanta), 1955. Wannan karatun ya nuna cikakkiyar fitowar San Francisco Renaissance a cikin tunanin jama'a kuma ya taimaka wajen kafa sunan birnin a matsayin cibiyar ayyukan adawa da suka zo da cikakken fure a lokacin shekarun hippie na shekarun 1960. Wani ɗan gajeren labari na wannan taron ya zama babi na biyu na littafin Jack Kerouac na 1958 "The Dharma Bums". A cikin asusun, ya bayyana shahararren karatun Allen Ginsberg na waƙarsa "Howl". Kerouac da Ginsberg sun halarci karatun tare da wasu abokansu mawaƙa.