Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem.
`` A Supermarket in California '' is a poem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956 . Allen Ginsberg . `` Howl '' reflected Ginsberg 's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men , including Peter Orlovsky , his lifelong partner . His poem `` September on Jessore Road , '' calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees , exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg 's tireless persistence in protesting against `` imperial politics , and persecution of the powerless . '' `` Howl '' is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955 , published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems , and dedicated to Carl Solomon .