Oct. 9th, 2007

sylvar: (PUTV: Dirty thought in a nice clean mind)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/opinion/08mon4.html

...It is with a queasy feeling of history in retreat that poetry lovers discover that WBAI, long the radio flagship of cocky resistance to government excess, decided last week that it couldn’t risk a 50th anniversary broadcast of the late poet’s recording of “Howl.” The station retreated out of fear that the Federal Communications Commission would levy large obscenity fines that might bankrupt the small-budget station...

And here's the poem, from http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/howl.txt:

'Howl', by Allen Ginsberg )

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