Allen Ginsberg
American Beat poet (Howl, 1956). Ginsberg was in the audience defending Mailer when an administrator ordered the curtain down on his 6 February 1961 reading at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. for obscenity (61.3a).
Ginsberg was in the audience when the administrator of the 92nd Street Y ordered the curtain down on Mailer’s 6 February 1961 reading after some of his poems were deemed obscene (61.3a); a New York Times report describes him defending Mailer alongside others in the room.
Stub; to be expanded as later Mailer–Ginsberg crossings are added.