Sasha Vasilyuk (@sashavasilyuk.bsky.social)

The Forgotten Poet at the Center of San Francisco’s Longest Obscenity Trial Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.” https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-forgotten-poet-at-the-center-of-san-franciscos-longest-obscenity-trial