dumbfoundry

Back in 1926, Joseph March was the first managing editor of an upstart little magazine called The New Yorker. But he abandoned his job because he wanted to be a poet. His wealthy father indulged him and he spent that summer writing his epic poem, "The Wild Party," a moral tale appropriate for this era.

March’s witty poem was long, considered a "verse novel," and when it came out in 1928, it was considered too hot to publish, and the first edition was banned in Boston. It was March’s poem that inspired William Burroughs to become a writer.

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