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On April 20, New York’s 92nd Street Y was set to host a centennial reading for Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet whose work helped make the venue’s Unterberg Poetry Center famous.
It never happened.
Two of the biggest names on the bill, Lucy Sante and Anne Waldman, pulled out after learning of the storied New York institution’s record on Palestine, leaving 92NY with no choice but to cancel it altogether. For weeks afterward, a ghost of the event lingered on the 92Y’s website – photos, a description, no date, no ticket link – as though the reading had quietly taken place after all.
