Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg, with Jeanette Seaver, wife of Richard Seaver, Genet’s editor at Grove Press, Chicago Democratic Convention, August 28, 1968. Esquire Magazine had commissioned him and Allen along with Terry Southern and William S Burroughs to cover the 1968 Democratic Convention. Genet, a last minute replacement for Samuel Beckett, was refused a visa for the trip because of his ‘criminal record’ and had to sneak across the border from Canada. (photo: unknown / Ginsberg Collection, Stanford University) #jeangenet #allenginsberg #1968democraticconvention #writers #frenchwriters #beatgeneration #flowerpower #ourladyoftheflowers #queer #gay #poetrycommunity #poets (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPLsA4Hhzm_/?utm_medium=tumblr