Burlington Snow
Title
Burlington Snow
Subject
Counterculture
Description
Roz Payne was long-time friends with Allen Ginsberg. During a visit to Burlington for a reading at the Maverick Bookstore in 1986, he composed this poem about the city and its recently elected socialist mayor, Bernie Sanders. Ginsberg left the poem with Payne.
Creator
Allen Ginsberg
Source
Roz Payne
Publisher
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
February 21, 1986
Format
handwritten
Type
poem
Original Format
paper
Citation
Allen Ginsberg, “Burlington Snow,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed March 16, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/496.