Jonah Raskin is a co-editor of Caveat Lector, a retired professor of communication, and author of eight poetry chapbooks, including The Thief of Yellow Roses (Regent Press, 2023); American Scream, a study of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl and the birth of the Beat Generation; and other books. He grew up reading the poetry of Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Allen Ginsberg; these days, he’s likely to be reading Emily Dickinson, Anna Akhmatova, and Rainer Maria Rilke.