January 23, 1967, Cleveland Press

Public officials from the Supreme Court have stumbled over obscenity laws in the U. S. in recent years. Now it appears to be the County Grand Jury’s turn. This imposing body has indicted d. a . levy, lowercase poet, and James Lowell, operator of a downtown book shop, for circulating obscene literature.

Grand Jury should perhaps concern itself with purveyors of hard-core pornography – filth for filth’s sake. But this is not the category that the work of poet levy falls under. While most of us may object to the use of four-letter words, the Supreme Court has been careful to point out that such words do not, in themselves, constitute pornography. Let the Grand Jury pursue, instead, the big smut peddlers.