Joffre Stewart
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Joffre Stewart is an American poet, anarchist and pacifist known for his early participation in the early Beat movement. Stewart is based in Chicago; he is mentioned in Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
Stewart's book, Poems and Poetry, was published by the Every Now and Then Publishing Cooperative in 1982. Stewart received a B.A. from Roosevelt University in 1952.
Stewart is known for his anarchist politics, his long time participation in the North American anarchist movement, including his involvement in the IWW and Chicago Area War Resisters Support Group, and was a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF). According to the Wikipedia entry on SRAF, Stewart has been accused of anti-semitism, causing controversy within that organization. Stewart has denied the accusation of anti-semitism.
John Gardner devoted a chapter to Joffre Stewart in the fiction work 'Mikelsson's Ghosts'.
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