The Insect Trust Gazette was a poetry journal published at Temple University in Philadelphia. Three issues appeared from 1964 - 1968. It was edited by Leonard Belasco, Jed Irwin, Robert Basara, and William Levy. The journal's name was derived from a phrase in

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

' novel

Naked Lunch ''Naked Lunch'' (sometimes ''The Naked Lunch'') is a 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order. The reader follows the narr ...

about a "a trust of giant insects from another galaxy." The editors added "gazette" to it. Burroughs contributed texts to the first two issues. The journal folded in 1968. A folk/jazz/blues group in the late 1960s,

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, took its name from the journal.

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Poetry magazines published in the United States Defunct literary magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1964 Magazines disestablished in 1968 Temple University Magazines published in Philadelphia {{US-lit-mag-stub