Insect Trust Gazette
Template:Italic title Template:Use mdy dates The Insect Trust Gazette was a poetry journal published at Temple University in Philadelphia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Three issues appeared from 1964 - 1968. It was edited by Leonard Belasco, Jed Irwin, Robert Basara, and William Levy.<ref name=udl>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The journal's name was derived from a phrase in William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch about a "a trust of giant insects from another galaxy." The editors added "gazette" to it.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Burroughs contributed texts to the first two issues. The journal folded in 1968.
A folk/jazz/blues group in the late 1960s, The Insect Trust, took its name from the journal. An urban legend known as "John Fare" originated from a story called "The Hand" by N.B. Shein, published in a 1968 volume.<ref name="shein1968">Shein, N.B. (1968). The Hand. Insect Trust Gazette, No. 3, pp. 1-4.</ref><ref name="Boston1970">Boston, Richard (1970). The Press We Deserve, p. 127. Routledge & K. Paul, Template:ISBN</ref>