[Max Goodman]

(Carlo Gesualdo is no longer able to benefit from any popularity of his music, which IMO makes his music a different sort of issue.)

Nesset's crimes were "possessing, receiving and distributing child sexual abuse images." Those are serious offenses, making the abuse of children profitable. They're not, though, the same as directly abusing children.

Most of us live lifestyles that make profitable abuses we try hard not to know about.

The harm caused by a person convicted of those crimes could fall anywhere on a broad spectrum, depending--among other things--on the number of victims (we know he possessed a lot of these images), the type of abuse, and the amount of influence (if any) on that abuse that was exercised by the distributor of the images. (Regarding influence: hiring someone to create images is different than, say, finding them on the internet and passing them on to friends with similar interests.)

Without knowing anything more than we know, I don't see harm in publishing or reading Nessett's poetry.