Not everything published in samizdat had political overtones. In 1963, Joseph Brodsky was charged with "social parasitism" and convicted for being nothing but a poet. His poems circulated in samizdat, with only four judged as suitable for official Soviet anthologies. In the mid-1960s an unofficial literary group known as SMOG (a word meaning variously "one was able", "I did it", etc.; as an acronym the name also bore a range of interpretations) issued an almanac titled "The Sphinxes" ("Sfinksy") and collections of prose and poetry. Some of their writings were close to the Russian avant-garde of the 1910s and 1920s.