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In Case You Didn't Know
ICYDK (In Case You Didn’t Know) Short Biographical notes on the boldly named (compiled by Steven Lavoie). Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ first language was French Eugene O’Neill ~ built Tao House near Danville to entertain Charles Chaplin Henry Miller ~ in Paris in the 1930s Kenneth Rexroth ~ MC at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955 Herb Caen ~ coined words using Russian endings for San Francisco newspapers Allen Ginsberg ~ read “Howl” at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955 Lenny Bruce ~ arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, Oct. 4, 1961 Carol Doda ~ wore Rudi Gernreich’s monokini at the Condor Club William Carlos Williams ~ Allen Ginsberg’s mentor Duncan McNaughton ~ established the Poetics Program at the New College of San Francisco Patrick Marks ~ see text Steve Dickison ~ born in Duluth, Minn. Bill Berkson ~ friend of Frank O’Hara Robert Duncan ~ partner of Jess Jack Spicer ~ co-founder of Six Gallery Helen Adam ~ a Scot Philip Whalen ~ Zen abbot from Oregon Richard Brautigan ~ Aquarius who fished Joanne Kyger ~ born in Vallejo, Calif. Clark Coolidge ~ drummer for Serpent Power Michael McClure ~ read at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955; Libra, from Wichita, Kans. Ginger Rogers ~ movie star Billie Holliday ~ played by Diana Ross in a biopic with Richard Pryor Lester Young ~ from Count Basie’s Orchestra Mal Waldron ~ also played with Charles Mingus Larry Rivers ~ read eulogy at O’Hara’s funeral Philip Guston ~ birth name “Goldstein,” born in Montreal, first language was French Alice Neel ~ Aquarius, portrait painter black-listed as a communist Jean Dubuffet ~ French painter, wine seller Joe Brainard ~ grew up in Tulsa, Okla. -
235-Newsletter.Pdf
The Poetry Project Newsletter Editor: Paul Foster Johnson Design: Lewis Rawlings Distribution: Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 The Poetry Project, Ltd. Staff Artistic Director: Stacy Szymaszek Program Coordinator: Arlo Quint Program Assistant: Nicole Wallace Monday Night Coordinator: Simone White Monday Night Talk Series Coordinator: Corrine Fitzpatrick Wednesday Night Coordinator: Stacy Szymaszek Friday Night Coordinator: Matt Longabucco Sound Technician: David Vogen Videographer: Andrea Cruz Bookkeeper: Lezlie Hall Archivist: Will Edmiston Box Office: Aria Boutet, Courtney Frederick, Gabriella Mattis Interns/Volunteers: Mel Elberg, Phoebe Lifton, Jasmine An, Davy Knittle, Olivia Grayson, Catherine Vail, Kate Nichols, Jim Behrle, Douglas Rothschild Volunteer Development Committee Members: Stephanie Gray, Susan Landers Board of Directors: Gillian McCain (President), John S. Hall (Vice-President), Jonathan Morrill (Treasurer), Jo Ann Wasserman (Secretary), Carol Overby, Camille Rankine, Kimberly Lyons, Todd Colby, Ted Greenwald, Erica Hunt, Elinor Nauen, Evelyn Reilly and Edwin Torres Friends Committee: Brooke Alexander, Dianne Benson, Will Creeley, Raymond Foye, Michael Friedman, Steve Hamilton, Bob Holman, Viki Hudspith, Siri Hustvedt, Yvonne Jacquette, Patricia Spears Jones, Eileen Myles, Greg Masters, Ron Padgett, Paul Slovak, Michel de Konkoly Thege, Anne Waldman, Hal Willner, John Yau Funders: The Poetry Project’s programs and publications are made possible, in part, with public funds from The National Endowment for the Arts. The Poetry Project’s programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Poetry Project’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. -
Lee Harwood the INDEPENDENT, 5TH VERSION., Aug 14Odt
' Poet and climber, Lee Harwood is a pivotal figure in what’s still termed the British Poetry Revival. He published widely since 1963, gaining awards and readers here and in America. His name evokes pioneering publishers of the last half-century. His translations of poet Tristan Tzara were published in diverse editions. Harwood enjoyed a wide acquaintance among the poets of California, New York and England. His poetry was hailed by writers as diverse as Peter Ackroyd, Anne Stevenson, Edward Dorn and Paul Auster . Lee Harwood was born months before World War II in Leicester. An only child to parents Wilfred and Grace, he lived in Chertsey. He survived a German air raid, his bedroom window blown in across his bed one night as he slept. His grandmother Pansy helped raise him from the next street while his young maths teacher father served in the war and on to 1947 in Africa. She and Grace's father inspired in Lee a passion for stories. Delicate, gentle, candid and attentive - Lee called his poetry stories. Iain Sinclair described him as 'full-lipped, fine-featured : clear (blue) eyes set on a horizon we can't bring into focus. Harwood's work, from whatever era, is youthful and optimistic: open.' Lee met Jenny Goodgame, in the English class above him at Queen Mary College, London in 1958. They married in 1961. They published single issues of Night Scene, Night Train, Soho and Horde. Lee’s first home was Brick Lane in Aldgate East, then Stepney where their son Blake was born. He wrote 'Cable Street', a prose collage of location and anti fascist testimonial. -
Philip Whalen Papers, Circa 1923-2002 (Bulk 1960-1997)
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2199q0t9 Online items available Finding Aid to the Philip Whalen Papers, circa 1923-2002 (bulk 1960-1997) Processed by Dean Smith. The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ © 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid to the Philip Whalen BANC MSS 2000/93 p 1 Papers, circa 1923-2002 (bulk 1960-1997) Finding Aid to the Philip Whalen Papers, circa 1923-2002 (bulk 1960-1997) Collection number: BANC MSS 2000/93 p The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Finding Aid Author(s): Processed by Dean Smith. Date Completed: 2002 June Finding Aid Encoded By: GenX © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Philip Whalen papers Date (inclusive): circa 1923-2002 Date (bulk): 1960-1997 Collection Number: BANC MSS 2000/93 p Creator: Whalen, Philip Extent: 2 cartons, 36 boxes, 11 oversize folders, 3 oversize boxes, and 1 tubecirca 30 linear feet4 digital objects (5 images) Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Abstract: The Philip Whalen Papers, circa 1940-2001, consist of the writings (notebooks, poems, prose works), correspondence, professional papers, artwork and personal papers that detail Whalen’s dual life as poet (coming to prominence during San Francisco’s Beat era of the 50’s and often associated with his fellow Reed graduates, Gary Snyder and Lew Welch), and later, Buddhist monk. -
LANGUAGE POETRY Entry for the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2005)
Craig Dworkin: LANGUAGE POETRY Entry for The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2005) The discrepancy between the number of people who hold an opinion about Language Poetry and those who have actually read Language Poetry is perhaps greater than for any other literary phenomenon of the later twentieth century. For just one concrete indicator of this gap, a primer on "The Poetry Pantheon" in The New York Times Magazine (19 February, 1995) listed Paul Hoover, Ann Lauterbach, and Leslie Scalapino as the most representative “Language Poets” — a curious choice given that neither Hoover nor Lauterbach appears in any of the defining publications of Language Poetry, and that Scalapino, though certainly associated with Language Poetry, was hardly a central figure. Indeed, only a quarter-century after the phrase was first used, it has often come to serve as an umbrella term for any kind of self-consciously "postmodern" poetry or to mean no more than some vaguely imagined stylistic characteristics — parataxis, dryly apodictic abstractions, elliptical modes of disjunction — even when they appear in works that would actually seem to be fundamentally opposed to the radical poetics that had originally given such notoriety to the name “Language Poetry” in the first place. The term "language poetry" may have first been used by Bruce Andrews, in correspondence from the early 1970s, to distinguish poets such as Vito Hannibal Acconci, Carl Andre, Clark Coolidge, and Jackson Mac Low, whose writing challenged the vatic aspirations of “deep image” poetry. In the tradition of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofksy, such poetry found precedents in only the most anomalous contemporary writing, such as John Ashbery's The Tennis Court Oath, Aram Saroyan's Cofee Coffe, Joseph Ceravolo's Fits of Dawn, or Jack Kerouac's Old Angel Midnight. -
September 2006 Updrafts
Chaparral from the updrafts California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. serving California poets for over 65 years Volume 67, No. 6 • September, 2006 President Michael Palmer wins Stevens Award James Shuman, PSJ The Academy of American Poets announced September 5 that Michael Palmer has First Vice President been selected as the recipient of the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award. The $100,000 prize David Lapierre, PCR recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Second Vice President The judges for the award were poets Robert Hass, which was short-listed for the Canadian Griffi n Poetry Katharine Wilson, RF Fanny Howe, Susan Stewart, Arthur Sze, and Dean Prize; Codes Appearing: Poems 1979–1988 (2001); Th ird Vice President Young. Robert Hass, on selecting Palmer to receive The Promises of Glass (2000); The Lion Bridge: Se- Dan Saucedo, Tw the award, wrote: Fourth Vice President lected Poems 1972–1995 (1998); At Passages (1996); Michael Palmer is the foremost experimental poet Donna Honeycutt, Ap Sun (1988); First Figure (1984); Notes for Echo Lake of his generation and perhaps of the last several Treasurer (1981); Without Music (1977); The Circular Gates generations. A gorgeous writer who has taken Roberta Bearden, PSJ (1974); and Blake’s Newton (1972). He is also the cues from Wallace Stevens, the Black Mountain Recording Secretary author of a prose work, The Danish Notebook (Avec poets, John Ashbery, contemporary French poets, Lee Collins, Tw Books, 1999). the poetics of Octavio Paz, and from language Corresponding Secretary Palmer’s work, which is both alluringly lyrical and poetries. He is one of the most original craftsmen Dorothy Marshall, Tw intensely avant-garde, has inspired a wide range of at work in English at the present time. -
Imc Robert Creeley
^IMC ROBERT CREELEY: A WRITING BIOGRAPHY AND INVENTORY by GERALDINE MARY NOVIK B.A., University of British Columbia, 1966 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of English We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standard THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA February, 1973 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by the Head of my Department or by his representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Department of ENGLISH The University of British Columbia Vancouver 8, Canada Date February 7, 1973 ABSTRACT Now, in 1973, it is possible to say that Robert Creeley is a major American poet. The Inventory of works by and about Creeley which comprises more than half of this dissertation documents the publication process that brought him to this stature. The companion Writing Biography establishes Creeley additionally as the key impulse in the new American writing movement that found its first outlet in Origin, Black Mountain Review, Divers Books, Jargon Books, and other alternative little magazines and presses in the fifties. After the second world war a new generation of writers began to define themselves in opposition to the New Criticism and academic poetry then prevalent and in support of Pound and Williams, and as these writers started to appear in tentative little magazines a further definition took place. -
A Serial Biography)1 Tom Raworth's Logbook (1976
1 Logbook: Against Prose ‘What I want is a kaleidoscope, not a telescope’ (A Serial Biography)1 Tom Raworth’s Logbook (1976) is one of the most stylistically original and mentally acrobatic examples of a fugitive genre in twentieth-century British poetry: the prose poem sequence. Even within Raworth’s own, formally various oeuvre, prose poetry is a relative rarity. There are a handful of other pieces to be found in the five-hundred-plus pages of his Collected Poems (2003), including one other sequence, ‘Pretense’ (1979). In 2009, these were joined by There Are Few People Who Put On Any Clothes (starring it), a lost-and-found manuscript from 1972. Logbook itself, according to its final page, was written November–December 1970 in Colchester, England, where Raworth had recently studied Latin American literature and literary translation at the University of Essex. The previous year saw the publication of A Serial Biography, a fragmentary memoir of incisive sentences and self-enquiry. In 1971, he would conduct the correspondence with Ed Dorn that became ‘Letters from Yaddo’ (1987). The letters demonstrate his gift for prose as wittily lateral and improvisational as his poems – Marjorie Perloff considers the whole ‘essentially a poetic text’, although the author himself chose to include it in his collected prose, Earn Your Milk (2009). Logbook, ‘Letters from Yaddo’ and ‘Notebook’, a journal-like sequence in verse and prose dated January–February 1971, were intended to be published together in the States as a Frontier Press book called Cancer, but this never materialised, resulting in their chronologically dispersed appearance instead. -
Tom Raworth: Collected Poems
Times Literary Supplement, 30 May 2003 Tom Raworth COLLECTED POEMS 576pp. Carcanet. Paperback £16.95 ISBN 1 85754 624 5 For more than thirty years, Tom Raworth has been literally the Odd Man Out of contemporary British poetry. He is, for example, the “1” in Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet-Journoud’s important French anthology 21 + 1 (Delta 1986)—an anthology that includes twenty-one contemporary American poets and a single British one who seems to fit the more radical American model. The common wisdom is that, as an heir to the aesthetic of Black Mountain, Raworth, whose closest poet-friend was the late Ed Dorn, “belongs” to the U.S., where he has, over the years, held many residencies and lectureships. On his home turf (Raworth lives in Cambridge), the response has been much cooler, although the rare critical essays on his work have been by English academics like John Barrell and Colin McCabe. Carcanet’s new Collected Poems is thus a milestone, a gathering, almost 600 pages in length, of the poet’s distinctive lyric from the early1960s to the present, from epigrams and sonnets to love songs and travel poems, to burlesque and found text, to the long columnar poems like Ace and Writing, to the late verbal-visual texts of Catacoustics. Indeed, since Raworth’s earlier chapbooks, many of them illustrated and designed by the author himself, are now collector’s items, more often that not out of print, the Carcanet volume should be an eye-opener, persuading British readers that they have a lion in their living room, even if an oddly gentle and unassuming one. -
Lee Harwood Obituary. Final Version the INDEPENDENT
Biographer to the poet John Clare, Iain Sinclair was minded of Lee Harwood, 'full-lipped, fine-featured : clear eyes set on a horizon we can't bring into focus. Harwood's work, from whatever era, is youthful and optimistic: open.' Poet. Worker. British Rail guard, Better Books manager, forester, museum attendant, stone mason, exam invigilator, theatre dresser, bus conductor, postal clerk (a GPO letter framed in his bathroom commends Harwood's courage diffusing an armed raid at Western Road Post Office, Hove). Jobs that may appear modest entailed craft and motion, and a circular motion which matched his way of walking in the world with tenderness, and locally up onto the South Downs to see a rare orchid. Lee Harwood was raised during wartime near Weybridge in Chertsey. As a child his bedroom window was blown in by a German bomb exploding nearby. His poetry typified his life. Ascetic, delicate, gentle and candid : attentive and careful. He read English at Queen Mary College, London. Raising a young son Blake with Jenny Goodgame Harwood wrote 'Cable Street', a prose poem of place : Stepney with anti-Fascist testimony. His eye for Surrealism led him, at 24, to seek the Dada poet Tristan Tzara in Paris in 1963. He gained Tzara's blessing for his translations : a commitment which spanned 25 years of publications. The American poet John Ashberry had already lived in Paris for ten years when he met Harwood in 1965. The impact on Harwood's poetry on meeting Ashberry was immediate. Their relationship triggered a lifelong friendship. By 1967 he'd settled in Brighton, then in Hove. -
Small Press Poetry Collection
Small Press Poetry Collection Alphabetical by press UPDATED MARCH 2019 Numbers 20 Pages 1204. Bernstein, Charles and Susan Bee. The nude formalism. Los Angeles: 20 Pages 1989. 811 Books 998. Corless-Smith, Martin. of the Universe The way things are On the Nature of things The Nature of and being by Lucretius: Incorporating marginalia. [Phoenix, Arizona]: 811 Books [1999] A Aard Press 541. Aaboe, Ruth. Zyzh. London: Aard Press 1978. Abbeygate Books 1339. Cooke, David. On the front. Grimsby: Abbeygate Books 2009. 1340. Cooke, David. Bruegel’s dancers. Grimsby: Abbeygate Books 2009. Acadia Press 484. Adam, Helen. Ballads. Illustrated by Jess. New York: Acadia Press 1964. Active in Airtime 1206. Hawkins, Ralph. Pelt. Brightlingsea, Essex: Active in Airtime 2002. 1219. Hawkins, Ralph. Writ. Colchester: Active in Airtime 1993. Actual Size Press 734. Raworth, Tom. Heavy light. New York: Actual Size Press [1984]. 947. Muckle, John and Ian Davidson. It is now as it was then. London: MICA in association with Actual Size 1983. 1228. De Wit, Johan. Rose poems. [London]: Actual Size 1986. Adam McKeown 1375. Intimacy. Edited by Adam McKeown. Maidstone, Kent: Adam McKeown 1992–1998. Volumes 1–3, 5. Adrian Blamires 1358. Blamires, Adrian. Eliza’s entertainments. [Reading: The Author 2015] Adventures in Poetry 100. O’Hara, Frank. Belgrade, November 19, 1963. New York City: Adventures in Poetry [1972 or 1973] 911. Bernheimer, Alan. The Spoonlight Institute. Princeton NJ: Adventures in Poetry 2009. Afterdays Press 1319. Hullah, Paul and Susan Mowatt. Unquenched. [Edinburgh]: Afterdays Press 2002. Aggie Weston’s 201. Mills, Stuart. ‘There is nothing outside the text’. -
Bernadette Mayer Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0199n71x No online items Bernadette Mayer Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2019 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 [email protected] URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html Bernadette Mayer Papers MSS 0420 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Bernadette Mayer Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0420 Physical Description: 30.0 Linear feet(70 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize file folders) Date (inclusive): 1958-2017 Abstract: Papers of Bernadette Mayer, writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Most often associated with the New York School, Mayer uses compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up. Materials include correspondence with writers, artists, publishers, and friends; manuscripts and typescripts; notebooks and loose notes; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera. Scope and Content of Collection The Bernadette Mayer Papers document Mayer's career as a writer and teacher and, to a lesser extent, her career as a publisher and editor. Additionally, the papers reflect the broader community of artists and writers known as the New York School. Materials include correspondence from writers, artists, publishers, and friends; notebooks and loose notes; manuscripts and typescripts of Mayer's works; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera. Accession Processed in 1998 Arranged in eleven series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) NOTEBOOKS, 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 6) TEACHING MATERIAL, 7) EDITING MATERIAL, 8) EPHEMERA, 9) PHOTOGRAPHS, 10) SOUND RECORDINGS, and 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.