The Spero, Volume 1, Number 1, 1965

Burroughs contributes “The Coldspring News” as an insert.

Published in Flint, MI. by Fenian Head Centre Press in 1965.

This copy formerly in the collection of Darin Scope (UK), #52 of 500 copied printed.

"The Coldspring News" was later included in the book White Subway.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C124
• Shoaf III.82
• Schottlaender v4.C123
• Raven  19650000TSPE.1.1

Contents: 

• Douglas Casement: 
• editorial
• news
• reviews of Gilbert Sorrentino's Black and White, Edward Dorn's Hands Up, Nan Braymer and Lilian Lowenfeld's Modern Poetry from Spain and Latin America, and Louis Zukofsky's A Test of Poetry
• Tim Reynolds: letter
• Stephen Dawkins: "a letter from your district atterny [sic]" (prose)
• John Sinclair: 
• "Letter 1: To Ed Henry" (poetry)
• "Eric Dolphy: An Impartial Review" (music review)
• Diane di Prima: "Theatre Poem No. 1" (poetry)
• Pat Knop: "Sea Story" (poetry)
• Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin: "The Falling–" (poetry)
• M. Harris: 
• "Naked of Plumes on the Bitter Branch" (poetry)
• "one-night stand" (poetry)
• Gerard Malanga: 
• "Sonnet XLIV" (poetry)
• "Sonnet LXI" (poetry)
• Daisy Aldan: 
• "Flight" (poetry)
• "The Blond Nets (poetry)
• Harriet Zinnes: "Remnant" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Coldspring News" (prose, insert)
• Joseph Cherwinski: "Vieux Carre' Walgreen's" (poetry)
• Timoshenko Yurievitch Markovnik: 
• "untitled (time flies like a lost bird)" (poetry)
• "untitled (when in time not did but should)" (poetry)
• George Tysh: "Bridesounds" (poetry)
• Frank Deffry: "Ponching's Time No. 1" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen: 
• "To a Poet" (poetry)
• "To the Moon" (poetry)
• Piero Heliczer: "Victorian Era" (poetry)
• LeRoi Jones: 
• "Citizen Cain" (poetry)
• "Theory" (poetry)
• Maurice Naughton: "Canary" (poetry)
• Carol Bergé: "My Friend" (poetry)
• Carl Linder: 
• "Fall of the Angel" (prose)
• "Hurricane: A Spectacle for Antonin Artaud" (poetry, insert)
• Paul Goodman: "Gene, John, Jojoy, Jerry" (poetry)
• C. Kwiat:
• "Stopping Place" (poetry)
• "Depression" (poetry)
• "To a Hypocrite" (poetry)
• Clark Kent: collage
• Charles M. A. (Lumpen Hipster): photographs
• Reb Barker: "For Ken Kesey and Thirteen Companions" (poetry)
• George Bowering: "Sally Bowering & The Rooster" (poetry)
• Gary Harmon:
• "We Ride a Train" (poetry)
• "Sensory" (poetry)
• Magdalene Arndt: photograph
• Pat Cosgrove: "I have a love" (poetry)
• Ray Bremser: 
• "who is the sugar in my tea" (poetry)
• "eric, in belvue [sic]" (poetry)
• Bonnie Bremser: 
• "Coke" (poetry)
• on Ray Bremser and legal issues (essay)
• Naomi Bossom: linocuts
• Anselm Hollo:
• "A Rooftop; A Distraction; A Cloud" (poetry)
• "What I know of that country" (poetry)
• Carl Larsen: "Meet Miss Subways" (prose)
• "Buster" Simpson: art
• Ruel E. Foster: "A Good Bootlegger Is Hard To Find" (prose)
• Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin: "March Bells" (poetry)
• Richard Smith: "Antelope on the Plain" (poetry)
• William Wantling: "Letter from Kickapoo (pop. 250)" (poetry)
• Jonathan Williams: "Petite Country Concrete Suite" (concrete poetry, insert)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Douglas Casement
• Support: The Detroit Artists Workshop