The Poetry Project Newsletter, Number 15, May 1, 1974

Includes a brief write-up about an April 24th, 1974 event with Burroughs and John Giorno at St. Mark's: "No one was disappointed. Living legend Burroughs, Seated behind a tandem of microphones, jacket, vest, tie, impeccable, inscrutable, deadpan; then a sudden procession of voices." 

Includes an entry on Gay Sunshine, mentioning an interview with William S. Burroughs.

Published in New York City by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's in May, 1974.

This copy addressed to Frontier Press publisher Harvey Brown, acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

I also have a copy addressed to the [Detroit] Alternative Press (Ken Mikolowski), of their archive of Poetry Project Newsletters, acquired from Type Punch Matrix (Silver Springs, MD.).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19740501TPPN.0.15

Contents:

• Aram Saroyan: "A Letter to the New York School"
• News:
• on William S. Burroughs and John Giorno at St. Mark's
• on upcoming events at St. Mark's
• on the Poetry Project Hotline
• on Mary Carey's Cholla, issue 1
• on Tractor, issue 5
• on an ask from Steve Carey and Jim Brodey for submissions for Reach for the Sky
• on Bill Zavatsky's anthology Roy Rogers
• on the Spring issue of Gay Sunshine, with Giorno and an interview with William S. Burroughs
• on readings at the West End Bar
• on "How Music Works", aired on WBAI
• on Kenward Elmslie's City Junket
• on the April 25th issue of Rolling Stone, with a full-page poem by Aram Saroyan
• on the list of CAPS fellows
• on readings at Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire
• on The World, issue 29
• on Barbara Baracks' second issue of Big Deal
• on Robert Bly's Point Reyes Poems
• on the Fall/Winter issue of Parnassus: Poetry in Review
• on Joan Mitchell's show at the Whitney
• on Larry Fagin's Rhymes of a Jerk
• on Charles Olson's Additional Prose
• on E. F. Bleiler's anthology Eight Dime Novels
• on John Godfrey and Bernadette Mayer worksops at the Poetry Project
• on Ed Fridman's series of Monday night performances in Parrish Hall
• on a Clark Coolidge lecture on "The Speliological Maintains"
• on Donnie Brooke Alderson stand-up comedy in the workshop room
• on Allen Kaplan's The English Military Cemetery
• on Clark Coolidge at the Paula Cooper Gallery
• on Anne Waldman in the Scottish press
• on Philip Guston's solo exhibition in Boston
• on Bernadette Mayer reading at the Philadelphia YMCA
• a public statement on modern politics and the publishing of Allen Ginsberg's Fall of America
• on Peter Schjeldahl and Donnie Brooke Alderson's wedding

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay