The Poetry Project Newsletter, Number 13, March 1, 1974

This issue notes a date between Allen Ginsberg and Yoko Ono where they visited William S. Burroughs and discussed emptiness.  Additionally a notice of Burroughs lecturing to CCNY students.

"On a date with Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg took her to meet William Burroughs. The evening ended with the trio holding hands & talking about emptiness in New York City. Oh yeah?"

"By the way, Mr. Burroughs is currently, temporarily residing in our fair city & is known to generate thought-transference among CCNY students."

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

This copy, which is addressed to D. D. Ryan (fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar), was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.).

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19740301TPPN.0.13

Contents:

• John Wieners:
• "Survivor" (poetry)
• "8 Verses" (poetry)
• Notices:
• On The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
• On the exhibition "Frank O'Hara, A Poet Among Painters" at the Whitney Museum
• On a contribution received: "in memory of Frank O'Hara"
• The reading calendar at the church: Barbara Guest on March 6; Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure on March 13; Bill Corbett and Fanny Howe on March 20; Tom Clark on March 27
• On a meeting between Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, and William Burroughs
• Burroughs living in NYC and lecturing to CCNY students
• On Jim Harrison's Letters to Yesenin
• Poetry reading series at MoMA
• On Bonnie Bremser's Artista
• The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds performance of "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin" in Sao Paolo
• John Godfrey's Monday evening workshops at the Church
• Bernadette Mayer's Friday lecture series
• On translator and publisher support at The Translation Center in NYC
• On Adventures in Poetry, number 11
• On upcoming Adventures in Poetry published titles
• Tuesday poetry series at the School of Visual Arts, starting with Joe Brainard and John Giorno
• On the "Curriculum of the Soul" series of books, including Ed Sanders' Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
• Paintings by Joe Brainard at the Fischbach
• On the recent issue of Second Coming
• On The Boston Eagle, number 2
• Hannah Wilke exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
• Michael Brownstein reading from Country Cousins at Paula Cooper Gallery
• On Two Charlies, number 3
• Artist donations to the Chile Emergency Exhibition
• Nathan Whiting's Distancing
• Walter Lowenfeld's anthology For Neruda/For Chile
• On Stone Country, by Judy Neeld
• On the pamphlets published by Burning Deck (Providence, RI.)
• Alice Neel exhibition at the Whitney Museum
• On Ruth Krauss' This Breast Gothic
• On Kenward Elmslie's magazine ZZ
• A statement on Soviet writers
• On Gay Sunshine
• Ron Padgett wanting to trade an Art & Literature, number 3 for a number 7
• Fairfield Porter exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Galleries
• Ed Friedman's Monday night reading series

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill MacKay