The Poetry Project Newsletter, Number 22, February 1, 1975

Contains a mention of William S. Burroughs at the New Year's Day reading: "William Burroughs ignored the pushy TIME photographer, plunged grim-faced through a sardonic text about institutionalized genocide."

Also contains a reference to Burroughs in a notice of the publishing of James Grauerholz'  "Rusty Jack".

Also contains a Summer "School of Spontaneous Poetics" at Naropa Institute, noting Burroughs as faculty.

Published in New York City by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in February 1975.

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

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19750201TPPN.0.22

Contents:

• Ted Berrigan: "Baltic Stanzas" (poetry)
• Notices:
• First women's basketball game at Madison Square Garden
• Grant from the Axe Houghton Foundation
• The Wednesday night calendar including: Douglas Woolf on February 5; Reed Whittemore on February 12; Hannah Weiner and The Black Tarantula (Kathy Acker) on February 19; Alice Notley and Anne Waldman on February 26; Robert Bly on March 5
• The New Year's Day readings, including Burroughs
• On Rochelle Owens' "The Karl Marx Play" presented in Calcutta
• On trouble at Erica Jong's reading at the Smithsonian
• On Helen Adam's Selected Poems & Ballads
• Rudy Burckhardt films at the Parish Hall
• Regina Beck giving piano lessons
• On George Butterick's Olson: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives, number 2
• On the marriage between Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach
• On Anne Waldman's Fast Speaking Woman
• Britt Wilkie returns from Nepal
• On Diane di Prima's Freddie Poems
• Maxine Groffsky, literary agent
• About John Perreault in The Serif: Quarterly of the Kent State University Libraries
• On Aram Saroyan on "The Joe Franklin Show"
• On Gilbert Sorrentino's Flawless Play Restored
• On Rochelle Owens' The Joe 82 Creation Poems
• Sale of 150' of Gordon Matta-Clark scroll drawings
• On the CIA in Peace & War
• 24 drawings by Gordon Baldwin at Shepherd Gallery
• On James Grauerholz' Rusty Jack
• ink and acrylic paintings by Henri Michux at Lefebre Gallery
• job opportunity
• Readings by Ted Berrigan, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, and Gerard Malanga at Gotham Book Mart
• the opera "A Letter for Queen Victoria" at Byrd Hoffman School
• Robert Ashley at The Kitchen
• Workshops at St. Mark's
• Bernadette Mayer reading at the Book Gallery
• Hart Book Shop plug
• International symposium on ethnopoetics at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Sandy Berrigan review of "Alice's Show"
• Kenneth King teaching dance classes
• "The Portae" and art by Rosemary Meyer at the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center
• Performance by The Natural History of the American Dancer at St. Mark's
• Bill Zavatsky lecture on Surrealism and poetry at Maison Francaise
• "High Jolly" by David Garvin at Theatre Genesis
• Joe Brainard's I Remember performed as a ballet by Louis Falco Company
• Monday night performances led by Ed Friedman
• Naropa Institute's "School of Spontaneous Poetics" Summer program including Burroughs, Ginsberg, Waldman, Berrigam, di Prima, Sanders, Whalen.
• John Wieners and John Ratti reading at Donnell Library Center
• On basketball, Anne Waldman and Bernadette Meyer
• On John Marron's Bad Breath next issue
• On the Codrescus stay in NYC
• recommendations

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay