The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 10, December 1, 1973

On the second page is a news item that “The William Burroughs Archives are up for sale.” This is prior to the sale of those archives to Roberto Altmann in Liechtenstein.

Published in New York City by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's in December, 1973.

This from the [Detroit] Alternative Press (Ken Mikolowski) archive of Poetry Project Newsletters.

As a note, this is the first issue of the Newsletter to include poems amongst the usual news.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in M&M
• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19731201TPPN.0.10

Contents:

• Ron W. Padgett: "Out on a Limb" (poetry)
• news:
• on Bertha, an opera by Ned Rorem based on a Kenneth Koch play, performed at Alice Tully Hall
• on an upcoming issue 29 of The World
• on Ghost Dance, issue 17
• on upcoming Poetry Project readings, including Lewis MacAdams, Carolee Schneeman, Ginsberg, others
• on the Saroyan's new progeny
• on the 1972 winner of the Frank O'Hara Award, John Koethe's Domes
• on a Monday Night performance with Paul Brown, Mike Mandel, and Jim Rader, among others [which include an early Patti Smith reading]
• on Alice Notley's Incidentals in the Day World
• on Mulberry, issue 3
• on Jim Harrison's Letters to Yesenin, published by Sumac Press
• on William S. Burroughs' Archives being up for sale
• on Gallimaufry, issue 2
• on Trevor Winkfield coming to New York for a six-month stay
• on a Mark Strand translation of Rafael Alberti's The Owl's Insomnia
• on Grey Fox Press releases, including Trip Trap: Haiku Along the Road from San Francisco to New York 1959 by Kerouac and Albert Saijo
• on Adventures in Poetry releases from Maureen Owen and Fielding Dawson
• on Edwin Denby releases
• on Michael McClure's The Book of Joanna
• on McClure plays ay St. Mark's Theatre Genesis
• on a group reading in honor of a Jim Brodley no-show at St. Marks
• on a seven-act opera/dance by Robert Wilson entitled The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin
• on Dick Higgins leaving Something Else Press
• on The Ant's Forefoot, issue 11
• on the Black Sparrow Press release of Fielding Dawson's The Sun Rises Into the Sky
• on John Perreault's Out of this World anthology
• on Barry Alpert's Vort, issue 3 and 4
• on Maxine Groffsky resigning from The Paris Review

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay