The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 11, January 1, 1974

Minor Burroughs mention: the inclusion of work by Burroughs in Sixpack, issue 6 (January, 1974), is noted at the fifth page.

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

This copy from the [Detroit] Alternative Press (Ken Mikolowski) archive of Poetry Project Newsletters, acquired from Type Punch Matrix (Silver Spring, MD.)

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19740101TPPN.0.11

Contents:

• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Mountain snow fields" (poetry)
• "Wyoming" (poetry)
• news:
• on financial difficulties at The Poetry Project
• on upcoming readings at St. Marks, including Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, David Amram, Anne Waldman, Patti Smith, others
• on Joel Oppenheimer's On Occasion
• on Barbara Baracks' anthology Big Deal: A Journal of Sloth
• on Arthur and Glee [sic, Kit] Knight's double-issue of The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, focused on Herbert Huncke
• on David Gitin's Guitar Against the Wall
• on Jim Carroll leaving from, and Trevor Winkfield coming to, New York City
• on Mitchell Sisskind's periodical Living Hand
• on Andrei Codrescu's Secret Training
• on "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin" at the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds
• on Anne Waldman, Michael Brownstein, and John Giorno coming back from India
• on an Alex Katz exhibition in Dec, 1973, at Marlborough
• on Jack Anderson and Mary Ferrari reading at St. Marks, followed by Charles Plymell among others
• on Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
• on an exhibition of Rudy Burckhardt paintings at the Green Mountain Gallery
• on Steve Katz' journal-poem Cheyenne River Wild Track
• on a monthly reading series at Paula Cooper Gallery, including Larry Fagin, Dick Gallup, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, among others.
• on the Palm Casino Christmas Show at St. Marks, featuring Jackie Curtis as Santa Claus, Anne Waldman as the Virgin Mary, Maureen Own as Autumn, Jim Carroll as a shepherd, and Joe Brainard reading.
• on recent publications from The Great Outdoor Press
• on Jackson MacLow looking for a place to live and work
• on the launch issue of The Painted Bride Quarterly
• on Simon "Wild Man" Schuchat's Blue Skies
• on Dick Gallup in Chicago for a reading organized by The Chicago Review
• on the first issue of Translation: A Journal of Criticism & Information
• on James Schuyler's apartment-hunting
• on recent additions to the Burning Deck letterpress pamphlet series
• on writing workshops led by Bernadette Mayer
• on Ed Friedman, publisher of The New Space, and his events at the Parish Hall
• on Sixpack, issue 6, which includes William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Kelly, John Giorno, et al
• on Richard Kostelanetz's anthology Fourth Assembling
• on the 136th birthday of Tom Thumb

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay