The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 12, February 1, 1974

Light on Burroughs. That noted, there is a brief mention of Burroughs at the second page, which mentions the inclusion of Burroughs in the Giorno Poetry Systems double-album The Dial-a-Poem Poets.

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

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19740201TPPN.0.12

Contents:

• Kenward Elmslie: "At the Controls" (poetry)
• News:
• on fundraising for The Poetry Project
• on receiving a grant from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, a NYC Arts Council grant, and private patronage
• on Jerome Rothenberg and George Quasha's America: A Prophecy
• on readings at St. Mark's including Charles Plymell, John Wieners, Gregory Corso, Barbara Guest, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure
• on an exhibition, "Twenty-four Drawings" by Gordon Baldwin
• on John Giorno's return from India, and the availability of the double-album The Dial-a-Poem Poets, which includes Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ashbery, and many others
• on Yvonne Jacquette's solo exhibition at Fischbach Gallery
• on Patti Smith at the Metro and at Max's Kansas City
• on Telephone, issue 9
• on Jennifer Bartlett reading at Paula Cooper Gallery
• on Jack Spicer in Manroot
• on John Seery paintings at André Emmerich Gallery
• on Vort, issue 4
• on Workshop, a journal
• on Anne Waldman and The World, issue 29
• on a Bockris/Wylie interview with Taylor Mead in Drummer, January 22
• on Mark Weiss' first issue of Broadway Boogie
• on The Paris Review's relocation to Manhattan with Michael Benedikt as poetry edito
• on Ed Friedman's Monday night performance schedule
• on ZZ, published by The Poetry Project and edited by Kenward Elmslie
• on a Chile Emergency Exhibition to benefit victims of the Chilean military junta
• on Rochelle Owens' The Karl Marx Play
• on An Anthology of New York Poets, edited by David Shapiro and Ron Padgett
• on "First Farewell to Pablo Neruda" at the Donnell Library Center
• on a benefit reading for The Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization at the Ethical Cultural Society
• on a Saturday afternoon workshop by John Godfrey
• on the upcoming lecture series conducted by Bernadette Mayer
• on Black Sparrow Press releases by Fielding Dawson, Diane Wakoski, Paul Bowles & Mohammed Mrabet, Charles Bukowski, and D. H. Lawrence
• on the Houston Grand Opera premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull
• on the plays City Junket, by Kenward Elmslie, and The Heroes, by John Ashbery, both presented in Houston, at Rice University
• on Ron Padgett's lecture "Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Roussel" at The Museum of Modern Art
• on the special issue of Toothpick
• on a benefit reading at NYU for the Gay Rights Action Coalition
• on Anne Waldman being called one of the world's sexiest women in Womens Wear Daily
• on Bob Wilson looking for a new location for the Phoenix Bookshop
• on the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds future appearance at St. Mark's
• on Lorenzo Thomas at the Ethnic Arts Program of the Black Arts Center in Houston, TX., and the periodical Semasifu Words
• on vintage Rudy Burckhardt films at the Film Forum
• on a Sixpack special Paul Blackburn issue
• on Bernadette Mayer reading with the Charlie Morrow Band at Washington Square Methodist Church
• on Trevor Winkfield seeking an apartment
• on the "European Edition" of Chicago
• on Joel Oppenheimer's The Wrong Season
• on Jonathan Cott's collection Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale & Fantasy
• on Jonathan Cott's He Dreams What is Going on Inside His Head: Ten Years of Writing
• on Mulch, issue 4, and Allen Ginsberg's contribution "The Visions of the Great Rememberer"
• on Hilton Obenzinger's The Day of the Exquisite Poet is Kaput
• about the marriage of Tom Thumb in 1963.

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay