The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 17, July 1, 1974

Light on Burroughs, but does note the reprint of The Floating Bear (compiled issues 1-37), with Burroughs inclusion noted.

Published in New York City by The Poery Project at St. Mark's in July, 1974.

This copy addressed to the [Detroit] Alternative Press (Ken Mikolowski), and is part of an archive of issues acquired from Type Punch Matrix (Silver Spring, MD.).

Bibiographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19740701TPPN.0.17

Contents:

• Frank O'Hara: "How poecile..." (poetry)
• News:
• on upcoming readings at The Poetry Project
• on Wednesday night happenings including John Ashbery, Kathy Acker, Ed Dorn, et al
• on the Fall schedule, being planned by Director Anne Waldman
• on the need for an expert typist for Dennis Phillips
• on Michael Brownstein at Cornell University
• on John Wiener's Hotels, published by Angel Hair Books
• on Neil Hackman's Out There, issue 4 with Alice Notley
• on Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky doing "zen carpentry" in Kitkitdizze
• on Yanagi, a mimeographed periodical
• on Bob Wilson relocating the Phoenix Bookshop and publishing Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography
• on upcoming issues of The World
• on George Butternick's Olson: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives
• on St. Mark's and the need for restoration
• on Michael McClure's Organism, included in the Institute of Further Studies "Curriculum of the Soul"
• on Jim Carroll and his new dog "Joe"
• on Alan Davies Occult Witnesses
• on Dick Gallup as Poet-in-Residence for West Virginia
• on The Poetry Project getting a New York State Council on the Arts grant
• on Kenward Elmslie gardening in Vermont
• on the compiled The Floating Bear, which includes McClure, Snyder, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Koch, Waldman, Lamantia, Kerouac, Burroughs, O'Hara, Spicer, Wieners, et al
• on Aram Saroyan looking for a NY place
• on Don Allen working on a collection of Frank O'Hara letters
• on Bill Berkson's Big Sky, issue 7
• on Ron Padgett's Crazy Compositions
• on The Yale Lit, volume 143, number 3
• on Ed Dorn's Bean News
• on Extensions, issue 8
• on Jane DeLynn's "Hoosick Falls" at the Theatre for the New City
• on Barbara Wright heading out to Missouri
• on Pengiun's Modern Poets, number 24, with Kenward Elmslie, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler
• on Anne Waldman, John Giorno, and Bernadette Mayer doing a "poetry event" for Lewistown, New York
• on some funding shortcomings for the Poetry Project
• on Robert Wilson's "A Letter for Queen Victoria" at the Spoleto Festival
• on the Bolinas-based Shelter
• on Spiritual Poetry at Naropa with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Diane di Prima
• on the Burkhardts and Edwin Denby summering in Maine
• on the Jane Forth Fan Club
• on applications for the Fall semester of The New York School of Poetry

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay