The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 21, January 1, 1975

Light on Burroughs, but there is a mention of Burroughs' contribution in Arthur and Kit Knight's The Beat Book.

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

This copy addressed to the [Detroit] Alternative Press (Ken Mikolowki), acquired as an archive of issues from Type Punch Matrix (Silver Springs, MD.).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19750101TPPN.0.21

Contents: 

• Tony Towle: "For Rachel" (poetry)
• News:
• on Mrs. Mabel Myers of Chapel Allerton and her dowsing
• on upcoming Poetry Project readings, including Paul Mariah & Jackie Curtis, Ted Berrigan & Anselm Hollo, Gerard Malanga, and Gary Snyder
• on Allen Ginsberg raising legal funds for Timothy Leary and also looking for a loft to live in
• on the award of a grant from The Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines
• on patrons and appreciation
• on The Beat Book, by Arthur and Glee [Kit] Knight, which includes Kerouac, Cassady, Corso, McClure, Huncke, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Malanga, Holmes, et al
• on Tom Veitch's Eat This!
• on Edwin Denby's kitty, which needs a home
• on Ron Padgett recommendation of Cecily Mackworth's English Interludes
• on Kenward Elmslie's periodical ZZZ
• on Trevor Winkfield's Nativity published by Z Press South
• on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger's Trip Out & Fall Back
• on Glen Baxter recommendation of Ulrik Neumann's "Ping Pong"
• on a Thursday evening poetry workshop conducted by Fanny Howe
• on Gregory Corso's The Japanese Notebook Ox
• on Michael Brownstein's recommendation of Janine Pommy-Vega's Journal of a Hermit
• on Mulch, issue 5
• on Charles and Paula Norths new offspring
• on an exhibition of artists' toys at the Clocktower
• on The Glass Harp, a play by Kenward Elmslie based on a novel by Truman Capote showing at the Bert Wheeler Theatre
• on a film about Matisse being screened at the YMHA
• on Anne Waldman and Bernadette Mayer talking basketball
• on O'Hara contributions to The American Abstract Tradition
• on Rebecca Brown recommendations to visit the U.S. Government Bookstore and the Brooklyn Bridge
• on James Tate's Hottentot Ossuary
• on Richard Grossinger's The Windy Passage from Nostalgia
• on Gregory Corso living in Provincetown
• on Coldspring Journal, issue 4
• on new releases from Telephone Books by Rebecca Brown, Regina Beck, Susan Howe, Joshua Norton, and Sandy Berrigan
• on Carlos Feliciano in prison
• on Edouard Roditi's Emperor of Midnight
• on Duncan Hines' recommendations
• on Jack Beeson's opera "The Sweet Bye and Bye"
• on Vida Blue as a defendant in a paternity suit
• on an exhibition of photo-booth art by Jed Bark ay Bykert-Downtown
• onMonday night performances in the Parish Hall
• on Lewis Marsh' response to being stopped by the police
• on Walter Hadler's play "The Silver Bee" at Theatre Genesis
• on Ed Friedman seeking a place to rent
• on Bernadette Mayer seeking a two-month roommate
• on weekly workshops at St. Marks
• on the Les Levine at Steafanotty
• on "Cocksucker Blues"
• on Regina Beck's recommendations
• on Ed Baynard's still-lifes at the Vick Gallery
• on the exhibition "Illustrations for Books" at the Carlton Gallery
• on Larry River's exhibition at Marlborough
• on The Washington Post's review of Joe White's show at Jane Haslem's
• on Dore Ashton's A Joseph Cornell Album
• on W. S. Merwin at the Guggenheim
• on a group reading at Artist House
• on Saturday readings at Dr. Generosity's Poetry Pub
• on a reading at the Donnell Library Center
• on Jack Benny's passing

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay