The Poetry Project Newsletter, Issue 26, June 1, 1975

Includes news on the Poetics School at Naropa reconvening, with a planned reading by William S. Burroughs on June 11.

Maureen Owen's poem “In June” at the end of this issue has a very broad dedication which includes “Bill [Burroughs] and Claude [Pélieu]”.

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

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19750601TPPN.0.26

Contents:

• Maureen Owen: "In June" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: partial lyrics from "CIA Dope Calypso"
• news:
• on Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky at St. Mark's
• on Jonathan Cott's City of Earthly Love
• on Allen Ginsberg's suggestion that people read the May 30th issue of New Times
• on Jackson Mac Low reading in London
• on Pat Jones' W.B. 1 periodical
• on Gerlad Ford warring in Cambodia
• on Asa Benveniste's Listen
• on Steve Raven's Time/Art show at St. Mark's, reported by Mary Stewart
• on help needed for the Poetry Project lending library
• on Coldspring Journal issue 6
• on Noho Gallery readings
• on jazz at 5 Spot, NYC
• on Adventures in Poetry publishing Tony Towle's Lines for the New Year: Poems 1963-65
• on Loka: A Journal from the Naropa Institute
• on readings at the Poetics School at the Naropa Institute, including Burroughs, Whalen, Ginsberg, di Prima, et al
• on a broadcast of Edwin Denby poetry in Australia
• on the Teachers & Writers Collaborative publication Spicy Meatball
• on Vorts issues 7 and 8
• on voice lessons by Mushka Kochan
• on new publications from Two & Two Press
• on the periodical Monday
• on Elias Wilentz of the Eighth Street Bookshop being appointed to be part of the NY Arts Commission
• on the Ramapo Poetry Festival in New Jersey
• on scholarship into Lucia Zarate
• on Bill Berkson's 100 Women
• on Monday night readings at the Church
• on Alexander Theroux's Three Wogs
• on "20,000 Words" at the 112 Greene Street Gallery
• on Out There, issue 7
• on Murray Mednick's play "The Black Hole in Space"
• on Bill Duke's Sonata
• on Keith Waldrop's The Garden of Effort
• on a benefit reading for the periodical Indigena, in Berkeley
• on Joyce Carol Oates' The Seduction & Other Stories
• on Clark Coolidge's poetry in Thie issue 6
• on Philip Hacket and the Laguna Poets third international poetry festival in Laguna Beach, CA.
• on the Small Press Book Fair at the Customs House in Battery Park
• on the new issue of Alcheringa: Ethnopoetics
• on Ralston Farina at the Idea Warehouse
• on West End
• on the Ithaca Press reprint of Charles E. Jarvis' Visions of Kerouac
• on Duncan Hines' music recommendations
• on Arawana Hayashi and the City Dance Theater of Boston performing at the Church
• on Larry Fagin appearing on ABC-TV
• on Ken Kesey's reading at the Church
• on Carol Turoff & Company performing in Cleveland
• on free concerts at the Third Street Music School Settlement
• on Allen Ginsberg appearing on NBC-TV's "Speaking Freely" with Edwin Newman
• on Ron Padgett broadcast on WBAI
• birthday wishes

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Bill Mac Kay