Category Archives: Poetry

Nomad (1959-1962)

Posted on November 10, 2019 by

“Nomad was an avant garde literary magazine that Anthony Linick and Donald Factor (the son of Max Factor, Jr.,) edited and published in Los Angeles between 1959 and 1962. The first issue came out in the winter of 1959. Linick … Continue reading →

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The Moth Poem – Robin Blaser (1963)

Posted on October 25, 2019 by

“The Moth Poem is Robin Blaser’s first book publication, which was preceded by a broadside printed by Auerhahn Press in 1963. I love this chapbook format which is perfect for the serial poem. Spicer’s work of the period published by … Continue reading →

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Edward Dorn – Idaho Out (1965), Geography (1965), The North Atlantic Turbine (1967)

Posted on October 9, 2019 by

“… Donald Allen’s anthology The New American Poetry (1960) included some of [Edward] Dorn’s early poems, but his first book The Newly Fallen was not published until 1961 by Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones)’s Totem Press in New York. Three … Continue reading →

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A Secret Location on the Lower East Side

Posted on September 21, 2019 by

“A library is a living organism. I consider my book collection a beneficial and benevolent version of the Burroughsian virus. The books on my shelves are fluid, mutating, multiplying. After close to twenty years of intense collecting, it has become … Continue reading →

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The Fillmore

Posted on September 17, 2019 by

“The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. Built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall, it became the Fillmore Auditorium in 1954. It is in Western Addition, on the edge of the Fillmore District and … Continue reading →

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Underground newspapers: The social media networks of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on September 15, 2019 by

Published in Detroit from 1965 to 1967, Free Poems Among Friends was one of a large number of literary undergrounds. “The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s transformed American politics, social life, and culture. From civil rights groups, to … Continue reading →

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Hells Angels vs. Allen Ginsberg: The unlikely Vietnam War-era confrontation

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

“It would be an understatement to say the Hells Angels and Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg had differing world views. In the Vietnam War era, those views came into conflict in the Bay Area. A recent trip to The Chronicle’s … Continue reading →

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