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Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads.

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
—Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)
Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

(Source: mimeomimeo.blogspot.com)

Postcard from Aya Tarlow to David Meltzer.

If you come across one of these, let me know. NY: The Poetry Project, 1981. Double LP record (WR 1/2). Sleeve design by Rudy Burckhardt and Ron Padgett. Recordings from the Tape Archive of live performances of poets and writers at the Poetry Project, edited by Bill Berkson and Bob Rosenthal. Includes contributions from Ted Berrigan; Alice Notley; Clark Coolidge; Anne Waldman; Ed Sanders; Ray Bremser; Charles Reznikoff; Kenneth Koch & Allen Ginsberg; Robert Creeley; Amiri Baraka; Ron Padgett; Bernadette Mayer; Joe Brainard; Joanne Kyger; Tom Clark; John Wieners; John Ashbery; and others. 

If you come across one of these, let me know.

NY: The Poetry Project, 1981. Double LP record (WR 1/2). Sleeve design by Rudy Burckhardt and Ron Padgett. Recordings from the Tape Archive of live performances of poets and writers at the Poetry Project, edited by Bill Berkson and Bob Rosenthal. Includes contributions from Ted Berrigan; Alice Notley; Clark Coolidge; Anne Waldman; Ed Sanders; Ray Bremser; Charles Reznikoff; Kenneth Koch & Allen Ginsberg; Robert Creeley; Amiri Baraka; Ron Padgett; Bernadette Mayer; Joe Brainard; Joanne Kyger; Tom Clark; John Wieners; John Ashbery; and others. 

momalibrary:

Some pages from an issue of Geiger (1967-1977) - an assembling magazine of concrete and visual poetry. -ds

(inspired by Heather Christle.)

(inspired by Heather Christle.)