Published between 1968 and 1975, Adventures in Poetry was edited by poet Larry Fagin and printed and assembled at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Featured in its pages is writing by many poets associated with the first and second generation of the New York School. Surreal and often playful, the work provides a valuable access point into a vibrant and social community of writers who overlapped both in life and on the page.
Alongside poetry and art, Adventures in Poetry also includes a number of journal, diary, and travelogue entries.
1. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 1, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, March 1968
First edition, side-stapled in printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 70 pages. Cover by Ron Padgett. Illustrations by George Schneeman and Joe Brainard
- Contents:
- Joe Ceravolo – “Night Ocean”
Joe Ceravolo – “Night Swim”
Joe Ceravolo – “Consolation”
Joe Ceravolo – “Panorama”
Joe Ceravolo – “Separation”
Joe Ceravolo – “Forgive Me”
Joe Ceravolo – “Holiday Dinner”
Joe Ceravolo – “Fog”
Joe Ceravolo – “Sleep”
Joe Ceravolo – “Jungle Love”
Joe Ceravolo – “Nothing”
James Schuyler – “Amy Lowell Thoughts”
James Schuyler – “Milk”
Ted Berrigan – “For Tom Veitch”
Dick Gallup – “The Boot-Blacks, A Play in Three Acts”
Anne Waldman – “Economy”
Anne Waldman – “Getting Light”
Ron Padgett – “8 Ball”
Johnny Stanton – “from Mangled Hands”
Tom Clark – “Bijous”
John Giorno – “Flavor Grabber”
Ted Berrigan – “from Clear the Range”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Julie or The Rose” (trans. Christine Grodzicki and George Tysh)
Dick Gallup – “La Boheme”
- Joe Ceravolo – “Night Ocean”
2. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 2, edited by Larry Fagin
San Francisco: Adventures in Poetry, July 1968
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 90 pages. Cover by Joe Brainard. Illustrations by Leon, George Schneeman, Ron Padgett, and Bob Jenney.
- Contents:
- Edwin Denby – “from Scream In A Cave”
Beaumont & Beaumont – “from Furtive Days”
Joe Brainard – “Jamaica Diary”
Lewis Warsh – “New York Diary”
Tom Clark – “from Riot the Garrick Theatre”
Dick Gallup – “Life of Tom Veitch”
Tom Veitch – “from The Transfigured”
Johnny Stanton – “from The Jissom Trail”
Kenward Elmslie – “Peaches Littlejohn”
Anne Waldman – “from The Egypt Journal”
Ron Padgett & Tom Veitch – “from Star Gut”
Jim Carroll – “from a diary”
Ron Padgett – “The New Plagiarism”
Bill Berkson – “In the American Rain”
Larry Fagin – “Two Dog Stories”
John Ashbery & James Schuyler – “from Nest of Ninnies”
Kenward Elmslie – “Breach Baby”
Michael Brownstein – “Kites”
Francis Picabia – “5 Minute Intermission”
Tom Disch – “Sinking Into Trouble”
Johnny Stanton – “In the Moonlight”
Pierre Reiter – “Craze Man Whiliiker”
- Edwin Denby – “from Scream In A Cave”
3. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 3, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, January 1969
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 58 pages, mimeograph printed by Don Santina at the San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Program. Cover by Gordon Baldwin.
- Contents:
- Clark Coolidge – “Amount”
Francis Picabia – “Drawings by the Girl without a Mother” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Tom Veitch – “from The Luis Armed Story”
Aram Saroyan – “Electric Poetry”
- Clark Coolidge – “Amount”
4. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 4, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1969
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages. Cover by Ed Ruscha. Illustration by Joe Brainard.
- Contents:
- Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Thirty-five is gone…”
Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Bobbie, when I punch you…”
Ted Berrigan – “Entrance”
Ted Berrigan – “El Greco”
Ted Berrigan – “It’s Important”
Ted Berrigan – “Grey Morning”
Ted Berrigan – “Hash for Breakfast”
Ted Berrigan – “Dial-A-Poem”
Ted Berrigan – “Cock of the Walk”
Ted Berrigan – “Anne’s Birthday: April 2nd 1968”
Kenward Elmslie – “Waking Up”
John Giorno – “Cunt”
Lewis Warsh – “Questions of Travel”
Lewis Warsh – [untitled] “The woodchuck waddles away…”
Lewis Warsh – “Hatred”
Lewis Warsh – “Two People”
Lewis Warsh – “Drops”
Dick Gallup – “Eskimoes Again”
Dick Gallup – “Nite Light”
Dick Gallup – “Add Water to this Urn”
Dick Gallup – “The Sharpest Knives in the World”
Dick Gallup – “Life Says OK”
Dick Gallup – “Dive Bomber”
Dick Gallup – “Chicken Wire”
Michael Brownstein – “The Fledgling”
Michael Brownstein – “The Booklets”
Michael Brownstein – “In and Out of Paris”
Michael Brownstein – “In Search of the Miraculous, for Dick Gallup”
Michael Brownstein – “Sonnet”
Ted Berrigan – “Babe Rainbow”
- Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Thirty-five is gone…”
5. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 5, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, January 1970
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 124 pages. Cover by George Schneeman. Illustrations by Joe Brainard.
- Contents:
- Tony Towle – “The Insects”
Tony Towle – “Snow”
Tony Towle – “We Plunged into the Western Hemisphere”
Tony Towle – “Poem, the Dramatic Monologue”
Tony Towle – “Ballade”
Tony Towle – “Barbarossa”
Tony Towle – [untitled] “A skylight of wire…”
Tony Towle – [untitled] “Necessities are lacking…”
Tony Towle – “Sunday”
Tony Towle – “Ode”
Tony Towle – “Yeats”
Tony Towle – “On Water Island”
Tony Towle – “Lines”
Tony Towle – “Scenes from the Life of Christ”
Ron Padgett – “Reading Proust”
Frank O’HAra – “To the Poem”
Frank O’HAra – “Lisztiana”
Frank O’HAra – “To Edwin Denby”
Frank O’HAra – [untitled] “There’s nothing worse…”
Frank O’HAra – “The Arboretum”
Frank O’HAra – “A Homage”
Frank O’HAra – “Spleen”
Frank O’HAra – [untitled] “The stars are tighter…”
Frank O’HAra – “A Quiet Poem”
Bill Berkson – “From a Childhood, for Joe Brainard”
Bill Berkson – “Dangerous Enemies”
Bill Berkson – “Tastes”
Anne Waldman – “Brinks of Fame”
Ron Padgett – “Wax Museum”
Aram Saroyan – “Introduction”
Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Everybody loves…”
Aram Saroyan – “Gailyn”
Ted Berrigan – “Tough Brown Coat, for Jim Carroll”
Ted Berrigan – “To Anne”
Ted Berrigan – “Like Poem, to Joan Fagin”
Ted Berrigan – “In Bed”
Ted Berrigan – “Life in the Future, for Donna”
Ted Berrigan – “Prose & Poetry, to Alice”
Ted Berrigan – “Hall of Mirrors, for Kristin Lems”
Ted Berrigan – “To Southhampton”
Ted Berrigan – “Ann Arbor Song”
Joe Brainard – “The Banana Book”
Ron Padgett – “A Whiff of Mint”
Richard Fields – “The Yellow-Breasted Bird”
John Godfrey – [untitled] “The gravity of our situation…”
John Godfrey – “Rolling April”
John Godfrey – “First Taste”
John Godfrey – “Year Out”
John Godfrey – “A Woman More Graced”
John Godfrey – “Touch”
John Godfrey – “Rain Waste”
Anne Waldman – “Under the Influence of”
Anne Waldman – “Up Here, as in India”
Aram Saroyan – “Pool of Fluff”
Aram Saroyan – “A Cartoon of Energy”
Aram Saroyan – “Aunt & Uncle”
Aram Saroyan – “My Orchestra is Ready”
Aram Saroyan – “A Joint open Hearing”
Harris Schiff – “Cross Country”
Ron Padgett – “The Story of St-Pol Roux”
Ted Berrigan – “London Air”
Kenward Elmslie – “Chinese Creep”
Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “one bow who…”
Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “for set via…”
Charles North – “After Vaughan”
John Ashbery – “100 Multiple-Choice Questions”
Jim Brodey – “Graveside”
Jim Brodey – “God Help Us”
Jim Brodey – “Red Lilac”
Jim Brodey – “Heart-Send”
Jim Brodey – “Heartfield, to Ron Cooper”
Jim Brodey – “Thought-Cycle”
Jim Brodey – “Imitation Brodey”
Ted Greenwald – “Chat”
Ted Greenwald – “The Such Thing”
Ted Greenwald – “Tropical Dispatch, for Peter S.”
Ted Greenwald – “Having a Wonderful Time”
Ron Padgett – “Obscure Destinies”
- Tony Towle – “The Insects”
6. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 6, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, June 1970
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 64 pages. Cover by Jim Dine.
- Contents:
- Michael Brownstein – “Something for Everybody
James Schuyler – “Buildings”
James Schuyler – “Sometimes”
James Schuyler – “Alice Faye at Ruby Foo’s”
James Schuyler – “An East Window on Elizabeth Street, for Bob Dash”
James Schuyler – “Spring”
James Schuyler – “Scarlet Tanager”
James Schuyler – [untitled] “Gulls loudly insist…”
James Schuyler – [untitled] “Swimming in the memorial park pond…”
James Schuyler – “Closed Gentian Distances”
James Schuyler – “A Sun Cab”
Scott Cohen – “Car”
Scott Cohen – “Jane”
Scott Cohen – “Bill Monroe’s Instrumentds”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Night Again”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Girl”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Night Letter”
Peter Schjeldahl – “God”
Peter Schjeldahl – “M”
Peter Schjeldahl – “For the Night Riders”
Peter Schjeldahl – “To Speak is to Lie”
Tom Clark – “A Sailor’s Life”
Hiton Obenzinger – “Motto over a Dorr”
Hiton Obenzinger – “From a Fork”
Michel Brownstein – “Footprints on the Moon”
Frank Lima – “Underground with the Oriole, for Joe & Rosemary”
Frank Lima – “Salad Exit”
Frank Lima – “February ’68”
Frank Lima – “Demitasse, for Patsy Southgate”
Frank Lima – “Prospero”
Frank Lima – “Harbor”
Trevor Winkfield – Robinson Crusoe”
Blaise Cendrars – “Roof Garden” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “On the Hudson” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Amphitryon” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Office” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Girl” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Young Man” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Work” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Trestle Work” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “The Thousand Islands” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Blaise Cendrars – “Laboratory” (trans. Ron Padgett)
Tom Veitch – “Cooked Zeros”
- Michael Brownstein – “Something for Everybody
7. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 7, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, February 1971
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 62 pages. Cover by Aram Saroyan.
- Contents:
- Aram Saroyan – “from The Letter Book”
John Giorno – “from The American Book of the Dead”
Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “ace act ado”
Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “gee get gib”
Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “pro pea pee”
Joe Brainard – “Muy Malo”
Joe Brainard – “At Day’s End”
Joe Brainard – “Short Story”
Joe Brainard – “1970”
Joe Brainard – “Real Life”
Joe Brainard – “Art”
Joe Brainard – “Henry”
Joe Brainard – “Rim of the Desert”
Joe Brainard – “Life”
Joe Brainard – “How to Be Alone Again”
Joe Brainard – “Friday, Nov. 27, 1970”
Joe Brainard – “Thursday, December 8, 1970”
Vincent Katz – “Pro Football”
Bernadette Mayer – “from Moving”
Byrd Hoffman – [untitled] “And now in saying something…”
- Aram Saroyan – “from The Letter Book”
8. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 8, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1971
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages. Cover by Rudy Burckhardt.
- Contents:
- Dick Gallup – “Charged Particles”
Lewis Warsh – “True Colors”
Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard – “Cherry”
Steve Malmude – “To Portland”
Andrei Codrescu – “Unchosen Things”
Andrei Codrescu – “Thru a Grill”
Andrei Codrescu – “Comedia dell’Arte”
Andrei Codrescu – “To your Father”
Andrei Codrescu – “Cossey at the Bots”
Andrei Codrescu – “Debts”
Richard Kolmar – “Voluntary”
Richard Kolmar – “Part of an Elegy”
Glen Baxter – “Symbar”
Glen Baxter – “From the Barge”
Glen Baxter – “Apponitmantes”
Glen Baxter – “Ack-acks”
Glen Baxter – “Utopia Parkway”
Philip Whalen – “Scenes of Life at the Capital”
- Dick Gallup – “Charged Particles”
9. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 9, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Spring 1972
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 125 pages. Cover art by John Giorno.
- Contents:
- Jennifer Bartlett – “from Jennifer Losch: A Biography”
Glen Baxter – “Morbihan”
Glen Baxter – “Chauderon”
Joe Brainard – “Poem” (“Kaleidoscopic umbrellas…”)
Rebecca Brown – “The Day I Crossed Traffic against Traffic”
Rebecca Brown – “Dissatisfaction”
Michael Brownstein – “What America’s Thinking”
William Burroughs – “Distant Heels”
Clark Coolidge – “Basil Rathbone’s Bathrobe”
Edwin Denby – “Army Songs”
Jim Dine – “The Short History of New York”
Joe Brainard – “A True Story”
Louis Eilshemius – “An Unusual Inventor”
Kenward Elmslie – “Eventual Bruises”
Kenward Elmslie – “Ground Hog Day Pensee”
Mary Ferrari – “The Blue and Yellow”
Gilbert and George – “We are only Human Sculptors”
Allen Ginsberg – “New England in hte Fall: Autumn Gold”
John Godfrey – “Idiots”
John Godfrey – “Sympathetic Fallacy”
Joe Brainard – “No Story”
Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “shut down…”
Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “our faces…”
Ted Greenwald – “Comb”
Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “poems pile up…”
Alice Hedges – “The Door”
John Koethe – “Some”
Valery Larbaud – “La Neige”
Glen Baxter – “Glove Soup”
Steve Malmude – “Companion Poems”
Steve Malmude – “Stove & Lamp”
Harry Mathews – “The Dream-Work”
Bernadette Mayer – “3 X’s”
Pat Nolan – “Vision”
Pat Nolan – “A Controlled Habit”
Joe Brainard – “What’s Cooking”
Charles North – “To The Book”
Charles North – “Elizabethan and Nova Scotian Music”
Charles North – “Naming Colors”
Hilton Obenzinger – “The Brunt”
Peter Orlovsky – [untitled] “A Year and 1/2 Ago”
Maureen Owen – “Digging Sassafras in July”
Maureen Owen – “O Propitious Constellation!”
Ron Padgett – “Gentlemen Prefer Carrots”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “Vacuum”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “The Bullring”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “Popcorn”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “Coffee Service”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “Heh-Heh”
Jonathan Rosenstein – “Charm”
Harris Schiff – [untitled] “twilight…”
Harris Schiff – [untitled] “the battery…”
Harris Schiff – “Memorial for Paul Blackburn Oct 31 1971”
Harris Schiff – “Too, for Bernadette Mayer”
Joe Brainard – “Grandmother”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Theater”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Great Poet”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Trepanation”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Russian Escape”
Peter Schjeldahl – “Dynamite”
James Schuyler – “A Vermont Diary”
Richard Snow – “Philo Vance”
George Stanley – “Pitchfork”
Tony Towle – “On Spring Street”
Anne Waldman – “Little Poem in Search of the Past”
Anne Waldman – [untitled] “if you do this…”
Lewis Warsh – “Single File”
Joseph White – [untitled] “turn the day over…”
Joseph White – [untitled] “while tearing up the platform…”
Joseph White – [untitled] “out to the corner…”
Joseph White – [untitled] “the back of a drawing…”
B. Wilkie – “Notes on My Work, 1971”
Joe Brainard – “Poem” (“Roses are red…”)
- Jennifer Bartlett – “from Jennifer Losch: A Biography”
10. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 10, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages. Cover taken from a “Tijuana Bible”.
- Contents:
- This is the anonymous issue published without author, editor, publication and publisher names.
11. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 11, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Spring 1974
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 121 pages. Cover art by Rory McEwen.
- Contents:
- Anne Waldman – “Fast Speaking Woman”
Michael McClure – “from Fleas”
Fielding Dawson – “from Oz – with an X”
Clark Coolidge – “Coda to The Maintains”
Bruce Boyd – “Introduction”
Ron Padgett – “Wilson ’57”
John Wieners – “A Superficial Estimation”
Tony Towle – “Autobiography”
Joe Ceravolo – “Water Over Stones”
James Schuyler – “A Treasury of Birthday Thoughts”
Ebbe Borregaard – “October Seventh Poem”
Guillaume Apollinaire – “Zone” (trans. Ron Padgett)
- Anne Waldman – “Fast Speaking Woman”
12. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 12, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1975
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages. Cover art unattributed.
- Contents:
- Gregory Corso – “Verse”
Ron Padgett – “Excerpt from a Work in Progress” (“And they’re off…”)
Alverna Brodecky – “Letter”
Frank O’Hara – “To Norman, En Voyage”
Joseph LeSueur – “A Note on the Preceding Poem”
Jack Spicer – “Babel 3”
Jack Spicer – “Dardenella”
Jack Spicer – “Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Lack of oxygen…”
Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Invisible zombies…”
Jack Spicer – “Spider Song”
John Wieners – “There are Very Important Minutes”
John Wieners – “I’ve Lived Here Longer than Anybody Else…”
John Wieners – “Greer”
John Wieners – “Home Surgery at Merchant Marine”
Bobbie Louise Hawkins – “Phone Call”
Bobbie Louise Hawkins – “Conversation between Five Women”
Charles North – “Two Pathetic Songs”
Steve Malmude – “Dedication”
Steve Malmude – “Duchess”
John Ashbury – “Once Upon a Time”
Stanley Kunitz – “A Blessing of Women”
David Meltzer – “from Harps”
Mary Ferrari – “Fiery Easter, 1972”
Mary Ferrari – “The Earth Within”
Mary Ferrari – “The Lamp”
Kenneth Koch – “The Apes of Banzona”
Red Grooms – [untitled] “House painted…”
Red Grooms – [untitled] “Cloud look down…”
Bill Zavatsky – “Tonight”
Bill Zavatsky – “Announcement”
Bill Zavatsky – “The New Capitalism”
Bill Zavatsky – “The Influence of Flowers”
Helen Adam – “Cheerless Junkie’s Song”
Allen Ginsberg – “End Vietnam War”
Ted Greenwald – “The Coast”
Tony Towle – “Quotes”
Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Tenement”
Alfred Starr Hamilton – “The Flag”
Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Pink Ants”
Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Lime Honey”
Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Night”
Lewis MacAdams – “Ohio Blue Tip”
Ed Sanders – “The Critic”
Ed Sanders – “The 34th Year”
John Godfrey – “Morning Poem”
John Godfrey – “Evening Song”
Valery Larbaud – “Private Devotions” (tans. Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky)
Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky – “Notes”
Michael Palmer – “Without Music, 2”
Dale Herd – “My Old Man”
Dale Herd – “Blood”
Dale Herd – “Welfare”
Simon Schuchat – “Poem” (“the leaves are turning…”)
Carter Ratcliff – “Arrivederci, Modernismo”
Son House – “Dry Spell Blues”
- Gregory Corso – “Verse”
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