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Section D:
This index collects contributions of poems, stories, letters (poetic), and a play to periodicals; reference is made to Sanford Dorbin’s A Checklist of the Published Writings of Jack Spicer (California Librarian, October 1970).
1946
1. THE OCCIDENT, edited by Jocelyn Willat
Berkeley, Winter 1946
Spicer contribution: “To the Semanticists” [poem], “The Chess Game” [poem], “A New Testament” [poem]
(Dorbin B1-B3)
1947
2. CONTOUR QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Chris Maclaine
Berkeley, April 1947
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “After the ocean, shattering with equinox…” [poem], “4 A.M.” [poem], “Chinoiserie” [poem]
(Dorbin B4-B6)
1948
3. BERKELEY MISCELLANY, No. 1, edited by Robert Duncan
Berkeley, 1948
Spicer contribution: “A Night in Four Parts” [poem], “Troy Poem” [poem], “Sonnet” [poem]
(Dorbin B8-B10)
1949
4. BERKELEY MISCELLANY, No. 2, edited by Robert Duncan
Berkeley, 1949
Spicer contribution: “The Scroll-Work on the Casket” [story]
(Dorbin B11)
1954
5. OCCIDENT, edited by Richard Rummonds
Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California, Spring 1954
Spicer contribution: “On Reading Last Year’s Love Poems” [poem], “The Inheritance: Palm Sunday” [poem]
(not in Dorbin)
1955
6. CITY LIGHTS, No. 5, edited by Peter Martin
San Francisco: City Lights, Spring 1955
Spicer contribution: “On Watching a TV Boxing Match in October” [poem]
1956
7. AUDIENCE, Vol. 4, Number 2 *
Cambridge: Audience, 1956
Spicer contribution: “Five Words for Joe Dunn on his 22nd Birthday” [poem]
1957
8. EVERGREEN REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Barney Rosset and Donald Allen
New York City, 1957
Spicer contribution: “Berkeley in Time of Plague” [poem], “The Dancing Ape…” [poem], “Troy Poem” [poem], “The Scroll-Work on the Casket” [story], “Hibernation – After Morris Graves” [poem], “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy” [poem], “The Song of the Bird in the Loins” [poem]
(Dorbin B14-B18)
9. MEASURE, No. 1, edited by John Wieners
Boston, Summer 1957
Spicer contribution: “Song for Bird and Myself” [poem]
(not in Dorbin)
1959
10. BEATITUDE, No. 3, published by John Kelly
San Francisco, 23 May 1959
Spicer contribution: “Fifteen False Propositions about God” [poem]
(Dorbin B19)
11. BEATITUDE, No. 6, published by John Kelly
San Francisco, [June] 1959
Spicer contribution: “Epithalamium” [poem] [co-authored with Bruce Boyd, Ronald Primack, and George Stanley]
(Dorbin B20)
12. J, No. 1, edited by Jack Spicer
San Francisco, 1959
Spicer contribution: “Hokkus” [poem]
(not in Dorbin)
13. J, No. 2, edited by Jack Spicer *
San Francisco, 1959
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “Down to new beaches where the sea…” [poem], “Epilog for Jim” [poem]
(Dorbin B21-B22)
14. J, No. 3, edited by Jack Spicer
San Francisco, 1959
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “The slobby sea where you float in…” [poem], “Last Hokku” [poem]
(Dorbin B23-B24)
15. J, No. 4, edited by Jack Spicer
San Francisco, [October] 1959
Spicer contribution: “Jacob” [poem]
(Dorbin B25)
16. J, No. 5, edited by Jack Spicer
San Francisco, 1959
Spicer contribution: “Fifth Elegy” [poem]
(Dorbin B26)
1960
17. BEATITUDE, No. 17, edited by Bob Kaufman
San Francisco: City Light Books, Oct-Nov 1960
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “When I hear the word Ferlinghetti…” [poem]
(Dorbin B29)
1961
18. J, No. 8, edited by Harold Dull *
San Francisco, 1961
Spicer contribution: “A Translation for Jim” [poem], “A Translation for Jeorge” [poem]
(Dorbin B27-B28)
1962
19. THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER – N, edited by George Stanley
San Francisco, Spring 1962
Spicer contribution: “Three Marxist Essays” [poem]
(Dorbin B32)
20. MEASURE, No. 3, edited by John Wieners
Boston, Summer 1962
Spicer contribution: “Central Park West” [poem]
(not in Dorbin)
1964
21. OPEN SPACE, No. 0, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, January 1964
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “This ocean, humiliating in its disguises…” [poem] [collected in Language]
(Dorbin B33)
22. OPEN SPACE, No. 1, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, February 1964
Spicer contribution: “Sporting Life” [poem] [collected in Language]
(Dorbin B34)
23. OPEN SPACE, No. 2, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, February 1964
Spicer contribution: “This is Submitted for your Valentine Contest” [poem], [untitled] “I hear a banging on the door of night…” [poem] [collected in Language]
(Dorbin B35-B36)
24. OPEN SPACE, No. 3, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, March 1964
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “Just because baseball is not poetry…” [statements], “Predictions” [collected in Language], [untitled] “The log in the fire…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “Finally the messages penetrate…” [poem] [collected in Language], “Dear Ferlinghetti” [letter]
(Dorbin B37-B41)
25. OPEN SPACE, No. 4, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, 1964
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “Heroes eat soup…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “Smoke signals…” [poem], [untitled] “A redwood forest…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “The whorship of beauty…” [poem] [collected in Language]
(Dorbin B42-45)
26. OPEN SPACE, No. 5, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, 1964
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “Pull down the shade of ruin, rain verse…” [poem], [untitled] “If your mother’s mother had not riven, mother…” [poem], [untitled] “What in sight do I have…” [poem], [untitled] “It comes May and the summers renew themselves…” [poem], [untitled] “Thanatos, the death-plant in the skull…” [poem] [collected in Language]
27. OPEN SPACE, No. 6, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, June 1964
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “1st SF home rainout since. Bounce…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “The country is not very well defined…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “I squint my eyes to cry…” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “The metallurgical analysis of the stone that…” [poem] [collected in Language]
28. OPEN SPACE, No. 7, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, July 1964
Spicer contribution: “Love Poems” [poem] [collected in Language], “Protestant Letter” [letter]
29. OPEN SPACE, No. 8, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, August 1964
Spicer contribution: “Intermission I-III” [poem] [collected in Language], “Transformations I- III” [poem] [collected in Language]
30. OPEN SPACE, No. 9, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, September 1964
Spicer contribution: “Morphemicks, 1-4” [poem] [collected in Language]
31. OPEN SPACE, No. 10, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, October 1964
Spicer contribution: “Phonemics” [poem] [collected in Language]
32. OPEN SPACE, No. 11, edited by Stan Persky
San Francisco, November 1964
Spicer contribution: “Graphemics, 1-5” [poem] [collected in Language]
1965
33. THE WIVENHOE PARK REVIEW, No. 1, edited by Thomas Clark and Andrew Crozier
Essex: University of Essex, Winter 1965
Spicer contribution: “15 False Propositions about God” [poem]
34. WORK, No. 2, edited by John Sinclair
Detroit: Artists Workshop Press, Fall 1965
Spicer contribution: “Graphemics, 10” [poem] [collected in Language]
[not in Dorbin checklist]
35. COW, No. 1, edited by Luther T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1965
Spicer contribution: “Dear Sister Mary” [letter]
1966
36. WHE’RE, No.1, edited by Ron Caplan
Detroit: Artists’ Workshop, Summer 1966
Spicer contribution: “Dover Beach” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “The Birds” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “The Birth of Venus” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “Lament for the Makers” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “Postscript” [story] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “The Scroll-Work on the Casket” [story]
37. O’ER, No. 2, edited by David Sandberg
San Francisco, December 1966
Spicer contribution: “Buster Keaton Rides Again: A Sequel” [poem] [collected in After Lorca]
1967
38. THE PACIFIC NATION, No. 1, edited by Robin Blaser
Vancouver, June 1967
Spicer contribution: “A Poem to the Reader of the Poem” [poem]
39. FLOATING BEAR, No. 33, edited by Diane di Prima
Brooklyn, 1967
Spicer contribution: “The Bridge Game” [poem], “Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes” [poem]
40. FLOATING BEAR, No. 34, edited by Diane di Prima
Brooklyn, 1967
Spicer contribution: “The Day Five Thousand Fish Died in the Charles River” [poem]
WINE BUTTON, edited by Dave Fraser, Robert Serling, Dick Sweeney
Highland Park: Wine Button, n.d. [c.1967]
Spicer contribution: “Correspondence” [letter], “The Day Five Thousand Fish Died along the Charles River”
1968
41. COLLECTION, No. 1, edited by Peter Riley
Sussex, March 1968
Spicer contribution: “The Red Wheelbarrow” [poem]
42. TISH, No. 42, edited by Brad Robinson and Dan McLeod
Vancouver, March 1968
Spicer contribution: “Three Poems for Tish” [poem] [collected in The Book of Magazine Verse]
[not in Dorbin checklist]
43. IRON, No. 4
North Vancouver: Iron, April 1968
Spicer contribution: “A Textbook of Poetry” [poem] [collected in The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether], “7 Poems for the Vancouver Festival” [poem] [collected in The Book of Magazine Verse]
1969
44. IRON, No. 7, edited by Brian Fawcett
British Columbia, 1969
Spicer contribution: “Ode for Walt Whitman” [poem] [collected in After Lorca]
45. TISH, No.44, Issue D, edited by Karen Tallman
Vancouver, February 1969
Spicer contribution: “Five Variations on the Earth” [poem]
46. LAMPETER MUSE, Vol. 3, No. 4, edited by Norman Weinstein *
Annandale-on-Hudson: Bard College, Spring 1969
Spicer contribution: “The Book of Gwenivere” [poem] [collected in The Holy Grail]
1970-1979
47. WRITING, No. 2, edited by Stan Persky *
Vancouver: Georgia Straight, January-February 1970
Spicer contribution: “Admonitions” [poems] [collected in Admonitions]
48. BOSS, No. 4, edited by Reginald Gay
New York: Boss Books, 1970
Spicer contribution: “Indian Summer: Minneapolis 1950” [poem]
[note: published as a broadside in 1970 as Portents 16]
49. CATERPILLAR, No. 12, edited by Clayton Eshleman
New York, July 1970
Spicer contribution: “The Dancing Ape…” [poem], “Berkeley in Time of Plague” [poem], “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy” [poem], “Troy Poem” [poem], “A Dialogue Between Intellect and Passion” [poem], “All Hallows Eve” [poem], “At a Party” [poem], “A Night in Four Parts” [poem], “Orpheus after Eurydice” [poem], “Orpheus in Hell” [poem], “Orpheus’ Song to Apollo” [poem], “The Song of the Bird in the Loins” [poem], “On Reading Last Year’s Love Poems” [poem], “Watching a TV Boxing Match in October” [poem], “The Day Five Thousand Fish Died along the Charles River” [poem], “A Heron for Mrs. Altrocchi” [poem], “Song for the Great Mother” [poem], “Song for Bird and Myself” [poem], “A Poem to the Reader of the Poem” [poem], “Five Words for Joe Dunn on his 22nd Birthday” [poem], “A Prayer for Pvt. Graham Mackintosh on Halloween” [poem], “Letters to Graham Mackintosh” [prose], “Pentheus and the Dancers” [drama], “From a Detective Novel” [fiction], “Letters to Jim Alexander” [prose], “From the Vancouver Lectures” [prose]
50. NINE QUEEN BEES, Zero Issue, edited by Jim Chapson, James Liddy, and Bill Siverly
Honolulu: Nine Queen Bees, Summer 1970
Spicer contribution: “Dover Beach” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “The Birds” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “The Birth of Venus” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “Lament for the Makers” [poem] [collected in Lament for the Makers], “Postscript” [story] [collected in Lament for the Makers]
51. IS, No. 8, edited by Victor Coleman *
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1970
52. THE HARRIS REVIEW, edited by Harris Schiff
New York: Harris Review, 1971
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “The oaks…” [poem], [untitled] “With fifteen cents and that I could get a…” [poem]
53. IO, No. 10 Baseball Issue, edited by Richard Grossinger
Cape Elizabeth, ME: IO Publications, 1971
Spicer contribution: “Unfinished Translation” [poem]
[note: prepared for, but no included in After Lorca]
54. STOOGE, No. 6, Editor: Geoff Young and Allen Schiller
Albuquerque, 1972
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “These big trucks drive…” [poem]
55. SHOCKS, Double Issue 3/4, edited by Stephen Vincent
San Francisco: Momo’s Press, March 1974
Spicer contribution: “Dear Lorca” [letter] [collected in After Lorca]
56. MANROOT, No. 10, edited by Paul Mariah
South San Francisco: Man-Root, Fall-Winter 1974
Spicer contribution: “To the Semanticists” [poem], “The Chess Game” [poem], “A New Testament” [poem], [untitled] “After the ocean, shattering with equinox…” [poem], “4 A.M.” [poem], “Chinoiserie” [poem], “The Scroll-Work on the Casket” [story], “Indian Summer: Minneapolis 1950” [poem], “Christmas Eve: 1952” [poem], “All Hallows Eve” [poem], “Watching a TV Boxing Match in October” [poem], “Lyric for Gary” [poem], “Sonnet for Gary” [poem], “Portrait of an Artist” [poem], “The Inheritance: Palm Sunday” [poem], “A Postscript to the Berkeley Renaissance” [poem], “The Gardener’s Son” [poem], “Manhattan” [poem], [untitled] “These woods, so fit for emperors…” [poem], “Admonitions” [poem] [collected in Admonitions], “15 False Propositions about God” [poem] [collected in 15 False Propositions about God], “Billy the Kid” [poem] [collected in Billy the Kid], “Hokkus” [poem], [untitled] “Down to new beaches where the sea…” [poem], “Epilog for Jim” [poem], [untitled] “The slobby sea where you float in…” [poem], “Last Hokku” [poem], “Jacob” [poem], “Fifth Elegy” [poem], “Three Marxist Essays” [prose], “Central Park West” [poem], [untitled] “This is an ode to Horace Stoneham…” [poem], “Dear Lew” [letter], “This is Submitted for your Valentine Contest” [poem], “Protestant Letter” [letter], “Dear Sister Mary” [letter], “The Red Wheelbarrow” [poem], “Epithalamium” [poem] [co-authored with Bruce Boyd, Ronald Primack, and George Stanley]
57. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 12, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: The Poetry Project, Summer 1975
Spicer contribution: “Babel” [poem], “Dardenella” [poem], “Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes” [poem], [untitled] “Lack of oxygen…” [poem], [untitled] “In- / Visible zombies…” [poem], “Spider Song” [poem]
58. THE CAPILANO REVIEW, No. 8/9, edited by Pierre Coupey
Vancouver: Capilano College, Fall 1975
Spicer contribution: “The Dancing Ape…” [poem], “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy” [poem], “The Song of the Bird in the Loins” [poem]
59. TELEPHONE, No. 10, edited Maureen Owen
New York: Telephone Books Press, 1975
Spicer contribution: “Five Variations for K.” [poem]
60. IO, No. 24, edited by Kevin Kerran and Richard Grossinger
Ann Arbor: North Atlantic Books, 1977
Spicer contribution: “Love Poem 1” [poem] [collected in Language], [untitled] “It comes in May…” [poem] [collected in Language], “Four Poems for the St. Louis Sporting News” [poem]
61. BOUNDARY 2, Vol. 6, No. 1, edited by William V. Spanos *
Binghamton: SUNY, Fall 1977
Spicer contribution: “An Exercise” [poems]
1980-1989
62. ACTS, No. 6, A Book of Correspondences for Jack Spicer, edited by David Levi Straus and Benjamin Hollander *
San Francisco: Acts, 1986
63. LINE, No. 7/8, edited by Roy Miki *
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University, Spring-Fall 1986
Spicer contribution: “Poems for the Vancouver Festival” [poems]
64. IRONWOOD, Vol. 14, Issue 2, No. 28, edited by Michael Cudihy *
Tucson: Ironwood Press, Fall 1986
Spicer contribution: [untitled] “As if the Chinese vase…” [poem]
1990+
65. O-BLEK, No. 10, edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath *
Stockbridge: The Garlic Press, Fall 1991
Spicer contribution: “For Kids” [poem], “Spider Song” [poem]
66. LIFT, Nos. 10/11, edited by Joseph Torra *
Somerville: Lift, 1992
67. EXACT CHANGE YEARBOOK, No. 1, edited by Michael Palmer *
Boston: Exact Change, 1994
68. AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, Vol. 17, No. 1, edited by Stephen Berg *
Philadelphia: World Poetry, January-February 1998
Spicer contribution: “A Poem without a Single Bird in it” [poem]
69. NO: A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, No. 3, edited by by Deb Klowden and Ben Lerner
New York: Lost Roads Publishers, 2004
Spicer contribution: “Troilus” [play]
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