Sum

Edited by Carl Woideck, Sum ran for three issues from 1966 to 1968 and was published out of Lakewood, Ohio

1. SUM, No. 1, edited by Carl Woideck
Lakewood: Sum, 1966
First edition, saddle-stapled in collaged and painted wrappers, 4.25” x 5.5”, 22 pages, mimeograph printed.

“sum – a time of meeting of spirits” – c.w.

  • Contents:
    1. Hak and Jean Vogrin – “There’s a Bird in My Attic”
      Kent Taylor – “Aug 2, 1965”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “pressures in the head…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “chimney apartments…”
      Tom Szuter – [untitled] “three earthenware cups…”
      Carl Woideck – “Jumping Horses”
      Hak Vogrin – [untitled] “The moon was seen…”

2. SUM, No. 2, edited by Carl Woideck
Lakewood: Sum, 1966
First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5.5” x 8.5”, 20 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Hak Vogrin.

“for what it’s worth, this is the Indian sum, and I hope the magazine explains what that means.”

  • Contents:
    1. Lyndon Puw – “Sunday Morning”
      Anne McCormick – “When Flash and Clap Collaborate”
      d.a. levy – “They Have Stolen my Dream Time”
      Kent Taylor – “John Handy’s Spanish Lady”
      Grace Butcher – “1/17/66”
      Randy Rhody – “The Honeylight Moon”
      Carl Woideck – For Elarka”
      Carl Woideck – “Blue-Sky Summer Poem”
      A. Greenshoot [pseud. Jim Lowell] – “The Rock”

3. SUM, No. 3, edited by Carl Woideck
Sacramento: Sum, c.1968
First edition, saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers, 5.5” x 8.5”, 32 pages, mimeograph printed. Illustrations by Hak Vogrin. Cover art by Lisa Bowden

“sky like mountains / hills, ocean / moon, a marble”

  • Contents:
    1. D.r. Wagner – “Some of Them Old Songs”
      Phil Weidman – “Her Businesses”
      Phil Weidman – “Peephole”
      Peter Wild – “Sun”
      Peter Wild – “Sniper”
      San Grolmes – “Overwards”
      Joel Friedman – [untitled] “jagg’d on the crest-piece…”
      Dave Kelly – “They all Look like That after Football Games”
      Terry Stokes – “The Formal Protest”
      Kent Taylor – “3-18-68 (for Jack Kerouac)
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “the sunlight shining thru…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “strange they way they…”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “It is morning…”
      Joel Friedman – [untitled] “snap’d fingers…”
      Joel Friedman – “For Janie H.”
      Bill Wyatt – “Three Landscape Poems”
      Peter Wild – “Fish”
      Peter Wild – “Farm”
      Peter Wild – “Headlight”
      Carl Woideck – [untitled] “wheat germ…”
      Carl Woideck – [untitled] “two cities…”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “He though there was some reason…”