Free Love Periodically

1. FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, No. 1, edited by RJS
Cleveland: Free Love Press, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed cover, 8.5” x 11”, 26 leaves printed recto only, spirit-duplicator printed.

“featuring the poets who read at the fourth open poetry reading at the Gate in Cleveland”

  • Contents:
    1. rjs – “Poets at the Gate” [editorial]
      Don Thomas – “The Awakening”
      rjs – “Anti-Gestapo Games” [editorial]
      rjs – “Anti-Gestapo Poem”
      Frank Osinski – “A Joke”
      Grace Butcher – “East ‘o the Sun and West ‘o Kleve Land”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “the Old Hungarian says…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “barry goldwaters banjo…”
      Kent Taylor – “8-15-66”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “at twilight that moment when…”
      d.a. levy “We are all Putting Out / But Noone is Receiving”
      Geoffrey A. Cook – “Upon Allen Ginsberg’s Reading in Cleveland”
      d.a. levy – “Poem for Lama Ginsberg”
      Malcolm Hall – [untitled] “Returning home yesterday…”
      Walter R. Keller – “A Vision of St. Lucy’s Day”
      Russell Salamon – [untitled] “smooth extensions of now…”
      Grace Butcher – “Thank You Note”
      Matt Shulman – [untitled] “u sit back in the crowd…”
      John Wherry – “A Cleveland Composite in 3 Parts”

2. FREE LOVE PERIODICALLY, No. 2, guest-edited by Tom Kryss
Cleveland: Free Love Press, June 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5” x 11”, 32 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Illustrations by Dagmar and d.a. levy. Cover art by Dagmar.

“The editor is in jail & FLP #2 is being put out by telepathic juice ray mind batteries”

  • Contents:
    1. d.a. levy – “There Seems to be Some Discrepancy or Why is RJS in Jail?”
      d.a. levy – “What Can I Say?”
      Rik Davis – “Letter to The Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 18”
      Richard W. Morris – [letter]
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “Now it isn’t everyday…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “i always dreamed of…”
      Willie – [untitled] “There are no crickets in Albuquerque!”
      Bill Bissett – [untitled] “yur not to know it all…”
      Bill Bissett – “In Other Words th Food of th Soul”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “Jesus g siss G cyst…”
      R Wolter – “Ode to Pote”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “No place to puncture…”
      Pete Gregory – “Final Peace”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “Man I used to drink…”
      d.a. levy – “Psychedelic Information Center”
      George Montgomery – “Message to Cunda”
      Pete Gregory – “You Sitting in the Lotus Position”
      Pete Gregory – “Beach Girl”
      D.r. Wagner – [untitled] “this girl and she was…”
      T.L. Kryss – [untitled] “i hear the fogbells burning…”
      William Gallo – “Ashcroft, You”
      Douglas Blazek – “Youth Psalm”
      William Gallo – “Dream Two”
      Kent Taylor – “4/16/67”
      George Montgomery – “Salesman”
      rjs – “Ditto”
      Joyce Guion – “Eulogy for an Eagle”
      Clive Matson – “On the Way”
      R. Wolter – “For Gene Bloom, Who was Lately Sentenced”
      d.a. levy – “Visualized Prayer for the American God #5”