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Charles Bukowski: Contributions to Periodicals, 1970-1979

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SECTION D-2:
This index includes contributions to periodicals of poems and stories from 1970 to 1979*.

* Note: This is a work in progress and as such the sequence within years is alphabetical until more data is available

– – – 1970 – – – >

ADAM, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1970)

ADAM, Vol. 14, No. 7 (1970)

CALIFORNIA LIBRARIAN, Vol. 31, No. 4, edited by Don Kunitz
Sacramento: California Librarian, October 1970
“The Poetry Reading”
[library photocopy]

CANDID PRESS (1970)

CHICAGO REVIEW, Vol. 22, No. 1, edited by Harry Foster
Chicago: Chicago Review, Autumn 1970
“All Right, so Camus Had to Give Speeches before the Academies and Get His Ass Killed in a Car-Wreck”, “The Old Woman”

COTYLEDON, No. 2
Traverse City: Coyteldon Press, 1970
“A Hero’s Death”, “A Little Bit of Excitement”, “An Interesting Night”, “Robert Ryan: American Matador”, “Song”, “The Virgins of The Bulls”, “Those Sons of Bitches”

EPOS, Vol. 22, No. 2, edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne
Crescent City: Epos, Winter 1970-71
“Blues Song”

EVERGREEN REVIEW, Vol. 14, No. 74, edited by Barney Rosset
New York: Evergreen Review, January 1970
“The Day We Talked about James Thurber”

EVERGREEN REVIEW, Vol. 14, No. 79, edited by Barney Rosset
New York: Evergreen Review, June 1970
“Soup, Cosmos and Tears”

FLING (1970)

GHOST DANCE, No. 12, edited by Hugh Fox
East Lansing: Ghost Dance Press, (1970)
“The Poet’s Muse”

HEARSE, No. 14, edited by E. V. Griffith
Eureka: Hearse Press, 1970
“Sheets”

JEOPARDY, Vol. 6, edited by Carl Waluconis
Bellingham: Jeopardy, March 1970
“The White Poets”, “The Black Poets”, “Excerpts from Short Non-Moon Shots to Nowhere”

KNIGHT, Vol. 7, No. 12
Los Angeles: Sirkay Publishing, 1970
“The Great Zen Wedding”

KNIGHT, Vol. 8, No. 5
Los Angeles: Sirkay Publishing, September 1970
“Nut Ward Just East of Hollywood”

KNIGHT, Vol. 8, No. 7
Los Angeles: Sirkay Publishing, 1970
“Registered Letter” (excerpt from Post Office)

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 45
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 49
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 54
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 55
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 57
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., Jun 12 to 27, 1970
“New Mexico”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 60
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970
“Love it or Leave it”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 61
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970
“All the Pussy We Want”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 62
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., Aug 21-Sep 3, 1970
“Six Inches”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 63
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., Sep 4-17, 1970
“I Think of the Little Men”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 64
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., Sep 18-Oct 1, 1970
“An Evil Town”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 67
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970
“The Loner”

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 68
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 69
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 70
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1970
“The White Beard”

NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY (1970)

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, No. 3, edited by John Bryan
San Francisco: Underground Press, 1970
“Should We Burn Uncle Sam’s Ass?”

WHAT THERE IS LEFT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT A LIGHT THAT IS NOT ABLE TO BE THERE
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon 1970
“Dooby Do Do Do”, “Shoot The Goat Through The Head And Paint The Bones Green”, “The Shit Shits”, “The Vast Area Of Space Nothingness With With Snakes Crawling Through You And Everything”

SOUNDINGS, Vol. 2, No. 1, edited by Donald E. Fitch
Santa Barbara: University of California, May 1970
“The Miracle”, “The Immortal Bombs, The Stinking Feet of God be Quiet”, “The Flower Lover”

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIT SCENE, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by William J. Robson
Long Beach: Southern California Lit Scene, December 1970
“The Wailing Wall”

STATEMENT, No. 28, edited by Roger Margolis
Los Angeles: California State College, May 1970
“On to Rome”

STEPPENWOLF, No. 4, edited by Philip Boatright
Omaha: Steppenwolf, Autumn, 1970
“Quits”

STOOGE, No. 5, edited by Laura Chester and Geoffrey Young
Oconomowoc Lake: Stooge, 1970
“An Answer to a Critic of Sorts”

WORMWOOD REVIEW, , Vol. 10, No. 1, Issue 37, edited by Marvin Malone
Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1970
“One More Good One. Why Not?”, “Moonlight Ride”

WORMWOOD REVIEW, Vol. 10, No. 4, Issue 38, edited by Marvin Malone
Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1970
“Down Like Stairways, Up Like Smoke”, “Another Academy”

WORMWOOD REVIEW, , Vol. 10, No. 4, Issue 39, edited by Marvin Malone
Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1970
“A Correction To A Lady Of Poetry”, “A Warm Afternoon Just Off Sunset Boulevard”, “Boil Near Left Elbow”, “Yes”

WORMWOOD REVIEW, Vol. 10, No. 4, Issue 40, edited by Marvin Malone
Stockton: The Wormwood Review, 1970
“16 Jap Machine Gun Bullets”, “When All The Animals Lie Down”

– – – 1971 – – – >

ABYSS, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1971)

ADAM, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1971)

ADAM, Vol. 15, No. 5 (1971)

ADAM, Vol. 8, No. 11 (1971)

BEAR, No. 1, edited by A. P. Russo
Los Angeles: Bear, 1971
“The Answer”, “The Flu”

CRAZY HORSE, No. 9
Marshall: Southwest Minnesota State College, 1971
“That One”

EAST VILLAGE OTHER, Vol. 6, No. 11
New York: East Village Other Inc, 1971
“Swastika”

FLING, (1971)

FLING, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1971)

FLING, Vol. 14, No. 5 (1971)

HALF N’ HALF, (1971)

HANGING LOOSE, No. 15
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1971
“A Threat to My Immortality”, “The Garbageman”

HARRISON STREET REVIEW, No. 2 (1971)

HEARSE, No. 15, edited by E. V. Griffith
Eureka: Hearse Press, 1971
“The End of The Funhouse”, “Vallejo”

INTREPID, No. 18/19, edited by Allen De Loach
Buffalo: Intrepid Press, 1971
“A Blurb”, “That Liberating Moment”

INVISIBLE CITY, No. 1, edited by Paul Vangelisti Paul and John McBride
Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1971
“5 Men in Black Passing My Window”, “Ah”, “Here”, “Rolled Again”, “Songs of Death”, “Style”, “The Bums at Phillipe’s”, “The Last Days of The Suicide Kid”, “You Might As Well Kiss Your Ass Goodbye”, “Zoo”

INVISIBLE CITY, No. 2, edited by Paul Vangelisti Paul and John McBride
Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1971
“A Most Dark Night In April”, “Drinking”, “Last Act”, “The American Flag Shirt”, “Upon 2 Deaths”

INVISIBLE CITY, No. 3, edited by Paul Vangelisti Paul and John McBride
Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1971
“2 Carnations”, “Pleasure Song”, “The Shower”, “The Writer”

LAUGH LITERARY AND MAN THE HUMPING GUNS, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Charles Bukowski and Neeli Cherry
Los Angeles: Hatchetman Press, 1971
“Bukowski To Cherry”, “The Time I Knocked Out Ernest Hemingway And Was Discovered As A New Literary Giant”

LEMMING, No. 1 (1971)

MADRONA, No. 2, edited by J.K. Osborne, John Levy, and Vassilis Zambaras
Seattle: Gemini Press, 1971
“The Best Love Poem I Can Write at the Moment”

MANO MANO, No. 2, edited by Larry Lake
Denver, Colorado: Bowery Press, 1971
“Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window”, “Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha”, “The Angels Of Sunday”

MEATBALL, No. 8 (1971)

MEDITERRANEAN REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Robert DeMaria
Orient: Mediterranean Review, 1971
“Poem For An X-Bank Clerk”, “The Wine And The Cantos”

NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 7 (1971)

NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 8 (1971)

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 71
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1971

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 73
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1971

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 77
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1971

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 78
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., Apr 1-15, 1971

NOLA EXPRESS, No. 81
New Orleans: Southern Louisiana Media Corp., 1971

PIX, Vol. 3 (1971)

PULSE, No. 4, edited by Norm Moser
Santa Fe: Illuminations Press, Summer-Fall 1971
“A Need For Glue”, “Cancer Of The Eyeball”, “The Grammar Of Life”

QUETZAL, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1971)

ROGUE, No. 29 (1971)

SECOND AEON, No. 13, edited by Peter Finch
Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications, 1971
“Poem For Dante”, “Slim Killers”, “The Conditions”

THE MT. ALVERNO REVIEW, (1971)

THE SERIF, Vol. 8, No. 4, edited by Alex Glidzen and Dean H. Keller
Kent: Kent State University, 1971
“Untitled Essay on d.a. levy”

THROB, No. 1, edited by F. A. Nettlebeck
Manhattan Beach: Horsehead Nebula Press, 1971
“Bug”, “Summer”, “The Elephants”

THROB, No. 2, edited by F. A. Nettlebeck
Manhattan Beach: Horsehead Nebula Press, 1971
“Charles Bukowski Answers 10 Easy Questions”

UNMUZZLED OX, Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by Michael Andre
New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1971
“Poem”, “Tragedy Is My Bacon”

VAGABOND, No. 10, edited by John Bennett
San Francisco: Vagabond Press, 1971

VAGABOND, No. 11, edited by John Bennett
San Francisco: Vagabond Press, 1971

VAGABOND, No. 12, edited by John Bennett
Redwood City: Vagabond Press, 1971

WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 41 (1971)

WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 42 (1971)

WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 43 (1971)

WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 44 (1971)

– – – 1972 – – – >

ADAM, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1972)
AMPHORA, No. 8 (1972)
ANTHOLOGY OF L.A. POETS, (1972)
BACHY, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972)
BALONEY STREET, No. 3/4 (1972)
BALONEY STREET, No. 3/4 (1972)
BARTLEBY’S REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972)
CALIFORNIA STATE POETRY SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1972)
CHICAGO REVIEW, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1972)
CORDUROY, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1972)
DOGTOWN, No. 1 (1972)
EVENT, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1972)
EVENT, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1972)
EVENT, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1972)
FERVENT VALLEY, No. 1 (1972)
FERVENT VALLEY, No. 2 (1972)
FLING, No. 3 (1972)
FLING, No. 5 (1972)
FLING, Vol. 14, No. 6 (1972)
HALF N’ HALF, (1972)
HARRISON STREET REVIEW, No. 3 (1972)
HEARSE, No. 17 (1972)
INTREPID, No. 23/24 (1972)
INVISIBLE CITY, No. 4 (1972)
INVISIBLE CITY, No. 7 (1972)
KNIGHT, Vol. 9, No. 7 (1972)
LOS ANGELES FREE PRESS, (1972)
LOS ANGELES FREE PRESS, (1972)
MAG, No. 2 (1972)
MAG, No. 4 (1972)
MAGAZINE, No. 5 (1972)
MINDSCAPES, (1972)
NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 10 (1972)
NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 12 (1972)
NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 9 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 103 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 104 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 108 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 113 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 115 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 116 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 117 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 119 (1972)
NOLA EXPRESS, No. 99 (1972)
PEBBLE, No. 9 (1972)
PIX, Vol. 4, No. 5 (1972)
PIX, Vol. 4, No. 7 (1972)
PIX, Vol. 4, No. 8 (1972)
PURE SMUTTE, No. 1 (1972)
SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW, No. 22 (1972)
SECOND AEON, No. 14 (1972)
SECOND AEON, No. 16/17 (1972)
SECOND COMING, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1972)
SECOND COMING, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1972)
SILVER, (1972)
STONECLOUD, No. 1 (1972)
THE, No. 13 (1972)
THE LITTLE MAGAZINE, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1972)
THE LITTLE MAGAZINE, Vol. 6, No. 2 & 3 (1972)
THE VENICE POETRY COMPANY PRESENTS, (1972)
UNMUZZLED OX, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1972)
UNMUZZLED OX, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1972)
VAGABOND, No. 13 (1972)
VAGABOND, No. 15 (1972)
WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 45 (1972)
WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 46 (1972)
WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 47 (1972)
WORMWOOD REVIEW, No. 48 (1972)

Beatitude

Beatitude—the quintessential Beat magazine—was “edited & produced on a kick or miss basis by a few hardy types who sneak out of alleys near Grant Avenue—the only responsible party being: John Kelly, publisher….” The magazine was founded in 1958 by Kelly, William J. Margolis, and jazz/surrealist poet Bob Kaufman, who said it “was designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific life among the various mendicants, neo-existentialists, christs, poets, painters, musicians and other inhabitants and observers of North Beach.”

Beatitude was initially printed on a mimeo machine at Pierre Delattre’s Bread and Wine Mission. Contributors included Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, ruth weiss, Philip Lamantia, Gregory Corso Richard Brautigan, and the editors, among dozens of others. There are 34 issues in the magazine’s first incarnation.

Magazine Wars

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N

January 18, 2016 jason

Published during the so-called “magazine wars” of the early 1960s, George Stanley’s THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N lasted just one issue. Stan Persky, Lew Ellingham, and Gail Chugg edited M, gathering contributions from a box at Gino & Carlo’s Bar in San Francisco’s North Beach. Richard Duerden was editing FOOT; with Ron Loewinsohn he was also editing THE RIVOLI REVIEW, produced in Duerden’s apartment on Rivoli Street in the Haight-Ashbury district. Loewinsohn and Richard Brautigan soon produced another magazine, CHANGE.

As Ron Loewinsohn recalled, “Everybody seemed to have access to a mimeograph machine. You could then put out your own magazine. This was marvelous: it meant instant publication, instant reaction from people.”

It wasn’t until 1964, that Stan Persksy’s OPEN SPACE took up the publishing necessary to the Jack Spicer circle and its friends…

further reading…

The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N

Published during the so-called “magazine wars” of the early 1960s, George Stanley’s The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N lasted just one issue. Stan Persky, Lew Ellingham, and Gail Chugg edited M, gathering contributions from a box at Gino & Carlo’s Bar in San Francisco’s North Beach. Richard Duerden was editing Foot; with Ron Loewinsohn he was also editing The Rivoli Review, produced in Duerden’s apartment on Rivoli Street in the Haight-Ashbury district. Loewinsohn and Richard Brautigan soon produced another magazine, Change.

It wasn’t until 1964, that Stan Persky’s Open Space took up the publishing necessary to the Jack Spicer circle and its friends…

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST BLOODSUCKER-N, edited by George Stanley
San Francisco: Capitalist Bloodsucker-N, 1962
First edition, corner stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 19 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover art by Fran Herndon.

“The San Francisco Capitalist Blooksucker-N, an amalgam of the San Francisco Capitalist-Bloodsucker, a journal of Marxist opinion, and N — the magazine of the future…”

Contents:
1. Albert J. Rutaro – “Mr. President!”
  Richard Duerden – “Mr. Boswell & Dr. Johnson”
  Robin Blaser – “The Private I”
  Larry Fagin – “New York”
  Larry Fagin – “Rooms”
  Kenneth Rexroth – “The Poetry Festival”
  Ron Loewinsohn – [untitled] “The presses tonight…”
  Tony Sherrod – “nobody there – but the afternoon”
  Maxwell Bodenheim – “End and Beginning”
  John Allen Ryan – “The Time of the Snow Flower”
  James Keilty – “Stürmische Promenade”
  Bob Wrobel – “Puny”
  George Stanley – “Terrorism”
  Robert Reinstein – “Robert Reinstein”
  Fran Herndon – untitled illustration
  Jack Spicer – “Three Marxist Essays”

Jack Spicer Circle

COW (the magazine)

January 16, 2016 jason

Inspired by Stan Persky’s OPEN SPACE, Luther T. Cupp edited COW, which ran for three issues from 1965-1966. Cupp was nicknamed “Link” by Jack Spicer and went by the name Link Martin.

Contributors to this short-lived North Beach magazine include: Lawrence (Larry) Fagin, Stan Persky, Robin Blaser, George Stanley, Harold Dull, Joanne Kyger, Jack Spicer, Ronnie Primack, and others.
(further reading…)

Cow

Inspired by Stan Persky’s OPEN SPACE, Luther T. Cupp edited COW, which ran for three issues from 1965-1966. Cupp was nicknamed “Link” by Jack Spicer and went by the name Link Martin.

1. COW, The San Francisco Magazine of Livestock, No. 1, Cow Soup Issue, edited by Luther T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1965
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contents:
1. Doug Palmer – “Song To: Mr Tambourine Man”
  Deneen Brown – [untitled] “Perhaps it’s a…”
  Lawrence Fagin – [untitled] “So you want to go to space…”
  Stan Persky – “Detective Poem”
  Robin Blaser – “Here, 7/25/65”
  J. Mac Innis – “If Any”
  George Stanley – “Towns”
  Harold Dull – “for Jack”
  Joanne Kyger – “from The Thoughtful Apparitions”
  Jack Spicer – “Dear Sister Mary”
  Ronnie Primack – “Drowning Pool, for Alice”
  Link – “A False Poem of the Renaissance”

2. COW, The Magazine of Afro-Judeo Culture, No. 2, The Un-escalation Issue, edited by Luther T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1965
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contents:
1. Jim Thurber – [untitled] “The moon and I…”
  Jim Thurber – [untitled] “The moon is a trick…”
  Robin Blaser – “A Gift (homage to Creeley)”
  Robin Blaser – “Image Nation 1”
  Stan Persky – “Folk Poem”
  Bill Brodecky – “Flower of Evil”
  Mike Hannon – “Thoughts on a Winter Moon”
  Larry Fagin – “Space Poems”
  Geoff Brown – “Poem to Myself”
  Michael Ratcliffe – “for L.F.”
  Joanne Kyger – [untitled] “I didn’t want to think…”
  Jamie MacInnis – “What Cruel Words Do/ a translation”
  Jamie MacInnis – “Lafayette Park”
  Luis Garcia – “The Argument”
  Luis Garcia – “With a Spoon”
  Luis Garcia – “The Couple”
  J.C. Alexander – “Dear Van Gogh”
  Gail Dusenbery – “Girl against Truck”
  Hune Voelcker – [untitled] “Yet when Rim came…”
  George Stanley – [untitled] “The knotted ropes…”
  Gail Dusenbery – “Peanuts? No. Words.”
  Gail Dusenbery – “Cold Lake Snapshot”

3. COW, No. 3, Pregnant Cow Issue, edited by Luter T. Cupp
San Francisco: Cow, 1966
First edition, side stapled printed wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contents:
1. Bill Deemer and Andrew Hoyem – “The Auto-Biography of L__ A__ L__”
  Stephen Mindel – [untitled] “Lost in the jungle…”
  Stephen Mindel – “Thursday Evening, for Bob White”
  Stephen Mindel – [untitled] “the deer crossed the stream…”
  Marga NewComb – “The Fallen Angel”
  Robin Blaser – “The Black Point”
  Michael Ratcliffe – “Tomorrow’s Another Day”
  H.M. Wickenheiser – [untitled] “Tomb-still repose is split…”
  Jim Semark – “Godzilla”
  Helen Adam – “A Tale of Dew Drops Falling”
  Gordon Gatom – “Trans”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “I feel sympathy…”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “A man will question…”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “Take up your words…”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “Just when I think…”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “A flash of metal…”
  Mike Hannon – [untitled] “adrift awake…”
  SMN – [untitled] “celled you are in postpale…”
  SMN – [untitled] “The poem walks…”
  SMN – “Mordant Manners”
  SMN – [untitled] “Still into us comes…”
  Robin Blaser – “El Desdichado”
  Michael Ratcliffe – “The Happy Ending”

Judson Crews

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Judson Crews, poet, editor, publisher, and book dealer, was born June 30, 1917, in Waco, Texas. Crews received both the B.A. (1941) and M.A. (1944) in Sociology from Baylor University, and during 1946-1947 studied fine arts at Baylor. In addition, Crews did graduate study at the University of Texas, El Paso in 1967. He has worked as an educator at Wharton County Junior College, New Mexico (1967-1970), the University of New Mexico, Gallup Branch (1971-1972), and at the University of Zambia (1974-1978). He has also been involved in social work. After two years in the U. S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, Crews moved his family and business, Motive Press, from Waco, Texas, to Taos, New Mexico, where he began his writing and publishing career in earnest.

Judson Crews was a prominent figure in the Southwest poetry scene as a poet, editor, and publisher of contemporary poetry and art magazines. Crews admittedly wrote under numerous pseudonyms. Of these pseudonyms, Willard Emory Betis, Trumbull Drachler, Cerise Farallon (Mrs. Trumbull Drachler, maiden name Lena Johnston), and Tobi Macadams have been clearly identified. In the instance of these, and possibly many other pseudonymous names, Crews created a fantasy world of writers to encompass, perhaps, the breadth of his literary ambitions.

Crews’ publishing activities began in earnest after his move from Texas to the Taos area. He started the Este Es Press in 1946, which remained in operation until 1966. The little magazines with which he was involved from 1940 to 1966 include The Deer and Dachshund, The Flying Fish, Motive, The Naked Ear, Poetry Taos, Suck-Egg Mule: A Recalcitrant Beast, Taos: A Deluxe Magazine of the Arts, and Vers Libre. Together with Scott Greer, he was co-editor of Crescendo: A Laboratory for Young America, and worked with Jay Waite on Gale. Crews published not only his own chapbooks and magazines but also those of his friends and colleagues, including the Zambian poet Mason Jordan Mason, among others. In conjunction with this printing activity, Crews operated the Motive Book Shop which became a focal point for the dissemination and advocacy of avant-garde poetry, important little magazines and literary reviews, as well as so-called pornographic materials. The material that Crews sold ranged from literary classics such as the works of D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller, to hard-to-obtain domestic and foreign avant-garde journals, and nudist magazines. Crews was also a friend as well as an advocate of Henry Miller and continued to sell Miller’s works after they were banned in the United States.

Judson Crews Checklist:

Section A: Books
Section B: Contributions to Books and Anthologies
Section C: Contributions to Periodicals
Section D: Books Edited and Published
Section E: Periodicals Edited and Published [Naked Ear]

A Select and limited sampling…

Mason Jordan Mason
THE YARDARM OF MURPHEY’S KITE
Ranches of Taos: Motive Press, 1956
First edition, 4to., [48] pp. Introduction by Chris Bjerknes, “Mason Jordan Mason: An Appreciation”. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in blue on front. Additional magazine images throughout. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique. [Some have suggested that Mason Jordan Mason is a pseudonym for Judson Crews who admitedly used several pseudonyms. See biographical sketch.]

Judson Crews, editor
POETRY TAOS, Number One.
Ranches of Taos: n.p., 1957
First edition, 4to., [64] pp. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in blue on front. Numerous similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique. Introduction by Judson Crews. Contributors include: Wolcott Ely, Gaston Criell, William Carlos Williams, Mason Jordan Mason, Robert Creeley, Robert Burdette, Max Fenstein, Hyacinthe Hill, Joseph Foster, Cerise Farallon, Judson Crews, Donn Cantonwine, Murry Moore, Wendell B. Anderson.

Further research and reading:

Biographical information

References consulted:

Anderson, Wendell. THE HEART’S PRECISION (Carson: Dumont Press, 1994)

Taylor, Kent and Alan Horvath. LOOKING FOR D.A. LEVY (RANDOM SIGHTINGS): THE D.A. LEVY BIBLIOGRAPHY, Volume 1 and 2 (Kirpan Press, 2006, 2008)

THE WORMWOOD REVIEW, Issue No. 19 (Storrs: Wormwood Review Press, 1965)

M

The Spicer Circle magazine M appeared in 1962 in the period after J and before Open Space. Edited by poets Lew Ellingham and Stan Persky, the magazine published John Allen Ryan, George Stanley, Heinrich von Kleist (translated by Jim Herndon), Robin Blaser, William McNeill, Jack Moore, Gail Chugg, Bob Conner, David Melville and the editors. Ellingham spent years researching a biography of Spicer, which was eventually co-authored with poet Kevin Killian as Poet Be Like God (Wesleyan, 1998).

M, No. 1, edited by Lew Ellingham and Stan Persky
San Francisco: M, Spring 1962
First edition, side-stapled illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 64 pages, mimeograph printed.

“Contributions may be sent to 4 Harwood Alley of c/o ‘M’ at Gino & Carlo’s Bar, 548 Green Street, San Francisco 11. There is a box in the bar to receive contributions, and the bartender will hold any too large to be placed in the box.”

Contents:
1. George Stanley – [untitled] “Not speaking in human speech…”
  Lewis Ellingham – “Essays on Six Subjects”
  Gail Chugg – “The Avenging Angel”
  anonymous – “The River Bed”
  Stan Persky – “Orpheus Under the Golden Gate Bridge”
  George Stanley – “The Death of Orpheus”
  Gail Chugg – “A Romantical Poem for Leigh Hunt”
  Stan Persky – “Lake”
  Gail Chugg – “The Spell Binders”
  George Stanley – “The Great Wall of Canada”
  anonymous – “The Eagle & The Sperm Whale”
  anonymous – “Alaska, The Beautiful”
  anonymous – “Change”
  Stan Persky – “Twenty Years After”
  Bob Conner – “To an Archaic Apollo”
  anonymous – “The Commendatory”
  anonymous – “The Guardians”
  anonymous – “The Stone Statue”
  Gail Chugg – “A Poem of Granite for Lew”
  Stan Persky – “The Western Buildings”
  Robin Blaser – “The Faerie Queene”
  George Stanley – “The Crazy Bartender”
  John Allen Ryan – “Fresco IV”
  Jack Moore – [untitled] “I try at times…”
  Wm McNeill – “Unyielding Demands”
  Wm McNeill – “Kyoto: A Dream on the Banks of Two Rivers”
  Bill McNeil – “By Heian’s Gate”
  John Allen Ryan – “Convict Creek”
  John Allen Ryan – “Second Annie Poem”
  Heinrich von Kleist, trans. Jim Herndon – “On The Marionette Theatre”
  David Melville – “Dop Dop Dop”

M, No. 2, edited by Lew Ellingham
San Francisco: M, 1962
First edition, side-stapled illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 48 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover illustration by Paul Alexander.

“This is the second issue, published on a summer holiday.”

Contents:
1. Bill Roberts – “The Dwarf’s Handshake”
  Jim Alexander – [untitled] “Promytheus wd hav askd…”
  Larry Fagin – [untitled] “Though we come back…”
  Helen Adam – “Memory”
  Jack Flynn – “Jed”
  Ruben Dario, trans. John Allen Ryan – “Cleopompa and Heliodemus”
  Stan Persky – “The Astronomer”
  Larry Fagin – “For Bill”
  Ebbe Borregaard – “October Seventh Poem”
  Jim Alexander – “Melody of Triumverates”
  Bill Roberts – “The Tower and the Cross”
  John Allen Ryan – “The Gleaners”
  Tony Sherrod – [untitled] “Beneath one thigh…”
  Parker Hodges – “Irresistably, the Birds”
  Lewis Ellingham – “Poem for S.”
  Larry Fagin – [untitled] “No don’t dead hide my dying giving…”

The Rivoli Review

The Rivoli Review, Vol. Zero, No. One, edited by Richard Duerden
San Francisco: The Rivoli Review 1963

Side-stapled illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 24 pages, mimeograph printed. Cover illustration by Jess Collins.

Contributors:
Ford Madox Ford – “Meary Walker”
Robert Duncan – “Weaving the Design”
James Koller – [untitled] “mottled brown birds…”
Richard Duerden – “Seven: #2 La Martine Place”
Denise Levertov – “Hypocrite Women”
Lynn Lonidier – “Chagall and Bella”
Ron Loewinsohn – “Art for Art’s Sake”, “The Rain, The Rain”
Gerald Gilbert – [untitled] “Sunshine…”
Lorenzo Thomas – “Grass”, “West”
Robert Peterson – “Critical Times”
Ron Loewinsohn – “Fuck You Roger Maris”
Philip Whalen – “Plums, Metaphysics, An Investigation, A Visit and a Short Funeral Ode”
Ron Loewinsohn – “It is to be Bathed in Light”

The Rivoli Review, Vol. Zero, No. Two, edited by Richard Duerden
San Francisco: The Rivoli Review 1964

Side-stapled illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 14″, 30 pages, mimeograph printed.

Contributors:
James Koller – “The People are Coming”
Ron Loewinsohn – “A Place to Go”
Jess Collins – “Song of the Pied Parrot”
Lew Brown – “from Lionel”
Deneen Brown – “Azalea Poem”
George Stanley – “Argus”
Robert Duncan – “Passages III”, “Passages 3-4”
Richard Duerden – “Silence, and Katharsis”
Lew Brown – “The Broadjump”, “from Lionel”
Jack Anderson – “The Scale of It”
Richard Duerden – “The Sonata”
Jack Anderson – “Man in a Doorway”
Gerard Malanga – “Final Sonnet XC”

Charles Bukowski: Broadsides

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SECTION B:
This index includes broadsides featuring poems and stories from the 1940’s to the late 1960’s: from Bukowski’s first appearance to roughly the time that his work started being published in collected volumes by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press; the period of time covered by Sanford Dorbin’s Bibliography.

1. Bukowski, Charles. 20 TANKS FROM KASSELDOWN
First edition:
Washington D.C.: Black Sun Press, Spring 1946
Broadside, 12″ x 16″, (c. 1000 copies). Published as part of PORTFOLIO AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, No. 3, edited by Caresse Crosby.
(Dorbin D2, Krumhansl 1)

2. Bukowski, Charles. HIS WIFE, THE PAINTER
First edition:
Eureka: Hearse Press, June 1960
Broadside, 5″ x 11″, (c. 201 copies), letterpress printed. Published as Hearse Broadside No. 1.
(Dorbin B1 and C248, Krumhansl 2 and 14a)

Note: according to Dorbin [see Dorbin B1], there were variant examples on paper without the blindstamp (Strathmore Artist) of this and three other Bukowski broadsides later assembled as part of Coffin, No.1. He believed that all could have been printed on scrap stock.

Note: according to Krumhansl, “201 copies were published 16 June 1960, 50 of which were distributed to various poets and friends of E.V. Griffith, publisher of Hearse Press. 150 copies were included in Coffin 1 and the remaining copy was used for the offset paste-up of Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail.”

3. Bukowski, Charles. THE PRIEST AND THE MATADOR *
First edition:
n.p.: privately printed, 1962
Broadside, 8.5″ x 11″, offset printed.
(Dorbin B4, Krumhansl 10)

Note: according to Krumhansl, “Published sometime in 1962. Bukowski believed that this item was produced by students at Northwestern or Purdue. Dorbin could not verify this information but ascertained that it was picked up by some mid-western area students after the publication of Run with the Hunted in 1962.”

4. Bukowski, Charles. SAME OLD THING, SHAKESPEARE THROUGH MAILER
First edition:
Storrs: Wormwood Review, 1963
Broadside, 8.5″ x 11″, offset printed.
(not in Dorbin, Krumhansl 11)

Note: an offprint of pages 2 and 3 from The Wormwood Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Issue 11, edited by Marvin Malone (Storrs: The Wormwood Review, November 1963).

Note: according to Krumhansl, “500 copies, of which 29 were signed and numbered, were issued gratis sometime in 1963”.

5. Bukowski, Charles. THE PAPER ON THE FLOOR
First edition:
Eureka: Hearse Press, 1964
Folded broadside, 7″ x 11″ sheet folded once to make four pages, (151 copies), letterpress printed. Published as part of Coffin, No. 1, edited by E.V. Griffith.
(Dorbin C250, Krumhansl 14b)

Note: according to Krumhansl, “151 copies were published in 1964, 150 of which were laid into the portfolio [Coffin, No. 1] and one used in the offset paste-up of Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail“.

6. Bukowski, Charles. THE OLD MAN ON THE CORNER
First edition:
Eureka: Hearse Press, 1964
Broadside, 4″ x 11″, (150 copies), letterpress printed. Published as part of Coffin, No. 1, edited by E.V. Griffith.
(Dorbin C249, Krumhansl 14c)

7. Bukowski, Charles. WASTE BASKET
First edition:
Eureka: Hearse Press, 1964
Broadside, 5″ x 6″, (150 copies), letterpress printed. Published as part of Coffin, No. 1, edited by E.V. Griffith.
(Dorbin C251, Krumhansl 14d)

8. Bukowski, Charles. TRUE STORY *
First edition:
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966
Broadside, 10″ x 14.5″, 30 copies, letterpress printed by Philip Klein.
(Dorbin B6, Krumhansl 18)

Note: according to Krumhansl, “30 signed copies were published April 1966: 27 copies numbered 1-27 plus 3 copies lettered A-C. Designed and printed by Philip Klein.”

9. Bukowski, Charles. ON GOING OUT TO GET THE MAIL *
First edition:
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966
Broadside, 10″ x 14.5″, 30 copies, letterpress printed by Philip Klein.
(Dorbin B7, Krumhansl 19)

Note: according to Krumhansl: “30 signed copies were published May 1966: 27 copies numbered 1-27 plus 3 copies lettered A-C. Designed and printed by Philip Klein.”

10. Bukowski, Charles. TO KISS THE WORMS GOODNIGHT *
First edition:
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966
Broadside, 10″ x 14.5″, 30 copies, letterpress printed by Philip Klein.
(Dorbin B8, Krumhansl 20)

Note: according to Krumhansl: “30 signed copies were published June 1966: 27 copies numbered 1-27 plus 3 copies lettered A-C. Designed and printed by Philip Klein.”

11. Bukowski, Charles. THE GIRLS / FOR THE MERCY MONGERS *
First edition:
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966
Broadside, 10″ x 14.5″, 30 copies, letterpress printed by Philip Klein.
(Dorbin B9, Krumhansl 22)

Note: according to Krumhansl: “30 signed copies were published July 1966: 27 copies numbered 1-27 plus 3 copies lettered A-C. Designed and printed by Philip Klein.”

12. Bukowski, Charles. THE FLOWER LOVER / I MET A GENIUS *
First edition:
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966
Broadside, 10″ x 14.5″, 30 copies, letterpress printed by Philip Klein.
(Dorbin B6, Krumhansl 24)

Note: according to Krumhansl: “30 signed copies were published October 1966: 27 copies numbered 1-27 plus 3 copies lettered A-C. Designed and printed by Philip Klein.”

13. Bukowski, Charles. THE NATURE OF THE THREAT AND WHAT TO DO
First edition:
San Francisco: Nevada/Tattoo Press, 1969
Broadside, 8.5″ x 11″, offset printed. Published as part of Peace Amongst the Ants
(Krumhansl 33)

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