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Do-It

1. DO-IT!, No. 1, edited by Matt Shulman
mags_doit1Omaha: Do-It, 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 16 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed. Cover art by d.a. levy.

  • Contents:
    1. d.a. levy – “The Suburban Prophets”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #8”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #12”
      Allen Ginsberg – “Auto Poesy to Nebraska”
      D.r. Wagner – “from The Septic Kaddish”
      Randy Rhody – “Destination”
      d.a. levy – “Light on, The Old Test (for Charles Olson)”
      John Giorno – “from American Book of the Dead”
      Freda Norton – “They Slaughtered Heaven to Death”
      Randy Rhody – “Dedicated to Darlene”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #5”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #6”
      Clarence Major – “She, America & Death”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #2”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #10”
      Hugh Grayson – [untitled] “She bristled all up and said…”
      d.a. levy – “The Ballad of No Berets”

2. DO-IT!, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Matt Shulman
mags_doit2Omaha: Do-It, August 1966

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 15 leaves printed recto only, mimeograph printed with some offset printed inserts. Published as a “Viet Nam Workbook”.

  • Contents:
    1. Clarence Major – “Viet Nam #3”
      Paul Mariah – “Klyptic Seventy-One”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “I’m an American, I am!”
      Paul Mariah – “Carnal Knowledge”
      d.a. levy – “A Mantra to Protect One from the Viet Cong (North and South)”
      Students for a Democratic Society – [offset printed insert] “National Vietnam Examination”
      W.E. Wyatt – “The Martyr”
      Robert Lowry – “Today is Dying”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #4”
      John Giorno – “from American Eagle”
      d.a. levy – “A Non of Viet Nam Gothic for the Alamo”
      r.j. sigmund – [letter] “Dear local draft board No. 32”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #2”
      Clarence Major – “Vietnam #5”

3. DO-IT!, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Matt Shulman
Omaha: Do-It, January 1967

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated cover, 8.5″ x 11″, 35 leaves printed recto only, spirit-duplicator printed. Published “thru the facilities of Free Love Press”

  • Contents:
    1. Don Thomas – “The Unforgiven”
      Don Richie – “Letter from a Visitor to Greece”
      Rainer Maria Rilke – “Letter to a Young Poet”
      Dennis Saint-Eden –  “Rosary for Lovers”
      David R. Bunch – “Address”
      Peter Wild – “Santa Cruz”
      Matthew Shulman – “1966 #14”
      Matthew Shulman – “1966 #11”
      IBM Computer – [untitled] “Wild red dreams hovered…”
      Ottone M. Riccio – “Office of the Commissioner of Segregation”
      Duane Locke – “Another Image Series: Nos. 9 & 10”
      Ronald Davis – “The Cuzle and the Lokebub”
      Christine E. Fisher – “5 1/2 Years”
      Kell D. Robertson, Jr. – “Go Ahead”
      Matt Shulman – “1966 #13”
      d.a. levy – “Great Man Sleeping in a Closet”
      Harland Ristau – “End of the Line”
      William A. Mathewson – “Two Poets Trying”
      Seamus Finn – “Suck”
      W.E. Wyatt – “On Avalokita’s Enlightenment”
      Edward Oster – “The Hurricane”
      Samuel David Klein – “Ode to Summer”
      Terry T. Tilford – “2nd Poem for Ho Chi Minh”
      D.r. Wagner – [letter to the editor]
      J.T. Hartman – “Tone Poem”
      Raquel Jodorowsky – Johnny Gin”
      Reva Basch – [illustration]
      Randy Rhody – “Sparkling”
      H.B. Kaplan – “Coup D’Etat”
      Albert Drake – “In Dubious Battle”
      Will Inman – “Root of the Rebel Tree”

Poets at the Gate

The Gate was a coffeehouse located in the basement of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. Poems in the first issue were gathered from the first reading in the series which occurred on March 25, 1966. Poems in the third issue were gathered from the second reading in the series which occurred on April 29, 1966. The featured reader was Kent Taylor, and The Jug Band performed. The fourth issue includes poems gathered at the third reading in the series which occurred on July 1, 1966. Featured readers were D.r. Wagner, Joe Walker and rjs. rjs continued publishing poetry from this reading series with Free Love Periodically volumes 1 and 2.

1. POETS AT THE GATE , Vol. 1, No. 1, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, March 1966
First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5” x 11″, 10 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-79)

“…the editors of Weed, Free Lance, The Beginning, American Weave, and The Marrahwannah Quarterly were present… in all 25 poets read to an audience of approx. 100…”

  • Contents:
    1. John Cornillon – “from No Hiding Place”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “my poems are…”
    2. Kent Taylor – [untitled] “tonight some people…”
      Adelaide Simon – “Museum Tour – Piazzetta”
      Grace Butcher – [untitled] “Touched by the shadows…”
      d.a. levy – “from The North American Book of the Dead”
      Joe Walker – “Lake Street Bridge”
      John R. Wherry – “3/5/66”
      Geoffrey A. Cook – “Om Sound”
      Eric K. Albrecht – [untitled] “sometimes i think…”
      Norman Jordan – “Toms”
      E. Hale Chatfield – “In The Navy Yard”
      r.j.s. – “In Co-operation with d.a. levy’s 30 Day War”
      Thom Szuter – “Lost Barn”
      Walter R. Keller – “Christmas in Cleveland”

2. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966First edition, corner-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-80)

  • Contents:
    1. Joe Walker – “1966: First Poem”
      Bennet Hassink – “from The Notebooks of Bennet Hassink”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “I’m an American…”
      Kent Taylor – [untitled] “pieces of me…”
      d.a. levy – “from Cleveland The Rectal Eye Visions”
      d.a. levy – “from The Book of the Dead”
      W.E. Wyatt – “from A Marriage of Words”
      Roger Sauls -“Chikhai Bardo”
      Margaret Randall – “from Unside”
      Thom Szuter – “The Fall Sky”

3. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: d.a. levy, April 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 13 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed by d.a. levy. (T&H P-81)

  • Contents:
    1. E.R. Baxter – “A Son”
      D.r. Wagner – “Holy Man Eating”
      D.r. Wagner – “Letter from the Embalmer”
    2. Tod Roy – “from The Dope Stream Meaning Breathlessness”
      Richard Barker – “Jon Paul Says”
      d.a. levy – [untitled] “it looks like an amphetamine rain…”
      Eric Albrecht – “American Haiku”
      R. Crumb – [comic strip] “Cheesis K. Reist in the Detroit Avenue Story”

4. POETS AT THE GATE, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by d.a. levy
Cleveland: Free Love Press, July 1966
First edition, side-stapled, 8.5″ x 11″, 11 leaves printed recto only, spirit duplicator printed. (T&H P-92)

“On July 1st, 1966, 24 poets disguised as angels came up from hell to visit Cleveland…”

  • Contents:
    1. Kent Taylor – “A Call to Arms”
      D.r. Wagner – “For Barb”
      D.r. Wagner – “Portrait of the Dust Man”
      Randy Rhody – “Orphans”
      E.R. Baxter – “All Returns are not Glorios”
      d.a. levy – “R.E. Vision #7 Part II for Art Kleps”
      J.T. Hartmann – “Viet Diet”
      r.j.s. – “Dogs of Tex Ass”
      Mike Nelson – “Climb”
      Joel Friedman – “A. Dream”
      Dagmar – “The Adventures of Super Gorge”
      J.T. Hartmann – [untitled] “stop and kill and lose…”

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…”