Most of the work examined here is from the contemporary period  with a particular focus on the post war period: the period in time from the end of World War II up until, roughly, the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The categorization of the writers, poets, artists, printers and their work here isn’t meant to be definitive, rather it’s a way to simply organize an enormous amount of information and help form some sort of story-line. Certainly there are folks here whose work started before some of the categories existed in the common lexicon and continued long after a ‘scene’ faded away. It’s not the intent of the work here to presuppose intent or oversimplify the efforts of these folks. As new pieces are added, parts will be reorganized, edited and rearranged… stay tuned…

* Aside from primary resources, references consulted can be found here

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A brief history of the mimeograph “revolution”

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+ California – The San Francisco Renaissance, some Beats, outsiders, hippies, and others

Artists:
· Robert Alexander
· Wallace Berman
· Cameron
· Jess Collins
· Bruce Conner
· Jay DeFeo
· George Herms
· Fran Herndon
· Robert Lavigne

Poets & Writers:
The Berkeley, then San Francisco Renaissance
· Helen Adam
· Robin Blaser
· Ebbe Borregaard
· Richard Duerden
· Robert Duncan
· William Everson
· Philip Lamantia
· Jack Spicer
· George Stanley
· Lew Welch

· Richard Brautigan
· Ron Loewinsohn
· Michael McClure
· David Meltzer
· Gary Snyder
· Philip Whalen

· Charles Bukowski
· Carl Larsen
· James M. Singer, Jr.

· Richard Krech

Presses:
· City Lights (1955-)
· Hearse Press (1957-1970)
· White Rabbit Press (1957-1972)
· Auerhahn Press (1958-1963)
· Enkidu Surrogate (1959)
· Oannes Press (1963)
· Oyez Press (1963-1968)
· Four Seasons Foundation (1964-1985)
· Black Sparrow Press (1966-2002)
· Capricorn Press (1969-1972)

Periodicals:
· Ark (Nos. 1-3, 1947-1957)
· Avalanche (Nos. 1-6, 1966-1969)
· Beatitude (Nos. 1-34, 1959-1987)
· Berkeley Miscellany (Nos. 1-2, 1948-1949)
· Change (No. 1, 1963)
· Circle (Nos. 1-10, 1944-1948)
· City Lights (Nos. 1-5, 1952-1955)
· City Lights Journal (Nos. 1-4, 1963-1966)
· Contour (Nos. 1-4, 1947-1948)
· Cow (Nos. 1-3, 1965-1966)
· Dust (Nos. 1-17
· Ephemeris (Nos. 1-3, c.1969-1970)
· Foot (Nos. 1-8, 1962-1980)
· Gryphon (Nos. 1-3, 1950-1951)
· Hearse (Nos. 1-17, 1957-1972)
· J (Nos. 1-8, 1959-1961)
· M (Nos. 1-2, 1962)
· Measure (Nos. 1-3, 1957-1962)
· Mithrander (No. 1, 1963)
· The Needle (Nos. 1-3, 1956)
· Now (Nos. 1-3, 1963-1965)
· Open Space (Nos. 0-12, 1964)
· Out of Sight (nos. 1-2, 1966)
· The Pacific Nation (Nos. 1-2, 1967-1969)
· R.C. Lion (Nos. 1-3, 1966-1967)
· Renaissance (Nos. 1-4, 1961-1962)
· The Rivoli Review (Nos. 1-2, 1963-1964)
· The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N (No. 1, 1962)
· Semina (Nos. 1-9, 1955-1962)
· Wild Dog (Nos. 1-21, 1963-1966)

Galleries:
· Batman Gallery
· Dilexi Gallery
· Ferus Gallery
· Six Gallery

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+ The Beats, The New York School(s), some outsiders, and others

• Poets & Writers:
  • · William S. Burroughs
    • – Brion Gysin
      • · Cut-up Method
    • – related periodicals:
      • · Big Table (Nos. 1-5, 1959-1960)
        · Bulletin from Nothing (Nos. 1-3, 1965)
        · Cleft (Nos. 1-2, 1963-1964)
        · Gnaoua (No. 1, 1964)
        · Insect Trust Gazette (Nos. 1-3, 1964-1968)
        · Locus Solus (Nos. 1-5, 1961-1962)
        · My Own Mag (Nos. 1-17, 1963-1966)
        · New Departures (Nos. 1-16, 1959-1984)
        · Project Sigma (Nos. 1-40 [?], 1964-1966)
        · Residu (Nos. 1-2, 1965-1966)
        · Rhinozeros (Nos. 1-10, 1960-1965)
        · San Francisco Earthquake (Nos. 1-5, 1967-1969)
        · Sidewalk (Nos. 1-2, 1960)
        · Spero (Nos. 1-2, 1965-1966)

• • · Gregory Corso
    · Allen Ginsberg
    · Jack Kerouac

• • The Tulsa School
    · Ted Berrigan
    · Joe Brainard
    · Dick Gallup
    · Ron Padgett

• • · Tom Veitch

• • · Piero Heliczer and The Dead Language
    · Angus Maclise
    · Ira Cohen

• • · Bern Porter

• Presses:
  • · 0 To 9 (1967-1969)
    · Adventures in Poetry (1968-1976)
    · Angel Hair Books (1966-1978)
    · Big Sky (1971-1988)
    · Boke Press (1964-1971)
    · Corinth Books (1959-1973)
    · C Press (1963-1978)
    · Fuck You Press (1962-1965)
    · Grove Press (1948- )
    · Kulchur Press (1960-1989)
    · Lines (1965-1967)
    · New Directions (1936- )
    · Poets Press (1963-1969)
    · Siamese Banana (1972-1978)
    · Totem Press (1958-1962)
    · United Artists (1978-1983)
    · Z Press (1973-1987)

• Periodicals:
  • · 0 To 9 (Nos. 1-6, 1967-1969)
    · Adventures in Poetry (Nos. 1-12, 1968-1975)
    · Angel Hair (Nos. 1-6, 1966-1969)
    · Art and Literature (1-12, 1964-1967)
    · Big Sky (Nos. 1-11/12, 1971-1978)
    · Blue Beat (No. 1, 1964)
    · C: A Journal of Poetry (Nos. 1-14, 1963-1966)
    · The Censored Review (No. 1, 1963)
    · Chicago (Nos. 1-9, 1972-1974)
    · Elephant (Nos. 1-3, 1965)
    · Evergreen Review (Nos. 1-97, 1957-1973)
    · The Floating Bear (Nos. 1-37, 1961-1971)
    · Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts (Nos. 1-13, 1962-1965)
    · The Great Society (Nos. 1-2, 1966-1967)
    · Kulchur (Nos. 1-20, 1960-1965)
    · Lines (Nos. 1-6, 1964-1965)
    · Locu Solus (Nos. 1-5, 1961-1962)
    · Mother (Nos. 1-9, 1964-1967)
    · Neon (Nos. 1-4, 1956-1959)
    · Once Series (Nos. 1-12, 1966-1968)
    · The Poetry Project Newsletter (Nos. 1- , 1972- )
    · Telephone (Nos. 1-18, 1969-1984)
    · United Artists (Nos. 1-18, 1977-1983)
    · The White Dove Review (Nos. 1-5, 1959-1960)
    · The World (Nos. 1-58, 1967-2002)
    · Yugen (Nos. 1-8, 1958-1962)
    · Z (Nos. 1-6, 1973-1977)

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+ Black Mountain, Jargon Society

Poets & Writers:
· Charles Olson
· Robert Duncan [see also, San Francisco Renaissance]
· Denise Levertov
· Paul Blackburn
· Robert Creeley
· Paul Carroll
· Larry Eigner
· Edward Dorn
· Jonathan Williams
· Joel Oppenheimer

Objectivists
· Louis Zukofsky
· George Oppen
· Carl Rakosi
· Lorine Niedecker
· Charles Reznikoff

Presses:
· Black Mountain College Print Shop
· The Divers Press (1953-1955)
· The Jargon Society (1951- )
· Migrant Books (1957-1966)

Periodicals:
· Black Mountain Review (Nos. 1-7, 1954-1957)
· Migrant (Nos. 1-8, 1959-1960)
· Origin (First Series: Nos. 1-20, 1951-1957)

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+ The so-called Cleveland School, and related poets, presses, and periodicals

• Poets & Writers:
  • · Russell Atkins
    · T.L. Kryss
    · d.a. levy
    · RJS
    · Kent Taylor
    · Douglas Blazek
    · D.r. Wagner

• Presses:
  • · 7 Flowers Press
    · 400 Rabbit Press
    · Ayizan Press
    · Black Rabbit Press
    · Broken Mimeo Press
    · The Free Lance Press
    · Ghost Press
    · Mimeo Press
    · Open Skull Press
    · press : today : niagara
    · Renegade Press
    · Runcible Spoon
    ·

• Periodicals:
  • · Do-It! (Nos. 1-3, 1966-1967)
    · The Eight Pager (Nos. 1-4, 1966)
    · Free Love Periodically (Nos. 1-2, 1966-1967)
    · Marrahwannah Newsletter (Nos. 1-4, 1967)
    · The Marrahwanna Quarterly (14 issues, 1964-1968)
    · Poets at the Gate (Nos. 1-4, 1966)
    · Quixote (1965-1984)
    · Shit Sheet (Nos. 1-2, 1966)
    · The Silver Cesspool (Nos. 1-5, 1963-1964)
    · Sum (Nos. 1-3, 1966-1968)

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+ Concrete Poetry

· Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press
· Stuart Mills & Tarasque Press
· Cavan McCarthy & Tlaloc

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+ Other places and people

· Judson Crews and company

· Frank Stanford

· Loujon Press
>>– The Outsider (Nos. 1-5, 1961-1968)

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