Published between 1968 and 1975, Adventures in Poetry was edited by poet Larry Fagin and printed and assembled at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Featured in its pages is writing by many poets associated with the first and second generation of the New York School. Surreal and often playful, the work provides a valuable access point into a vibrant and social community of writers who overlapped both in life and on the page.

Alongside poetry and art, Adventures in Poetry also includes a number of journal, diary, and travelogue entries.

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1. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 1, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, March 1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed and photo-illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 70 pages. Cover by Ron Padgett. Illustrations by George Schneeman and Joe Brainard

• Contents:
  1. Joe Ceravolo – “Night Ocean”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Night Swim”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Consolation”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Panorama”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Separation”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Forgive Me”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Holiday Dinner”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Fog”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Sleep”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Jungle Love”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Nothing”
     James Schuyler – “Amy Lowell Thoughts”
     James Schuyler – “Milk”
     Ted Berrigan – “For Tom Veitch”
     Dick Gallup – “The Boot-Blacks, A Play in Three Acts”
     Anne Waldman – “Economy”
     Anne Waldman – “Getting Light”
     Ron Padgett – “8 Ball”
     Johnny Stanton – “from Mangled Hands”
     Tom Clark – “Bijous”
     John Giorno – “Flavor Grabber”
     Ted Berrigan – “from Clear the Range”
     Guillaume Apollinaire – “Julie or The Rose” (trans. Christine Grodzicki and George Tysh)
     Dick Gallup – “La Boheme”

2. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 2, edited by Larry Fagin
San Francisco: Adventures in Poetry, July 1968

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 90 pages. Cover by Joe Brainard. Illustrations by Leon, George Schneeman, Ron Padgett, and Bob Jenney.

• Contents:
  1. Edwin Denby – “from Scream In A Cave”
     Beaumont & Beaumont – “from Furtive Days”
     Joe Brainard – “Jamaica Diary”
     Lewis Warsh – “New York Diary”
     Tom Clark – “from Riot the Garrick Theatre”
     Dick Gallup – “Life of Tom Veitch”
     Tom Veitch – “from The Transfigured”
     Johnny Stanton – “from The Jissom Trail”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Peaches Littlejohn”
     Anne Waldman – “from The Egypt Journal”
     Ron Padgett & Tom Veitch – “from Star Gut”
     Jim Carroll – “from a diary”
     Ron Padgett – “The New Plagiarism”
     Bill Berkson – “In the American Rain”
     Larry Fagin – “Two Dog Stories”
     John Ashbery & James Schuyler – “from Nest of Ninnies”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Breach Baby”
     Michael Brownstein – “Kites”
     Francis Picabia – “5 Minute Intermission”
     Tom Disch – “Sinking Into Trouble”
     Johnny Stanton – “In the Moonlight”
     Pierre Reiter – “Craze Man Whiliiker”

3. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 3, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, January 1969

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 58 pages, mimeograph printed by Don Santina at the San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Program. Cover by Gordon Baldwin.

• Contents:
  1. Clark Coolidge – “Amount”
     Francis Picabia – “Drawings by the Girl without a Mother” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Tom Veitch – “from The Luis Armed Story”
     Aram Saroyan – “Electric Poetry”

4. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 4, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1969

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 56 pages. Cover by Ed Ruscha. Illustration by Joe Brainard.

• Contents:
  1. Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Thirty-five is gone…”
     Ted Berrigan – [untitled] “Bobbie, when I punch you…”
     Ted Berrigan – “Entrance”
     Ted Berrigan – “El Greco”
     Ted Berrigan – “It’s Important”
     Ted Berrigan – “Grey Morning”
     Ted Berrigan – “Hash for Breakfast”
     Ted Berrigan – “Dial-A-Poem”
     Ted Berrigan – “Cock of the Walk”
     Ted Berrigan – “Anne’s Birthday: April 2nd 1968”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Waking Up”
     John Giorno – “Cunt”
     Lewis Warsh – “Questions of Travel”
     Lewis Warsh – [untitled] “The woodchuck waddles away…”
     Lewis Warsh – “Hatred”
     Lewis Warsh – “Two People”
     Lewis Warsh – “Drops”
     Dick Gallup – “Eskimoes Again”
     Dick Gallup – “Nite Light”
     Dick Gallup – “Add Water to this Urn”
     Dick Gallup – “The Sharpest Knives in the World”
     Dick Gallup – “Life Says OK”
     Dick Gallup – “Dive Bomber”
     Dick Gallup – “Chicken Wire”
     Michael Brownstein – “The Fledgling”
     Michael Brownstein – “The Booklets”
     Michael Brownstein – “In and Out of Paris”
     Michael Brownstein – “In Search of the Miraculous, for Dick Gallup”
     Michael Brownstein – “Sonnet”
     Ted Berrigan – “Babe Rainbow”

5. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 5, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, January 1970

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 124 pages. Cover by George Schneeman. Illustrations by Joe Brainard.

• Contents:
  1. Tony Towle – “The Insects”
     Tony Towle – “Snow”
     Tony Towle – “We Plunged into the Western Hemisphere”
     Tony Towle – “Poem, the Dramatic Monologue”
     Tony Towle – “Ballade”
     Tony Towle – “Barbarossa”
     Tony Towle – [untitled] “A skylight of wire…”
     Tony Towle – [untitled] “Necessities are lacking…”
     Tony Towle – “Sunday”
     Tony Towle – “Ode”
     Tony Towle – “Yeats”
     Tony Towle – “On Water Island”
     Tony Towle – “Lines”
     Tony Towle – “Scenes from the Life of Christ”
     Ron Padgett – “Reading Proust”
     Frank O’HAra – “To the Poem”
     Frank O’HAra – “Lisztiana”
     Frank O’HAra – “To Edwin Denby”
     Frank O’HAra – [untitled] “There’s nothing worse…”
     Frank O’HAra – “The Arboretum”
     Frank O’HAra – “A Homage”
     Frank O’HAra – “Spleen”
     Frank O’HAra – [untitled] “The stars are tighter…”
     Frank O’HAra – “A Quiet Poem”
     Bill Berkson – “From a Childhood, for Joe Brainard”
     Bill Berkson – “Dangerous Enemies”
     Bill Berkson – “Tastes”
     Anne Waldman – “Brinks of Fame”
     Ron Padgett – “Wax Museum”
     Aram Saroyan – “Introduction”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Everybody loves…”
     Aram Saroyan – “Gailyn”
     Ted Berrigan – “Tough Brown Coat, for Jim Carroll”
     Ted Berrigan – “To Anne”
     Ted Berrigan – “Like Poem, to Joan Fagin”
     Ted Berrigan – “In Bed”
     Ted Berrigan – “Life in the Future, for Donna”
     Ted Berrigan – “Prose & Poetry, to Alice”
     Ted Berrigan – “Hall of Mirrors, for Kristin Lems”
     Ted Berrigan – “To Southhampton”
     Ted Berrigan – “Ann Arbor Song”
     Joe Brainard – “The Banana Book”
     Ron Padgett – “A Whiff of Mint”
     Richard Fields – “The Yellow-Breasted Bird”
     John Godfrey – [untitled] “The gravity of our situation…”
     John Godfrey – “Rolling April”
     John Godfrey – “First Taste”
     John Godfrey – “Year Out”
     John Godfrey – “A Woman More Graced”
     John Godfrey – “Touch”
     John Godfrey – “Rain Waste”
     Anne Waldman – “Under the Influence of”
     Anne Waldman – “Up Here, as in India”
     Aram Saroyan – “Pool of Fluff”
     Aram Saroyan – “A Cartoon of Energy”
     Aram Saroyan – “Aunt & Uncle”
     Aram Saroyan – “My Orchestra is Ready”
     Aram Saroyan – “A Joint open Hearing”
     Harris Schiff – “Cross Country”
     Ron Padgett – “The Story of St-Pol Roux”
     Ted Berrigan – “London Air”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Chinese Creep”
     Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “one bow who…”
     Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “for set via…”
     Charles North – “After Vaughan”
     John Ashbery – “100 Multiple-Choice Questions”
     Jim Brodey – “Graveside”
     Jim Brodey – “God Help Us”
     Jim Brodey – “Red Lilac”
     Jim Brodey – “Heart-Send”
     Jim Brodey – “Heartfield, to Ron Cooper”
     Jim Brodey – “Thought-Cycle”
     Jim Brodey – “Imitation Brodey”
     Ted Greenwald – “Chat”
     Ted Greenwald – “The Such Thing”
     Ted Greenwald – “Tropical Dispatch, for Peter S.”
     Ted Greenwald – “Having a Wonderful Time”
     Ron Padgett – “Obscure Destinies”

6. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 6, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, June 1970

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 64 pages. Cover by Jim Dine.

• Contents:
  1. Michael Brownstein – “Something for Everybody
     James Schuyler – “Buildings”
     James Schuyler – “Sometimes”
     James Schuyler – “Alice Faye at Ruby Foo’s”
     James Schuyler – “An East Window on Elizabeth Street, for Bob Dash”
     James Schuyler – “Spring”
     James Schuyler – “Scarlet Tanager”
     James Schuyler – [untitled] “Gulls loudly insist…”
     James Schuyler – [untitled] “Swimming in the memorial park pond…”
     James Schuyler – “Closed Gentian Distances”
     James Schuyler – “A Sun Cab”
     Scott Cohen – “Car”
     Scott Cohen – “Jane”
     Scott Cohen – “Bill Monroe’s Instrumentds”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Night Again”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Girl”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Night Letter”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “God”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “M”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “For the Night Riders”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “To Speak is to Lie”
     Tom Clark – “A Sailor’s Life”
     Hiton Obenzinger – “Motto over a Dorr”
     Hiton Obenzinger – “From a Fork”
     Michel Brownstein – “Footprints on the Moon”
     Frank Lima – “Underground with the Oriole, for Joe & Rosemary”
     Frank Lima – “Salad Exit”
     Frank Lima – “February ’68”
     Frank Lima – “Demitasse, for Patsy Southgate”
     Frank Lima – “Prospero”
     Frank Lima – “Harbor”
     Trevor Winkfield – Robinson Crusoe”
     Blaise Cendrars – “Roof Garden” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “On the Hudson” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Amphitryon” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Office” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Girl” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Young Man” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Work” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Trestle Work” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “The Thousand Islands” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Blaise Cendrars – “Laboratory” (trans. Ron Padgett)
     Tom Veitch – “Cooked Zeros”

7. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 7, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, February 1971

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 62 pages. Cover by Aram Saroyan.

• Contents:
  1. Aram Saroyan – “from The Letter Book”
     John Giorno – “from The American Book of the Dead”
     Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “ace act ado”
     Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “gee get gib”
     Clark Coolidge – [untitled] “pro pea pee”
     Joe Brainard – “Muy Malo”
     Joe Brainard – “At Day’s End”
     Joe Brainard – “Short Story”
     Joe Brainard – “1970”
     Joe Brainard – “Real Life”
     Joe Brainard – “Art”
     Joe Brainard – “Henry”
     Joe Brainard – “Rim of the Desert”
     Joe Brainard – “Life”
     Joe Brainard – “How to Be Alone Again”
     Joe Brainard – “Friday, Nov. 27, 1970”
     Joe Brainard – “Thursday, December 8, 1970”
     Vincent Katz – “Pro Football”
     Bernadette Mayer – “from Moving”
     Byrd Hoffman – [untitled] “And now in saying something…”

8. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 8, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1971

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 60 pages. Cover by Rudy Burckhardt.

• Contents:
  1. Dick Gallup – “Charged Particles”
     Lewis Warsh – “True Colors”
     Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard – “Cherry”
     Steve Malmude – “To Portland”
     Andrei Codrescu – “Unchosen Things”
     Andrei Codrescu – “Thru a Grill”
     Andrei Codrescu – “Comedia dell’Arte”
     Andrei Codrescu – “To your Father”
     Andrei Codrescu – “Cossey at the Bots”
     Andrei Codrescu – “Debts”
     Richard Kolmar – “Voluntary”
     Richard Kolmar – “Part of an Elegy”
     Glen Baxter – “Symbar”
     Glen Baxter – “From the Barge”
     Glen Baxter – “Apponitmantes”
     Glen Baxter – “Ack-acks”
     Glen Baxter – “Utopia Parkway”
     Philip Whalen – “Scenes of Life at the Capital”

9. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 9, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Spring 1972

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 125 pages. Cover art by John Giorno.

• Contents:
  1. Jennifer Bartlett – “from Jennifer Losch: A Biography”
     Glen Baxter – “Morbihan”
     Glen Baxter – “Chauderon”
     Joe Brainard – “Poem” (“Kaleidoscopic umbrellas…”)
     Rebecca Brown – “The Day I Crossed Traffic against Traffic”
     Rebecca Brown – “Dissatisfaction”
     Michael Brownstein – “What America’s Thinking”
     William Burroughs – “Distant Heels”
     Clark Coolidge – “Basil Rathbone’s Bathrobe”
     Edwin Denby – “Army Songs”
     Jim Dine – “The Short History of New York”
     Joe Brainard – “A True Story”
     Louis Eilshemius – “An Unusual Inventor”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Eventual Bruises”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Ground Hog Day Pensee”
     Mary Ferrari – “The Blue and Yellow”
     Gilbert and George – “We are only Human Sculptors”
     Allen Ginsberg – “New England in hte Fall: Autumn Gold”
     John Godfrey – “Idiots”
     John Godfrey – “Sympathetic Fallacy”
     Joe Brainard – “No Story”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “shut down…”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “our faces…”
     Ted Greenwald – “Comb”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “poems pile up…”
     Alice Hedges – “The Door”
     John Koethe – “Some”
     Valery Larbaud – “La Neige”
     Glen Baxter – “Glove Soup”
     Steve Malmude – “Companion Poems”
     Steve Malmude – “Stove & Lamp”
     Harry Mathews – “The Dream-Work”
     Bernadette Mayer – “3 X’s”
     Pat Nolan – “Vision”
     Pat Nolan – “A Controlled Habit”
     Joe Brainard – “What’s Cooking”
     Charles North – “To The Book”
     Charles North – “Elizabethan and Nova Scotian Music”
     Charles North – “Naming Colors”
     Hilton Obenzinger – “The Brunt”
     Peter Orlovsky – [untitled] “A Year and 1/2 Ago”
     Maureen Owen – “Digging Sassafras in July”
     Maureen Owen – “O Propitious Constellation!”
     Ron Padgett – “Gentlemen Prefer Carrots”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “Vacuum”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “The Bullring”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “Popcorn”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “Coffee Service”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “Heh-Heh”
     Jonathan Rosenstein – “Charm”
     Harris Schiff – [untitled] “twilight…”
     Harris Schiff – [untitled] “the battery…”
     Harris Schiff – “Memorial for Paul Blackburn Oct 31 1971”
     Harris Schiff – “Too, for Bernadette Mayer”
     Joe Brainard – “Grandmother”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Theater”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Great Poet”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Trepanation”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Russian Escape”
     Peter Schjeldahl – “Dynamite”
     James Schuyler – “A Vermont Diary”
     Richard Snow – “Philo Vance”
     George Stanley – “Pitchfork”
     Tony Towle – “On Spring Street”
     Anne Waldman – “Little Poem in Search of the Past”
     Anne Waldman – [untitled] “if you do this…”
     Lewis Warsh – “Single File”
     Joseph White – [untitled] “turn the day over…”
     Joseph White – [untitled] “while tearing up the platform…”
     Joseph White – [untitled] “out to the corner…”
     Joseph White – [untitled] “the back of a drawing…”
     B. Wilkie – “Notes on My Work, 1971”
     Joe Brainard – “Poem” (“Roses are red…”)

10. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 10, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages. Cover taken from a “Tijuana Bible”.

• Contents:
  1. This is the anonymous issue published without author, editor, publication and publisher names.

11. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 11, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Spring 1974

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 121 pages. Cover art by Rory McEwen.

• Contents:
  1. Anne Waldman – “Fast Speaking Woman”
     Michael McClure – “from Fleas”
     Fielding Dawson – “from Oz – with an X”
     Clark Coolidge – “Coda to The Maintains”
     Bruce Boyd – “Introduction”
     Ron Padgett – “Wilson ’57”
     John Wieners – “A Superficial Estimation”
     Tony Towle – “Autobiography”
     Joe Ceravolo – “Water Over Stones”
     James Schuyler – “A Treasury of Birthday Thoughts”
     Ebbe Borregaard – “October Seventh Poem”
     Guillaume Apollinaire – “Zone” (trans. Ron Padgett)

12. ADVENTURES IN POETRY, No. 12, edited by Larry Fagin
New York: Adventures in Poetry, Summer 1975

First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated wrappers, 8.5″ x 11″, 94 pages. Cover art unattributed.

• Contents:
  1. Gregory Corso – “Verse”
     Ron Padgett – “Excerpt from a Work in Progress” (“And they’re off…”)
     Alverna Brodecky – “Letter”
     Frank O’Hara – “To Norman, En Voyage”
     Joseph LeSueur – “A Note on the Preceding Poem”
     Jack Spicer – “Babel 3”
     Jack Spicer – “Dardenella”
     Jack Spicer – “Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes”
     Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Lack of oxygen…”
     Jack Spicer – [untitled] “Invisible zombies…”
     Jack Spicer – “Spider Song”
     John Wieners – “There are Very Important Minutes”
     John Wieners – “I’ve Lived Here Longer than Anybody Else…”
     John Wieners – “Greer”
     John Wieners – “Home Surgery at Merchant Marine”
     Bobbie Louise Hawkins – “Phone Call”
     Bobbie Louise Hawkins – “Conversation between Five Women”
     Charles North – “Two Pathetic Songs”
     Steve Malmude – “Dedication”
     Steve Malmude – “Duchess”
     John Ashbury – “Once Upon a Time”
     Stanley Kunitz – “A Blessing of Women”
     David Meltzer – “from Harps”
     Mary Ferrari – “Fiery Easter, 1972”
     Mary Ferrari – “The Earth Within”
     Mary Ferrari – “The Lamp”
     Kenneth Koch – “The Apes of Banzona”
     Red Grooms – [untitled] “House painted…”
     Red Grooms – [untitled] “Cloud look down…”
     Bill Zavatsky – “Tonight”
     Bill Zavatsky – “Announcement”
     Bill Zavatsky – “The New Capitalism”
     Bill Zavatsky – “The Influence of Flowers”
     Helen Adam – “Cheerless Junkie’s Song”
     Allen Ginsberg – “End Vietnam War”
     Ted Greenwald – “The Coast”
     Tony Towle – “Quotes”
     Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Tenement”
     Alfred Starr Hamilton – “The Flag”
     Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Pink Ants”
     Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Lime Honey”
     Alfred Starr Hamilton – “Night”
     Lewis MacAdams – “Ohio Blue Tip”
     Ed Sanders – “The Critic”
     Ed Sanders – “The 34th Year”
     John Godfrey – “Morning Poem”
     John Godfrey – “Evening Song”
     Valery Larbaud – “Private Devotions” (tans. Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky)
     Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky – “Notes”
     Michael Palmer – “Without Music, 2”
     Dale Herd – “My Old Man”
     Dale Herd – “Blood”
     Dale Herd – “Welfare”
     Simon Schuchat – “Poem” (“the leaves are turning…”)
     Carter Ratcliff – “Arrivederci, Modernismo”
     Son House – “Dry Spell Blues”

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