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:
- 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…”
- Hak and Jean Vogrin – “There’s a Bird in My Attic”
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:
- 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”
- Lyndon Puw – “Sunday Morning”
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:
- 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…”
- D.r. Wagner – “Some of Them Old Songs”