Edited by Aram Saroyan, six issues of Lines were published from New York City between September 1964 and November 1965.

1. LINES, No. 1, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, September 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 38 pages. Cover art by Aram Saroyan.

• Contents:
  1. Louis Zukofsky – [untitled] “Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose”
     John Perreault – “Each Day”
     John Perreault – “Disguised”
     Ronald Bayes – “Passus 25: Branch Line”
     Ted Berrigan – “A Life in Trough (A Dream)”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “with the elaborate framework…”
     Jenni Caldwell – “Day”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “sometimes I think about…”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “that chair your chair…”
     Jenni Caldwell – “Admission”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “If her name offended…”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “i see you like a dissected…”
     Jenni Caldwell – [untitled] “there are not many times”
     Fielding Dawson – “Different People (II)”
     Joel Sloman – “The Casino”
     Joel Sloman – “Folk Song”
     Ronald Caplan – “4/64”
     Richard Kolmar – “Apples
     John Keys – “Key’s Cantos”
     John Keys – [untitled] “returning to some sources via”
     James Brodey – “Jacket for Years”
     James Brodey – “The Buffalo Report”
     Robert Grenier – “Old Blue Sneakers”
     Robert Grenier – “Tune for Beanie”
     Robert Grenier – “Dusk Road Game
     Robert Grenier – “A Sort of Plea”
     Leith Heagy – “Vanguard in Babylon”
     Ken Irby – “Visit”
     Lorenzo Thomas – “The Color Section”
     Lorenzo Thomas – “The Unnatural Life”
     Allen Katzman – “The Act of”
     Archie Minasian – “Beyond the Gage”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “I hear a step…”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “A taste of salt on my lips…”
     Ted Greenwald – [untitled] “Privets come into season…”
     Tony Towle – “World War II”
     Tony Towle – “The Life of the Emotions Has an Attractive Scheme”
     Aram Saroyan – “The Paradox”
     Aram Saroyan – “After Waking at Six P.M.”
     Aram Saroyan – “Bus Ride”

2. LINES, No. 2, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, December 1964
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 38 pages. Cover art by Joe Brainard.

• Contents:
  1. Ron Padgett – “Policeman Dan”
     Aram Saroyan – “N.Y.C.”
     Jonathan Greene – “Dancing all the While to William Kemp”
     Dick Gallup – “Some Feathers ”
     Jack Anderson – “Snorksnot (a play)”
     John Keys – “Chisellers Verse to George Washington Wakoski”
     Joe Brainard – “Story”
     Aram Saroyan – “My Arms are Warm”
     Fielding Dawson – “The Moving Men
     Rich Klein – “The Moon”
     Rich Klein – [untitled] “the fourth world/will…”
     Joe Brainard – “Colgate Dental Cream
     Kenneth Irby – “Slow Dance”
     Ted Berrigan – “Rusty Nails: A collected Prose for Tom Veitch”
     William Dodd – “The Assertion”
     Robert Grenier – “The Light”
     Philip Whalen – “Delusions of Reference”
     Jenni Caldwell – “Poem Dream”
     Ronald Bayes – “Passus 30: Portrait”
     Aram Saroyan – “Placitas to L.Z.”
     Joseph Ceravolo – “Monsters”
     Joseph Ceravolo – “Skies”
     Joseph Ceravolo – “Drunken Winter”
     Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan – “Noh”
     John Perrault – “Boomerang”
     David Shapiro – “Other Friends”
     David M. Cull – “Vine Maple”
     Ron Padgett – “Poem after Reverdy”
     Ron Padgett – “Light in the Nineteeth Century”
     Fielding Dawson – “The Goddess for Gabe Kohn”
     Ted Greenwald – “Lapstrake”
     Richard Kolmar – “Fragments of a Diary”
     Aram Saroyan – “Is”
     Joel Sloman – “Jet to New York”
     Richard Kolmar – “The Song”

3. LINES, No. 3, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, February 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 50 pages.

• Contents:
  1. Philip Whalen – “The Best of It”
     Dick Gallup – “After Alcman”
     Joe Brainard – “Polly”
     Aram Saroyan – “Work Poem”
     Aram Saroyan – “Old Poem”
     Aram Saroyan – “Aces”
     Aram Saroyan – “Well
     Aram Saroyan – “A & P”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Gray pants & the mail…”
     Aram Saroyan – “Go!”
     Dick Gallup – “Eskimos Again”
     Ted Berrigan – “Dick Gallup at 30 (A Play)
     Ted Berrigan – “Corridors of Blood”
     Larry Swingle – “The Cheese #1”
     Ted Greenwald – “Face Lifting”
     Ted Greenwald – “And, Hinges”
     Ted Berrigan – “An Interview with Ron Padgett
     Aram Saroyan and Richard Kolmar – “Stand Up”
     Richard Kolmar – “Denial”
     Richard Kolmar – “Aristophanes’”
     Richard Kolmar – “Amore Traditore”
     Ron Padgett – “Milkman Bill”
     Ted Berrigan – “Prayer”
     Kenward Elmslie – “Song”
     Kenward Elmslie – “The Verandas”
     Tony Towle – “Cable and Telephone”
     Tony Towle – “Poem”
     Lorenzo Thomas – “The Judgment of Paris”
     Lorenzo Thomas – “The Fall of Paris”
     Tom Veitch and William Burroughs – “The Naked Express”
     Ted Berrigan – “The Secret Life of Ford Madox Ford” [“Then I’d Cry”, “Stop Stop Six”, “Reeling Midnight”, “Fauna Time”, “Destination Moon”, “Some Troubles”, “On His Own”, “The Dance of the Broken Bomb”, “Putting Away”, “Owe”, “We Are Jungles”]
     Joe Brainard – “Sunday July the 30th 1964

4. LINES, No. 4, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, March 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 40 pages. Cover art by Richard Kolmar.

• Contents:
  1. Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “A… blue boat…”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “ring of waves…”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Catch 23”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “wind…”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Tug at Bay”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – [untitled] “Green Waters…”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Landsman’s Tea”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Fisherman’s Tea”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “The ABC of Tea”
     Ian Hamilton Finlay – “Funnel Geography”
     Fielding Dawson – “West Side Story”
     Aram Saroyan – “Had West followed up her fine opening lead by dropping”
     E. San Juan, Jr. – “Ballad of the Honeysuckle Rose”
     Aram Saroyan – “Lean”
     John Perreault – “Nothing”
     Tom Veitch – “The Moon Device”
     Richard Kolmar – “Letters to L. H.”
     Richard Kolmar – “This Should Pull Us”
     Joe Brainard – “Poem” [“Dance with me…]
     Ron Padgett – “An Idea that Clara Related to Wallace”
     Aram Saroyan – “Poem” [“Does it ring?”]
     Gerard Malanga – “Gateway to the Palace of Sargon”
     Richard Kolmar – “Sleep”
     Richard Kolmar – “Marion”
     Richard Kolmar – “Games”
     Richard Kolmar – “1234567890”
     Richard Kolmar – “Sentences”
     Richard Kolmar – “Live and Learn”
     Aram Saroyan – “Sentences”
     Aram Saroyan – “From the Village Voice to Ted Berrigan”
     Aram Saroyan – “Nice Ron Thinking”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “My feet are tied to a pebble…”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Andre Breton is…”
     Aram Saroyan – “Two Poems”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “Picture, if you can…”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “WABC”
     Aram Saroyan – “Lovely”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “O . O . O .”

5. LINES, No. 5, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, May 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed and illustrated card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 40 pages. Cover art by Fielding Dawson.

• Contents:
  1. Aram Saroyan – “17 from Works”
     Jack Anderson – “Paper Clip”
     John Perreault – “Hatbox”
     Ron Padgett – “Nancy”
     William Burroughs – “Chlorhydrate d’Apomorpine Chabre”
     Charles Olson – “A Maximus” [“As of why thinking…”]
     Philip Whalen – [untitled] “Hum Scandal! Abdication…”
     Jonathan Greene – [untitled] “Chillingsworth…”
     Dan Saxon – “Fall Colors”
     Clark Coolidge – “The Death of Floyd Collins”
     Ron Padgett – untitled illustrations
     William Burroughs – “Rex Morgan M.D.”
     Ted Berrigan – “On the Road Again”
     Tom Clark – “Are Victors”
     Clark Coolidge – “Everley Formation”
     Aram Saroyan – “Sentences II”
     Dick Gallup – “Hygiene Sonnet”
     Bob Brovar – “Fleen pleen”
     Bob Brovar – “Guush-shee”
     Bob Brovar – “Flaanczongdoogy”
     Ted Greenwald – “Landscape”
     Fielding Dawson – “from The Dream”
     Lorine Niedecker – [untitled] “Lights lifts…”
     Lorine Niedecker – [untitled] “The obliteration…”
     Mike Silverton – “I Am A Silent One”
     Mike Silverton – “Seeing the Road”
     Aram Saroyan – “Sentences III”
     Mike Silverton – “The Sniper’s Song”

6. LINES, No. 6, edited by Aram Saroyan
New York: Lines, November 1965
First edition, side-stapled in printed card cover, 8.5″x 11″, 42 pages. Cover art by Fielding Dawson.

• Contents:
  1. Aram Saroyan – “11 Works”
     John Perreault – “Here on the Edge of this Island”
     Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett – “Saturday Night at the Movies”
     Clark Coolidge – “Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric”
     Bernadette Mayer – “Pope John”
     Joseph Ceravolo – [untitled] “How do you know when…”
     Joseph Ceravolo – [untitled] “Feast. Turtle. Wide arms…”
     Al Fowler – [untitled] “are you a root or a tendermint…”
     Vito Hannibal Acconci – “Blowstalk”
     Robert Viscusi – “An Edison on Messaien”
     David Sandberg – “Mime Play ”
     Robert Lax – [untitled] “no one was better…”
     Mike Silveron – “Cork”
     bp Nichol – “cycle #21”
     bp Nichol – “Tribute to Vasarely”
     Tom Clark – “oooooooooo”
     Dom Sylvester Houédard – [untitled] “sand rock tide…”
     Carl Fernbach – “Flarsheim”
     John Furnival – “Pisa”
     John Furnival – “The Fall of the Tower of Babel”
     John Furnival – “Devil Trap
     William Burroughs – “The Last Post – Danger Ahead”
     Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard – [untitled] “all roses are bad ideas”
     Domine Falcone – [untitled] “the girl with the fat lips…”
     Aram Saroyan – [untitled] “A”
     Joseph Pinelli – “Excerpts from Book I”

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