The Vagabond Press (1965-1980) was vehicle of communication for anti-establishment writers, critics, and artists, including John Bennett, Charles Bukowski, Curt Johnson, William Wantling, Linda King, Dave Steward, Hugh Fox, Lyn Lifshin, Tom Kryss, Rich Mangelsdorff, Douglas Blazek, Art Beck, and others.
Bennett was born in Brooklyn, New York, and left school at 16, later returning. He worked in a variety of jobs in many locations, entered the seminary, and served three years in the army. He spent some time at George Washington University and the University of Munich.
Bennett began writing at an early age, and published stories and poems in a variety of literary magazines.
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Vagabond Press Records, Ms.83.1, Brown University Library.
The Vagabond Press Records span the fifteen years between the birth of the press in 1965 and its death in 1979.
John Bennett and Charles Bukowski corresponded about life, poetry, writing, and other writers. Similar exchanges took place with Hugh Fox, who considered Bennett a personal confidant. Conversations with Alyce Ingram often focused on writing and on Vagabond publications. Len Fulton, Diane Kruchkow, and Bennett discussed the relationship of small presses to society as a whole. Kruchkow referred to other small press publications like Cafe Solo. Charles and Pam Plymell discussed with Bennett the question of integrity in small press publishing. Tom Kryss and Bennett talked about poetry in practice and in life. Curt Johnson discussed with Bennett the evolution of December and Vagabond, their own writing careers, etc. Exchanges with Dave Steward embraced philosophy, poetry, fiction and literary agents.
Different regions of the country as well as different nations and languages are represented here. Bennett corresponded in German with Louise Rinser, for example about using her work in a Vagabond publication. The Westenhuber Brothers, German printers who had printed the early Vagabond issues when Bennett was living in Munich, expressed their wishes for the continued success of the press in the United States.
Of special interest are Bennettt's description of the demise of Vagabond in a letter to Val Morehouse and his personal recommendations of reviewers and critics in a letter to Bill Robson. The series also contains several discussions with writers in prison. Ed "Foots" Lipman, for example, described to Bennett the problems of the poet in prison. Paul Bacik spoke about censorship, his daughter, and Vagabond. John P. Minarik, Larry Sykes, and Bill Pruitt discussed their prison experience in relation to their writing.
The most colorful letters are those whose authors reveal the true colors of their convictions. Tom Smario, for example, in a letter from 3 January 1977, told Bennett: "There is always something warm about your rejection slips. Maybe it's the color of that paper that's deceiving me ... God damn man everything I've sent would look good in there ... Perhaps you'll do me a favour, though, if you reject this poem tell me why because damn you sure got me curious." (See box 14, folder 28.)
If Series 1 could be called, "what they said and how they said if", then Series 2 might be entitled, "what they did and how they did it." Series II, Archives, shows press activities in progress. It contains both printed material and manuscript material, including correspondence
An index follows Series 1 and 2. It lists and locates authors of correspondence and other manuscript material, and the names of editors, presses, publishers, and publications with whom the Vagabond Press had dealings.
This introduction originally included the cataloguer's observations on the content of the collection, to which Mr. Bennett took exception. For the original observations and an exchange of letters on the subject, see the Apendix to the collection (Box 45, folder 13).
The original order of the material established by John Bennett has for the most part, been preserved. The collection is divided into two main series, Series I, Correspondence Calender, almost exclusively manuscript materials, is arranged alphabetically by the name of individual or by name of press or publication. Most of the correspondence in the collection are concentrated here, but sections within the second series contain many letters as well.
For provenance-related correspondence, see the description in subseries I.
The Vagabond Press records are arranged into the following series:
The Vagabond Press records were donated to the Library by John Bennett.
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Arranged alphabetically by name of individual or by name of publication or press.
2 letters and 1 card to John Bennett; About Civic Arts Commission Writer's Competition, Washington State.
3 letters to JB. About publication of an Algren article in Vagabond.
10 letters to JB. About publication of an Algren article in Vagabond.
5 letters and cards to JB by wife of Andres; 3 letters to SA from JB; About publication of story in Vagabond. In German and in Englisch.
About publication in early issue of Vagabond.
About assistance to his daughter who had copies of Vagabond taken away from her on the grounds they were pornographic.
2 letters to JB; About COSMEP meeting at Davis, 1975 about poem JB wrote about AB.
7 letters to JB; 1 telegram; 1 card. About reading at the IYF and displaying Vagabond publications.
22 letters and 3 cards to JB; 3 letters AB from JB; 1 letter JB fr "Stuart." About poems in Vagabond and Beck's Vagabond Press book: The Discovery of Music.
10 letters and 3 cards to JB. 5 letters form JB to CB. About poetry in general.
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond, JB's resignation as chairperson of COSMEP.
6 letters to JB about poetry in general. Work to be published in Vagabond.
1 letter & 1 card to JB form Erich Kock, Böll's secretary. 1 letter from JB to Boll. About publication of Böll story in Vagabond.
2 letters to JB. About stories submitted to Vagabond.
2 letters to JB. About book Vagabond Press printed; his plans to return to U.S. after years in Holland.
5 letters & 1 card to JB; 3 letters form JB to DB. About purchase of an offset press; readings at Left Bank, poets.
About first two issues of Vagabond.
3 letters to Bernstein. About the poetry/literary scene; about new work both were working on at the time.
14 letters and 1 card to JB; 2 letters to DB. About poetry in general; Vagabond and Ole; Vagabond Anthology (including a letter from Blazek to Mangelsdorrf explaining his motivation for starting Open Skull and writing poetry, copy.)
49 letters to JB; 4 cards; 18 letters to CB. Correspondence with KCET TV about release on film footage for Bukowski film. About everything under the sun--poetry, women, drinking, magazines and books, sorrow, God, mysticism and children, the look in their eyes.
15 letters to JB; 2 letters to RC. About book distribution.
8 letters to JB. 4 letters to TR. About poetry/publishing.
About writing in progress.
6 letters to JB; some have no dates. About issues of Vagabond.
1 letter to JB.
2 letters to JB. About poetry, work in progress, Vagabond.
2 letters to JB; 2 letters to HM. About possibility of a fiction anthology.
1 letter to TC. About Clark's book, The Great American Poetry Wars.
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond
5 letters to JB; 4 letters to KC. About poetry in general, small press scene, Vagabond.
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to CC. Cooper accusing Bennett of Commercialism, Bennett responding to the charge.
3 letters to JB; 2 letters to WC. Discussions about Vagabonds 14 & 15
5 letters and 1 card to JB; 1 letter to RI. About small press activity, poetry.
7 letters and 1 card to JB; 1 letter to MM. About small press activity, poetry.
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to JW. About publication of Nelson Algren's article in Vagabond.
4 letters to JB. About small press activity, poetry.
The Cockroach Poem controversy.
7 letters to JB. About beginning of Vagabond; writing in general; Tuesday Night Writers Club that both JB and OD belonged to in 1965.
9 letters to JB; 2 letters to JD. About Six Poets, possible anthology on 60s, Deutsch's shift in position away form Realism in poetry.
2 letters and 1 card to JB; 2 letters to JSW. About Dimensions and Vagabond.
2 letters and 1 card to JB. About Vagabond and Dogsoldier.
2 letters to JB; About JB's Anarchistic Murmurs; Smith's change in style.
8 letters to JB; 13 letters to LE. About possible film articles for Vagabond, possible interviews with German literary figures.
1 letter to JB about manuscript JB submitted to Egg.
5 letters to JB. About Vagabond, and an anthology of western writing Elder was doing. Also comments about Bennett's writing.
7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BG. About poetry, Empty Boat and Vagabond.
4 letters to JB; 1 letter to ET. About poems sent to Epos by JB.
3 letters to JB; 5 letters to ER. About selling posters.
1 letter to JB; About Exley's books
17 letters and cards to JB; 4 letters to TA. About small press publishing, poetry and fiction, purchasing of printing equipment.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to MMF
7 letters & cards to JB; 1 letter to PF. About San Francisco Book Fair, Stoogism Anthology, poetry and small mags.
1 letter to JB fr Ferlinghetti; 1 letter to JB fr Nancy Phillips, secretary to Ferlinghetti; 1 letter to LF; 1 letter to NP. About lining up some Bukowski readings in Bay Area.
3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology, Floating Island books Lew Welch.
1 letter to JB about JB's special section in Wormood Review, Fogel's poems.
3 letters to JB; Long letters about predicament of poet in our society.
2 letters to JB about small press activity.
Ghost Dance. 69 letters and cards to JB; (some are undated however). 25 letters to HF(some undated). Wide range of topics--small press, poetry/fiction, personal difficulties, etc.
23 letters to JB; 9 letters to LF. Long discussions about direction of small press activity and its relationship to society as a whole.
7 letters to JB. About small press scene in general, CCLM, Jack Saunders, D.C. lit. politics.
1 card to JB. About the viability of small magazines and small presses.
1 letter to JB; 2 letters to Burns. About first CCLM meeting in Bkly out of which grew COSMEP; about contemplating discontinuing Vagabond.
7 letters to JB. About L.A. literary scene; about Vagabond Anthology; about S.F. Book Fair; about poetry in general.
2 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology.
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to KG. About publishing his work in Vagabond.
4 letters to JB; 3 letters to GG. About publishing his work in Vagabond.
3 letters to JB. About literature in general; Hack's move to S.F.; his starting new mag called Space Age Review.
1 letter from JB to PH. About reading together in Bayreuth; about Handke contributing to German edition of Vagabond.
7 letters to JB; 2 letters to GH. Criticism and analysis of Haslam's work.
3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; an IH poetry manuscript.
4 letters & 1 telegram to JB. About publishing French writers in Vagabond.
5 letters to JB (no dates). About various Vagabond issues, poems by Hester.
28 letters to JB; 15 letters to BH. About writing/poetry, small press scene; including a nine page letter from Hiatt describing the founding of GRR and its evolution.
1 letter to JB. About possible contribution to Vagabond.
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to JH. About an appearence on "Comment".
1 letter to JB. About Al Masarik's poetry about sending poems to Vagabond.
3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; possible meeting; poems for Vagabond.
2 letters to JB; 1 letter to AH. About JB's Anarchistic Murmurs; about Cleveland small press scene.
2 letters to JB; 1 letter to WH about poems submitted to and accepted by Vagabond.
6 letteers to AI. About publishing AI's book,
2 letters to JB. About indexing Vagabond.
2l letters to JB; 1 letter to MM. About arranging readings at Intersection for Bukowski, other poets.
4 letters to JB. About controversy at 75 CCLM meeting; quality of Vagabond publications; discontinuation of Mojo Navigator
3 letters to EJ. About poetry in general, poems submitted to Vagabond, personal philosopy.
64 letters to JB; 3 letters to HJ. About the publication and distribution of HJ's book, Sermons.
138 letters, cards, etc. to JB
60 letters to CJ. Covers the evolution of both Vagabond and December during this period of time. Covers the writing careers of both Johnson and Bennett during this time. Touches on numerous facets of the small press world.
1 letter to JB; about reviews in Library Journal.
48 letters to JB; some drawings; notes by Bukowski; 18 letters to LK. About Sweet & Dirty, LK's book published by Vagaond. About poetry, small press.
4 letters to JB. About Purr and Vagabond books.
7 letters & cards to JB. About various Vagabond publications. (some undated)
1 letter to JB. Thanking JB for comments on Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
1 letter to JB. About Kooser's new book; about JB's Night of the Great Butcher.
1 card to JB; 2 letters to RK. About a 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
9 letters & cards to JB. About various Vagabond publications.
1 letter to JB; 3 letters to PK. About reprinting a Timothy Leary interview in Vagabond.
69 letters and poems to JB with attached drawings, etc.; ( some items undated); 11 letters to TK. About writing, poetry in practice & in life, TK's Vagabond book, Music in the Winepress, Parrots in the Flames.
28 letters and cards to JB; 3 letters to DK. About various small Press activities.
1 letter to JB; 2 letters to CL. About a 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
13 letters and cards, with publicity leaflet, to JB; 1 letter to LL. About various small press publications, Lifshin books, Vagabond books.
1 letter to JB. About various matters concerning poetry.
7 letters to JB. About problems of a poet in prison.
4 letters to JB; 1 lettter to JL. About various Vagabond books, about 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
3 letters to JB; (no dates) 3 letters to JB. About Vagabond publications.
4 letters to JB; 1 letter to JK. About Vagabond & Mag.
1 letter to JB fr Anne M. Barry, secretary to NM. About possible contribution to Vagabond
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond & special Transatlantic Rev for which Malanga did poetry editing.
31 letters to JB; 13 letters to RM. About a wide range of small press matters.
2 letters to JB.
10 letters to JB; 2 letters to RM. About Vagabond and YBR.
77 letters and cards, etc. including photo, to JB. 1 letter to AM. About a wide range of small press matters.
1 letter to JB. About manuscript for what was to become Skinny Dynamite, Second Coming Press.
2 letters & 1 card to JB. About Vagabond publications.
6 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About poetry, possibility of readings, visit to prison where JM was incarcerated.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to PK. About possible site for COSMEP Conference, poetry.
2 letters to JB(no dates); 2 poems in own hand (no dates); About various poets.
3 letters to JB. About Road/House and Vagabond.
2 letters to JB; 2 letters to VM. About the viability of segregating small press publications in Booklist.
20 letters and cards to JB. 3 letters to NM. About a wide range of small press matters.
13 letters and cards to JB. 2 letters to PF. About various small press matters and Fiore's manuscripts.
6 letters to JB; 1 inscribed poem; 2 letters to EM. About poetry in general.
19 letters to JB; 4 letters to JM. About founding of Vagabond, literature in general.
4 letters to JB. About poetry in general, Vagabond.
2 letters to JB. About CN book manuscript; JB poems.
1 letter to JB. A vehement lambaste of Vagabond.
4 letters to JB. About small press matters in general.
3 letters to JB. About magazine submissions.
2 letters to JB. About work submitted to BP & Linda King quote.
1 card to JB. About work submitted to BP & Linda King quote (does not have starting date).
4 letters to JB; 2 dates, 2 no dates. About mutual mags, submissions.
7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BW. About small press matters in general.
4 letters to JB (2 of these contain notes of/from JB as well); 3 letters to NE. About Nola Express writing, Vagabond.
1 letter to JB. About difficulties Norse was having keeping things together (not dated).
1 letter to JB. About poetry scene in L.A.
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About doing guest editor work for Outta Sight.
1 letter to JB. About poems by RO, submission to Vagabond.
7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BW. About small press matters in general.
4 letters to JB (2 of these contain notes of/from JB as well); 3 letters to NE. About Nola Express writing, Vagabond.
1 letter to JB. About difficulties Norse was having keeping things together.
1 letter to JB. About poetry scene in L.A.
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About doing guest editor work for Outta Sight.
1 letter to JB. About poems by RO, submission to Vagabond.
2 letters to JB; 2 letters to PR. About exchanging publications, ads, using quotes from PR in Vagabond.
1 letter to JB about Vagabond publications.
2 letters to JB. About Vagabond
8 letters to JB; 1 letter to IP. About Vagabond publications, placing books in IP's store. About literature in general.
4 letters to JB; 1 letter to RP. About poetry in general, analysis of Vagabond Anthology.
2 letters to JB; 1 letter to BP. About commercial vs. artistic aspects of poetry, small press world. Detailed examination. Numerous examples.
4 letters to JB; 1 letter to Plymell. About integrity of small press publishing, directions, distributions and financing.
3 letters to JB; 3 letters to PV (2 pencil drafts)
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to PA. About small press matters.
7 letters to FP. About a wide range of small press matters.
8 letters to JB. About small press mattersm Porsche's Work, Vagabond.
15 letters & cards to JB; 6 letters to CP.
4 letters to JB. About Vagabond.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to BP. About poetry markets, problems being a prison poet.
About nominations for PP.
17 letters, etc. to JB ( some are undated); 2 letters to TQ. About various small press matters.
4 letters to JB( TLS, text in German) 4 letters to Radar. About possible contributions to Vagabond by Polish writers.
2 letters to JB; About Vagabond.
1 letter to JB. About small magazine trends.
20 letters to JB with mostly no dates; 1 letter to SR. About various small press matters.
3 letters to JB from LR's publisher; 1 card from LR. 4 letters to publisher & LR. About publishing work of LR in Vagabond. All text in German.
12 letters to JB. About Clevleand scene, Vagabond.
4 letters to JB; 1 letter to TB. About arranging an interview with Tom Robbins for Vagabond 25.
12 letters & cards to JB; 2 letters to KR. About various small press matters.
13 letters to JB; 2 letters to KR. About various small press matters.
31 letters to JB; 6 letters to BR. About various small press matters; about JB being featured in BB.
1 letter to JB. About Vagabond Anthology, CCLM/NEA,Samisdat, Clifton's writing, etc.
28 letter & cards to JB; 6 letters to RS. About RS's Vagabond book, East Harlem Poems; about distribution in S.F.; about small press matters in general.
1 letter to SA about the possibility of SA doing an AL Masarik book.
4 letters to JB. About a JB article in Small Press Review.
1 letter to JB. About a JB article in Small Press Review.
3 letters to JB; 6 letters to ST. About possibility of publishing Heinrich Böll story from Vagabond in SSI.
1 letter to JB. About not being with CCLM any longer.
2 letters to JB. About Vagabond, FS's poems.
14 letters to JB; 4 letters to RM. About distribution, Bag books to be handled by SPBC.
4 letters to JB. About Vagabond, TS's poetry.
3 letters to JB; 4 letters & 1 invoice to Smith; 2 letters from Smith to COSMEP (Richard Morris) and to COSMEP Politburo. About distribution; about achieving non-profit, tax exempt status for COSMEP.
2 letters to JB; 2 letters to RS. About poets, mags.
2 letters to JB. About Vagabond, JS's poems.
7 letters to JB about Vagabond/Smudge; poetry in general.
1 letter to SS. About granting an interview to Vagabond--which he did.
6 letters to JB. About various small press matters; Editors, Choice Anthology; Vagabond.
1 letter to JB; 2 letters to Spit. About possible interview for Vagabond; about issues of Spit, Vagabond.
1 letter to VS; About rejection of poems.
1 letter to JB; 2 letters to FS. About first issue of Vagabond; about exchanging ads.
52 letters to JB (these include incomplete dates, however); 10 letters to DS. About a wide range of subjects: poetry, fiction, agents, small press, philosophy, etc.
2 letters to JB; 1 envelope; 3 letters to LS; 2 envelopes; 2 prison censor sheets; 1 letter to JB from David Bourns; 1 letter to CCLM. About Syke's poetry; trying to get CCLM to intervene in matter of prison not letting my mail to Sykes go thru.
1 letter to JB. About folding of Tabloid Story.
1 letter to JB. About payment for JB book Talisman did: Potted Plants.
24 letters to JB. About a wide range of small press matters.
9 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; about ending of Vagabond magazine about small press matters.
2 letters to JB; 1 letter to JP. About JB's poems.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JT. About JT's poems to go into Vagabond book, Six Poets.
4 letters to JB; 5 letters to IGT; note and order form from Curt Johnson and December. About inclusion of IGT story in early Vagabond; about inclusion of same story in anthology of best small press fiction.
2 letters to JB; about purchasing of Vagabond books.
7 letters and cards to JB; 4 letters to TR. About poets, writers, exchanging magazines, ads.
1 letter to JB; 1 letter to HR. About TP and Vagabond.
7 letters to JB; 3 letters to DJ. About Vagabond and Unfold; about JB's Unfold book--Seventh Side.
1 letter to JB. About work JB sent to Unmuzzled Ox.
3 letters to JB. About RVV's poetry, about Vagabond.
2 letters to JB. About quality of Vagabond in relation to other small press books carried in the City Lights.
6 letters to WW. About WW's poems, poetry in general, small press activity, projected books, first issue of Vagabond.
2 letters to JB. About WW's death, including him in Vagabond Anthology.
2 cards to JB. About sending material to Vagabond.
10 letters and cards, etc. to JB (from both Jon & Gypsy Lou). About Vagabond and Loujon books; about Jon's death and history of Loujon press.
1 Card to JB; no date. About CCLM Grants Committee on which JB sat.
1 letter to JB (Text in German). About Vagabond, their happiness that the magazine continues to fluorish in USA.
1 letter to JB. About controversy JB had with Invisible City editors.
3 letters to JB; 1 letter to Willie. About small press scene in 60s.
5 letters to AS; 6 letters to AS. About various small press matters; about interviewing Masarik, JB and Bukowski as 3 main proponents of "Easy Poetry".
16 letters to JB. About various Vagabond books, Wilson's work.
37 letters to ADW. About JB resigning as Chair of COSMEP, about CCLM about various small press matters.
2 letters to JB about issues of Vagabond.
21 letters, etc. to JB; (some undated) manuscript of Malone's piece in Vagabond: Magazine Scene in the 60s. 5 letters to MM. About JB's poetry, about Vagabond and WR, dispute over Vagabond Anthology.
1 letter to JB; St. Patrick's Day, 76 (TLS) about Vagabond.
13 letters and notes to VY. About first Vagabond issue, subsequent issues; interview 1/JB for Washington Post, etc.
1 card to JB. About poems sent to Vagabond.
Cover art and 4 interior drawings by Glenn Miller.
Two cover photos by Richard Olen; 1 poster layout w/ Olen photo; cover art by Cindy Bennett; interior drawings by G.Miller.
Two title page drawings by Cindy Bennett
Cover art by M.Haggerty; 3 intetrior illustrations by M. Haggerty; some calligraphy and art work.
Original cover photography by George Stillman; 2 illustrations by M. Haggerty; calligraphy
Cover art by Haggerty; multiple versions of 2 illustrations by Haggerty (includes Xerox) photographs for cover design by Dan Rice; calligraphy by Cindy Bennett.
Cover art by C. Bennett
Cover art by C. Bennett; illustrations by Michael Swofford; 1 illustration by Katie Bache; other art by C. Bennett.
19 woodcut prints by R. Denner, some of which were used in issue
3 illustrations by Jimmy Jet
Cover photography and layout for cover by C. Bennett; film strips and negatives for possible cover.
Cover and layout/cover film by C.Bennett; 3 illustrations by C. Bennett; cover photography by Jill Masarik for possible cover when title of book was going to be Blues for son of Cochise.
Cover layout and art by C. Bennett.
Ten rough draft drawings by G.Miller for cover; 2 illustrations by Miller.
layout
Notes for contents; cover layout; original manuscript. 34 pp.;rejects, 1299.
Cover art
Some correspondence; manuscript notes; 4 original mass; copy proofs; envelope; sketch; layout, 22pp.; clipping.
Correspondence; manuscript notes; TMs poems for publication, 20 pp; proofs, 7 pp.; cover layout, 3pp.; layout, 16 pp.
correspondence; planning notes; TMs, 14 pp.; drawings by Kryss; layout,21 pp.
Biographical sketch; TMs, 11 pp
Biographical sketch; TMs, 27 pp.
Planning notes; TMs, 23 pp.; 19 poems not used in book, 23 pp
Mixed typeset copy, not laid out
Orig. manuscript, 49 pp.; layout for 2nd edition, 18 pp.
Introductory pages, including commentary by Orem (2 copies of and biographical sketch, 26 pp.; original manuscript, 48 pp
Orig.manuscript, 65 pp.
Original manuscript, 23 pp.; layout, 17 pp.;
Original manuscript, 43 pp.; copies of 6 Buk.drawings.
Correspondence, etc.
Layout, 63 pp.
layout-related notes
More layout-related materials, 12 pp
Miscellaneous notes, etc., 5 pp
Original TMss, together with corrections, etc., 59 pp
Sob Sister; The Girl; Portrait of a Man Returning to His Life; He is looking for Something ...; Trivia; if an Egg Falls ...; On Stage; Telling the Story (Menebroker, Ann).
I'd be Afraid That I'd Drop a Baby, Climbing; Peregrine; Men watch Football Because They are Lonely for Other Men; At the Shopping Center there are Mechanical Animals; Square; Napa, Sonoma, Mendacino; Damn You, Horace Greeley; Saturday Night (Koertge, Ronald).
Glass; Writing Poems; He Dreams; Sun Poem; The Crossing; This Other Her Running, Dissolves; The Lanae, Hotel Kaiamona; But the Seeds (Lifshin, Lyn).
Brush Firs; Sand Dollars; Starfish; Old Woman on Pier; Eight Arms with Suckers; I Would like to Tell you; Dirge (Masarik, Al).
White Enamel Bathtub; Meeting for the First Time; They Accuse me of Riding; I'm An Indian; We were Twins in the Womb (Penfold Gerda)
Pine Knob Mondo; The Squirrels; The Last Frontier; Eight Unwritten Stories; Tarquin; For He Surely Waits; Some of Them End as Suicides (Thomas, John).
Cover art blues from printer
layout notes
layout, 42 pp
More Layout
Original Ms, 238 pp.; includes introductory pages
The Bronze Maidens from Bellevue (Thorsteinsson, I.G.); THe Kid in the Iron Hat; The Exam (Hughes, Dorothy); Hard Times; Didacticism as a King of Prism (Turner, W.Price); Unfinished Painting (Rebert, M. Charles).
A Child is Born (Bunch, Grant J.); How Fear Has Progressed (Arthur, Terry); Sometime They'll Give a War and Nobody will Come; One Winter Day in the U.S.A in the Endless Year of Vietman (Bennett, Richard L.); One Dark Delinquent Night (Yudkin, Vivian); Visit to Venice; And All the Snow Melted...(Bukowski, Charles); Homage to Mickey; Yolanda (Micheline, Jack); Five Poems (Richmond, Steve)
Larry Moon; Vietnam (Robertson, Kirk); Feeding Time (Grapes, Marcus J.); Sob Sister (Menebroker, Ann); Story (Johnson, Curt); from: Sestina to San Quentin; For a Nordic Child (Wantling, William); Epitaph for a Quiet Country Morning (Willie).
Song; Grease (Robertson,Kell); Grandma #3; Love Story (NorthSun, Nila); Replacement (Fox, Hugh); Gunny (Bumpus, Jerry); Five Poems (Taylor, Kent); Six Poems (Kryss, T.L.).
Like Water in My Hands (Salazar, Leo); Slaughter by Daylight; Straightening the warp (Blazek, Douglas); Third Quarter (Levy, D.A); Something to Say (Nicoletta, Peter); The Garden of the Mind (Moser, Norm); For Him the Belle Trulls (Johnson, Curt).
A Swell Idea (Kowit, Steve); Just Like Charles Bukowski (Herman, Ira); Don Quixnote come Home for Dinner (Smario, Tom); The Musicians (Garcia, Louis); On the Bus; In the Park (Reddall, Dave); Excerpts from the Journal of Jirac Disslerov (Chambers, George).
Star Kissing; Some Small Birds Alight in My Hair (Matte, Robert); The Dream of Ancestors; You Can't Teach Your Grandmother to Suck Eggs (James, David L.); Three Poems (Bennett, John M.).
Pilgrims (Steward, D.E.).
Includes: King of New York (Gustafson, Jim); Mongoose (Spinelli, Jerry); At the Laundromat in Alhambra; The Day Alvero Pineda Was Killed (Koertge, Ronald); The Commune; The Humanist (Esmonde, Joe); Chrome Fever; Covered With Fur (Macon, E.L); Maroon (Dybek, Stuart); The Idiots (Cook, Paul H.); Michael/Alternatives (Mikolowski, Ken); What's Money Good for Anyway But to Spend? (Smith, Joan); Clarification (Poling, William); Pictures from an Institution-III (Hester, Jr., M.L.).
Eight Poems (Lifshin, Lyn); The Return (Fiore, Peter); It Keeps Getting Larger; Landscape with Man from Germany Passing Through (Jared, Paul); Night Syndrome (Axelrod, David); I Held My Hat... (Haggerty, Margaret Thomas); Love's Labors Found (McEnteer, James); Dreaming of A Pair of Shoes (Miller Wayne; Half Moon Bay Quadrangle (Powell, Pamela Leslie).
includes: Pieces (Petrakos,Chris); After Seven A.M. Mass (James, Eileen).
Six Poems (Penfold, Gerda); Four Poems (Beck,Art); Caruso Sweating & Big Nick in His Underwear; Coney Island, Horseshit Beach, The Atlantic Ocean (Scotellaro, Robert).
Four Poems (King Linda); Monsters in the Mission (Orem, James).
Eleven Poems (Masarik, Al); For Joe Lucas (Vane, Paul) (while this was included by Bennett in the anthology material, it does not seem to appear in the printed anthology itself.)
Includes: Contributor's notes, etc.
Layout, 185 pp
Revisions in layout, etc.
Corrections, etc. (many small fragments in envelopes.)
Photographs and photographic layout material
Proofs of pages with photographs.
Cover and spine material.
Proofs (partial set)
Proofs (complete set)
Printer's blues.
Hardback cover for anthology. Type for spine.
Biographical sketch with TMs, 25 pp.
Vagabond Issues #10--#30; Mr. Clean Magazine #1 & #2: Much of the following material contains editorial revisions, comments, etc.
Original manuscript, partially handwritten; includes: Fat upon the Land (Bukowski, Charles); Third Quarter (Levy, D.A); All Power to the People (Bennett, John); Swampcat in Babylon (Orem, James); Northbeach Happenings (Winans, A.D.); The Changes: A Poem Cycle (Fox, Hugh); Waiting at the Bus Top (Odam, Joyce); Solipsist's Land of Fuck (fantasy) (Lorenzo, Brother); Rat Hunt (McCall, John); Goong Back, etc. (Lifshin, Lyn); Acts from the Interior Corpse; Blood Chart(Blazek, Douglas).
Correspondence with contributors: Bennett, Winans, Blazek, Odam, Lorenzo, Lifshin
Other correspondence: DeBuda, Francis
Film for cover
Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Bennett, Debuda, Odam, Bumpus, Menebroker.
Miscellaneous planning notes for issues 10-13.
Layout preliminaries
Original manuscript material for issues 12 and 13, 56 pp.; includes: La-La (Bennett,John); For the Third Odiferous Time, and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); The Words to that Song Escape Me and I Wouldn't Sing it Anyway (Robertson, Kell); Dug-In and other poems (Moser, Norman C.); No God Damn Good (King, Linda); Work-Fuck Problems, and other poems (Bukowski, Charles); You see Them in the Alleys, and other poems (Masarik, Al); I know (Hiatt, Ben L.); Saturday Morning at the Super (Winans, A.D.); Amateur Night at University Hall (Coleman, Horace); In the Department Store, and other poems (Koertge, Ronald); The Grudging Seed I Bring, etc. (Odam, Joyce); I Shall Soon know, etc. (Synder, Richard); At Fort Gordon, Georgia (Bedell,Tom); W.C. Fields and Christ (Menebroker, Ann); Papa's Existential Etiquette (Quagliano, Tony); filler quotation.
A Vagabond Creatures Production (author?), 19 pp.
Copy layout, 16 pp.
Cover for Vagabond 13 (3 copies).
The Universe and Conceptual Art (an editorial); The Human Cannonball(Orem, James).
Dear Woman; The Beast, and other poems (Masarik, Al); Receptacle (Menebroker,Ann); Drowning (Salisbury,Cynthia); What do you think you're doing (Lifshin, Lyn); Fear (Lifshin, Lyn);A Memory (James, Eileen N.); There were three hundred and twenty seven moons (Miller Wayne);Phyllis (Agostino, Joan); Oregon (Cuelho, Art); Antropology (Nettlebeck,F.A.); manuscript Oakly (Head, Robert); Two boys (Masarik, Al); a delicate medallion (Miller, Wayne); Trajectories (Fox, Hugh); The gypsy's dancing bear (Roundtree, Marjorie); Downtown Albany, the Darkblue Wind streets (Lifshin, Lyn); An Exercise of Rock (Blazek, Douglas); Lyn told me (Kwintm Kenn); It has Rained to the Brim of Danger (Odam, Joyce)
Includes: The prize of our culture (Fariello, Griffin), 15 pp.
includes: Errata and note
Includes: Proofs, 25 pp.
Vietnam Saga (Corrigan, Michael T.)
Martinson's Covenant (Pendleton, Christopher)
A Visual Reconaissance (Cooper, Wayne L.)
Interview of Andrew Sackmar (author)
Make the Motor Run Smoothly (Bushnoff, Fedor); The War was over (Miller, Wayne); 99 Degrees (Bukowski, Charles); The Oldest Hiippie in the World (Bukowski, Charles); Ancient Gringo Savvy (Quagliano, Tony); Canada is an open door (Bennett, Rick); Wild Dogs(Gustafson, Jim); The Mysterioso South (Synder, Richard); There is a Tiger Sleeping (King, Linda).
Correspondence
Financial records, 5 pp
Biographical sketches, 9 pp.
Miscellaneous planning notes
Manuscript material for issue 16; includes: Farmers' Market, New Hampshire, 1880 (McMahon Michael); Once upon a Time (Tyler, Robert); Here's to Denver (Chaet, Eric); Rio and Freighters (Caplin, Loren Paul); Toys and other poems (Hounshell, William); If only ... (Shroyer, David); Poetry in the Politics of (Hoffman, Avron); Rivet (Poling, William); Different Colored Bodies (Kay, John); Glad Day, (Lifshin, Lyn); Portrait; Night Trippers (Colby, Joan); You say you shut the rapids (Yagamuchi, Joanne); The Ways of Change (James, Eileen M.); Breaking Down (James, Eileen M.) the writers; etc. (King, Linda); The Common Preoccupation; etc (Beck Art); The Failure of the Padded Bra (Dewey, A.A); Monkey Bars (Meyer, Vicky).
Alone in Your House (Axelrod, David); Poem from a letter to Bob Blossom (Micheline, Jack); Written in a Deserted Station at 3 a.m.; etc. (James, Eileen); When it's like This, It's Like This ... (Lifshin, Lyn); Whistling in the Dark; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Fetlocks (Koertge, Ronald); the bike rider (King, Linda); The Morning (Strom, Mike); The City's Civic Sewage System (Berg, Eric Ivan); Watermelon; and other poems (Stevens, Craig); High on Love (James, Eileen); Wrinkly Lady Dancer (Ostriker, Alicia); 66 and other poems (Powell, Leslie); Aunt Mary Who Always Understood (James, Eileen); Describing my Date to my Roommate (White, Gail); Ways to Read a Poem (Wier, Dara); #60 (Locklin, Gerald); Last Things (Fox, Hugh); Idolatry (Rapant, Larry).
Bennett; Salazar, Leo; Fanning, Pat; Ostriker, Alicia; Rapant; Berg; Stevens; Wier; Powell.
Publisher's advertisement
Includes: One of our Poets is Missing (Goldberg, Ben); The Leaves are all he knows how to touch; etc. (Lifshin, Lyn); Poems for Joyce; etc. (London, Jonathan); Sharing Love; etc. (Caplin, Loren P.); Waiting Poem (McKenzie, K. Michael); Dawn Breaks for Mr. Dealer Man (Orem, James); The Sailor; etc. (Masarik, Al); Gloria's Mouth (Scotellaro, Robert); Eva; etc. (Beck, Art); Miles Put the Blackhawk Down (Elder, Gary); what if Jack's life ended like this?; etc. (Kesler, Charles); Gabriel (White, William M.); Freedom (Hester, M.L.); A Long Rambling Poem to Annie's Ghost (Menebroker, Ann); appearing powerful (King, Linda).
Calligraphy, 2 pp.
Film for cover
TMs, A Preliminary Attempt at a Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling, by Marvin Malone, 7 pp.
Exhibit prospectus
Fat Bob (Guerra, Art); Bitch; etc. (McCluskey, Sally); What Do you Have in You Window?; etc. (Powers, Shirley); Four Nites Running (London, Jonathan); waiting for a train (Masarik, Al); Violets are Black (Waluconis, Carl); Vortex (Wagner, Linda); What "There" is "Left" to Understand (Bennett, John); A Survey of the Little Mag Scene of the Sixties (Malone, Marvin); Free Fire (Bennett, John M.); Underground, 1974: The Optimistic Overview (Hugh, Fox).
Addendum to Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling ... (Malone, Marvin).
Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Matte, Robert; Powers, Shirley; Petrakos, Chris; Johnson, Curt; Congdon, Kirby; Wagner, Linda; McCluskey, Sally; Bennett, John M.
Dead gull (Masarik, Al); What Bad Dreams We Have, My Dear (Menebroker, Ann); white knights, etc. (NorthSun, Nila); Dream Machines (Fiore, Peter); Gold Dust (Kowit, Steve); Stale Eggs (Ingram, Alyce); Odd Man In and Out; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Scourign Your Dreams; and other poems (London, Jonathan); Bridge aAcross (Penfold, Gerda); Only Painting (Cramer, Mark); Crossing the River (Kowit, Steve); every man must fear; and other poems (Russel, Norman H.)
What There is Left to Understand (Potts,Charles); Mister(Darky, Brad); Clean Hands (Terrill, Mark); Tommy and Clyde (Lerner, David); Spelling words (Bennett, John M.) Contributor's Notes; Jack (Lerner, David); Buried Basement (Bennett, John M.); She came out of the Trees (Masarik, Al); Snake Dancer (Case, Sandra).
The Final (and Definitive) Addendum to the Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling (2 copies; 1 of which is initialed).
Correspondence with contributors, etc., and biographical notes: Kowit, Steve; Lerner, David, Powell, Leslie; Darby, Brad; Redall, Dave; NorthSun, Nila
The Academy Awards; and other poems (Taylor, Kent); Sunset Scavengers; etc. (Robertson, Kell); Dream in the Apartment on Main Street ; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Minus the Dying (Menebroker, Ann); Energies (Menebroker, Ann); The Gap (Wyss, Greg); no luck (NorthSun, Nila); gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve); This Diamond Fish; etc. (Odam, Joyce); A little Farther Along; etc. (Robertson, Kirk); The Whore (Kryss, T); Uninvited; and other poems (King, Linda); Life and Co. (Blazekm, Douglas); THe Neighbor Girl (Bennett, John); I Mentioned Indians; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); Tuesday in a Marriage; etc. (James, Eileen).
Ghosts (Suterland, N.B.); Old Men (Terrill, Mark); Monkey Balls (Masarik, Al); Maroon (Dybek, Stuart); gagaku (Richmond, Steve).
Pilgrims (Steward, D.E.)
He would Make a Fine Bank Robber; etc. (Penfold, Gerda); Tongue; etc. (McMahon, Michael); 8/1/75; etc. (Hill , Nellie); Separations (Ginsburg, Carl); I Must Tell YOu (Mechem, James); Rented Space (Petty, Ryan); William Wantling, 7 on Style, Second Coming, 1975; etc. (Mangelsdorff, Rich); A Cathouse in Cincinnati; and other poems (Masarik, Al).
Suggestions for Inducing Apoplexy in the Forest Service (Powell, Leslie); Sphinx (Montgomery, George); Painting; etc.(Esmonde, Joe); the Great Poet (Scandalios, Alex N.); Changes; etc. (London, Jonathan); Mouthful of Braces (Terrill, Mark); Seizure; etc. (Menebroker, Ann); Madhouse Memoirs (King, Geraldine); Who's Loitering (Glen, Emilie); Country Western Station (Thrift, Carol); too much needing (Whispering Star, R); Making Love; etc. (Zegers, Kip); The Would-Be Rebels Laughed (Vincent, Ray); Blizzard Eyes (Beining, Guy); The Passing (Thomas, Gregory Kinsman); Photograph; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Outdated (Ming Tong, Lorraine); Sleeping alone (McCarthy, Joanne); I put my tongue (Rutherford, Michael).
Great Granny (Cooper, M. Truman); Somebody; etc. (Case,Sandra); My Life (Ayne, Blythe); Sudden Bachelorhood; and other poems (Taylor, Kent); Salute to York, Nebraska (Garmon, John); To Hold with the Hares and Run with the Hounds (Pollak, Feliz); the finger; etc. (Pollak, Felix); Out of Loneliness (Nicoletta, Peter).
Ginsburg, Carl; McEnteer, James; Ming Tong, Lorraine; Rob.
Beining, Guy; Stu; Hitchcock, George and Bennett, John; Sutherland, Norman B.; McCarthy, Joanne.
Case, Sandra; Whispering Star, R.; Jones, David L.; Hill, Nellie; Nicoletta, Peter; Cook, Paul.
Thomas, Gregory K.; background on Felix Pollak.
Indian money (NorthSun, Nila); Suspect in the Scarlet Hour (Johnson, Nan C.); All th Fields (Cirino, Leonard); bell jar juve (Macon, E.L.); One shaft of Sunlight (Lindner, Carl); Thrust and Parry; etc. (Matte, Robert).
Interview with Tom Robbins (Barnes, Timothy and Marie-Elise); 2 versions of.
Ballerina by the sea; and other poems (Kryss, Tom); Sisters (Joosse, Barbara M.); Compassion (Summers, Anthony J.); The Part of Her that is Silent; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); Susa; and other poems (Powell, Pamela Leslie); round trip from San Francisco (Taylor, Kent); Claudia; etc. (Kowit, Steve); She Fucks and I Fuck; etc. (Grapes, Marcus J.); this is as far; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Old Time Radio Hour (Nicoletta, Peter); snake dancer, etc. Robertson, Kirk); gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve).
Carnival (Steward, D.E).
The Incomplete Works of Richard Krech: Poems (Mangelsdorff, Rich).
Correspondence with contributor: Smith, Joan.
Photograph for cover layout.
10 pp.
6 pp.
7 pp.
10 pp.
5 pp.
12 pp.
Nursing Home (Barnes, W.D.); The Face (Skloot, Floyd); He is looking for Something Other than I Have to Give; and other poems (Menebroker, Ann); Waiting for the Bus in Ball Square (Hogan, Ed); Geo Rogers Clark Orders; etc. (Moore, Todd); Meeting and Old Friend on the Street (Nicoletta, Peter); Zero-ing In (Freek, George A.).
Dallas (Smith, Jared); La Guardia (Smith, Jared); On the Bearpaw Sea (Kryss,Tom); George Chambers (review by Beck Art); Meeting for the First Time; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); I don't know what love has got to do with happiness; and other poems (Masarik, Al);
Gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve); Questions, Answers (Beck, Art & Masarik, Al); In the garden fists; and other poems (Masarik, Al); Black Magic; and other poems (Murray, Carole).
Existential Gypsies (Bennett, John); 2 versions, 34 pp.
Gerry and I (Koertge, Ronald); My Summer Vacation (review by Kowit, Steve); Exercises in Memorizing Myself (review by Kowit, Steve); He's Read Them All (Scotellaro, Robert); Excerpts form Dreem People (Fox, Hugh); Words About the Profession (Brett, Peter).
Some Questions and Answers (Bellow, Saul); At her Funeral; Twenty- Five Years after Conception (Fericano, Paul F.); Hard Frost Warnings; For Kathy (Kooser, Ted); Evening (Thomas, Lisa); Found Under a Rock (Fanning, Patricia); Contributors' Notes.
Correspondence with contributors, etc. including biographical notes: Bennett, John; Fanning, Pat; Smith, Jared; Thomas, Lisa; Skloot, Floyd; Barnes, W.D.; Brett, Peter; Murray, Carole.
Lay of the Land (editorial); Variations (Beck, Art); Wandering (Grossman, Richard); Beck/Penfold: discussions; Call It What they Wish; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); I Grasp a Star; and other poems (Taylor, Kent).
Every August; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Mall (Reddall, Dave); Dust (Haslam, Gerald); Brown Funk (Bennett, John); Cloudburst at Harvester Home; etc. (Hughes, Dorothy); Reviews by Bennett; No (Kowit, Steve); La raza (NorthSun, Nila).
What Women Want (Michaund, Rachel); Living in the Right Life (Tidler, Charles); How you Died; etc. (Halperin, Mark); The Great Seattle Caper(Bennett); Midway (Matte.Jr, Robert); Contributors' Notes.
Drawing for issue 27 illustrations.
The True Picture; and other poems (Shihab, Naomi); Stull Tapes (Stull, Wallek, Bennett).
Punch-Drunk Fighter (Bennett, John); brush fire; and other poems (Masarik, Al); Another Cafe; etc. (Chaet, Eric); Fat Head Poem (Bukowski, Charles); the lunch wagon ... (Stone, Jennifer); correspondence: Bennett/Stone; The Nun; and other poems (Beck, Art).
Mother's Funeral; Father's Funeral (Faucher, Real); Invocation; etc. (Kowit, Steve); Reviews (Blazek, Doug; Steward, D.E.); In the Half-Poiint Time of Night (Menebroker, Ann); Contributors' Notes.
Additional manuscript material that does not appear in the printed issue; includes: Dolly Gonightly (Ingram, Alyce); note from Ingram (4 pp.)
Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Blazek, Doug; Bunch, Grant; Haslam, Gerald.
The Beast (Bennett, John); fossil; and other poems (Masarik, Al).
Crossing (Steward, D.E.); Gas Masks in the Attic (Matte, Jr., Robert); "Three ..." (Vargas, R.);Brooklyn Sundays; etc.(Skoot, Floyd); Birth Day (Speer, Laurel); Protecting the Innocent(Chambers, George); For a Wizard Lover(Warren, Lisa); Not for Me (Zawadiwsky, Christine); We were Twins in the ... (Penfold, Gerda).
The Cleveland Underground Poetry Scene (Taylor, Kent); Contributors' Notes, etc.
Preliminary layout planning, 19 pp.
News after Midnight; What Men Always Do in the Woods; A Minor Crisis; A logical conclusion; The Crazy Girl on the Bus; How Talent Gets Discovered; Lebensraum; The Ten Day Final Demand; Anybody who eats ice cream like you do must know where it 's at; Beautiful people; Discount Coupons and Special Offers for the Smart Shopper; La-La; At McDonald's Celebration of Life; Standoff; On Patriotism; Paranoia
Frozen; There is a paucity ...; what is poetry doing...; So you would know...; Garden Work; Substitute; The day the war ended; The first time I played baseball; Hornets; Heat; This business of growing ...; Our Friend Jane; The Hare Krishna Days; We have Not Yet Sold out to the Metric System; A couple of fatsoes; I have this way; I finally read Saroyan; The hermit across the alley has...; Months; Dancing in the kitchen to Zorba the Greek when the music goes off; The Wheelbarrow Lady; Postage Due; Concentration; Bloopers; New Systems; Knowing About Things.
Electric stencils/layout, 6 pp.
Arts festival publicity (boards)
Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #1, 6 pp.; all in John Bennett's hand.
Circular letter (printed) from Police Mutual Benefit Associations
4 newsclippings.
Orientation, in John Bennett's hand, 3 pp.
Interview with Paul Chassaignac (Bennett, John), 9 pp,; horoscope, 1 p.
Crime, in John Bennett's hands, 4 pp.; Dirksen Becomes RightWinger, in John Bennett's hand, 2 pp.; Coffee House Fable, in John Bennett's hand, 1 p.
-the park?... ; the Brothers Grimm minds were blown today; New Orleans #1 (Sadler, Bob), 3 pp.; Gift Wrapping; and other poems (Hamilton, Fritz) , 6 pp.; Well now you just be sure you dehorn spermatozoa...; and other poems (Steiner, Kurt), 4 pp.
Comments concerning Mr. Clean, in John Bennet's hand, 2 pp.
Correspondence: one letter from Bennett to William Holliday.
9 newsclippings.
John Bennett's list (below) of possible contributors contains names of individuals whose correspondence is not includeed here. These are preceded by an asterisk. Possible contributors: Norbert Blei; Charles Bukowski; Jerry Bumpus; Albert Drake; Hugh Fox; Marcus J. Grapes; Alyce Ingram; Curt Johnson; Linda King; Rich Mangelsdorff; Harold Norse; Gerda Penfold; Charles Plymell; Robert Peters; Charles Potts; Tom Kryss; Lynn Savitt; Carl Weissner; Willie and others.
"Kamikaze Rejects was an attempt in the winter of 1979/80 to shape up another publication after the demise of Vagabond in the summer of 1979. A lot of preliminary contacts were made, but the magazine never got off the ground."
Identification of material by Bennett; 5 TLS to: Beck. Art; Bernstein, Jesse; Blei, Norbert; Bukowski, Charles; Bumpus, Jerry
5 TLS to: Corso, Gregory; Drake, Albert; Dybeck, Dennis; Fox, Hugo; Grapes, Marcus Jack.
7 TLS to: Ingram, Alyce; Johnson, Curt; Kaufman, Bob; Kryss, Tom; Masarik, Al; Orem, James; Saunder, Jack.
2 TLS from Norbert Blei
1 TLS from Charles Bukowski.
1 ACS, 2 TLS from Jerry Bumpus
3 TLS from Walt Curtis, two with TMs on verso.
1 TLS from Albert Drake with announcement on verso.
1 TLS from Dennis Dybeck
1 TLS from Hugo Fox.
1 TLS from Marcus Jack Grapes.
1 TLS from Alyce Ingram.
1 TLS from Diane Kruchkow
1 TLS from Tom Kryss
1 TLS from Annie Menebroker
1 TLS from George Montgomery
1 TLS from Harold Norse
1 TLS from Gerda Penfold
1 ALS from RJS
1 ALS from Lynn Sawit with order form
1 TLS from D.E. Steward
1 TLS from Ed Swan
1 TLS from Charles Tidler
Generated While Participating in the Controversial November 1977 Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Grants Committee.
Bennett: 2 letters to CCLM; both Feb 8/78 (TLS) An Elaboration Upon Harry Smith's "Neatness Counts". Reflections on the fall of 77 Grants Committee.
Smith: Rought draft of Smith's statement to be delivered to CCLM Board.
Kruchkow: Statement on Fall CCLM Grants; typed and widely distributed.
Judy Hogan, Chair, COSMEP, South, CODA; Richard Morris, Coordinator, COSMEP
4 letters
5 letters
4 letters
2 letters; not dates
Charles Plymell, no date; Cross Cultural Review, no date; Steve Lewandowski.
Kruchkow; Richard Morris, COSMEP; Louise, uncertain of identity but letter specifically about grants committee
CCLM; Richard Morris, COSMEP; Sasha Newborn, Mudborn Press; Robert Novak; A.J.Poulin
June Fortess, NY State Council on the Arts; Len Fulton, SPR. To NEA, not CCLM; Robert Novak, The Windless Orchard.
Aspect; Assassin; Bachy; Backwash; Bad Breath
Berkeley Poet's Coop; Bitterroot; Black Jack; Boston Gay Review
Centering; Chomo-Uri; Choomia; Coffeehouse; Contact II.
CQ (Contemporary Quarterly); Dakotah Territory; Daimon; Delirium; Diana's Bi-monthly.
East River Review; Euterpe; Flute; Gargoyle; Ghost Dance.
Greater Golden Hills; Poetry Express; Green's Magazine; Grove; Gub Street
Harbinger; Heirs; Hills
Illuminations; Image; Intrepid; Itinerary
Juice; Kansas Quarterly; La - Bas.
Madrona; Mr.Cogito; Museum of Temporary Art; Nausea; New Earth Review (NY): Northeast Rising Sun
Phantasm; Pivot; Poetry Mailing List; Primavera; Quarterly West.
Remington Review; Rockbottom; Room.
Salthouse; San Francisco Review of Books; Slick Press Poetry Mag; Song; Spirit That moves Us; Sun & Moon.
Unearth; Unmuzzled Ox; Washington Review of the Arts; West Coast Poetry Review; Wild Iris.
Yellow Brick Road; Zunkuft
AIEE; AIS-EIRI; American Poetry Review; Beloit Poetry Journal; Beyond Baroque.
Bridge; Charloteer; Cottonwood Review; Drama Review; Dramatika.
Driftwood East; Hudson River Anthology; Impact; Indiana Writes; Interstate.
Just Buffalo; Lowlands Review; Modularist Review; Montemora; Nassau Review
New America; New Earth Review (North Carolina); New Infinity Review; New Jersey Poetry Monthly; New River Review.
Nicotine Soup; Nimrod; Not Guilty; NRG
Open Places; Pawn Review; Peace & Pieces Review; Pembroke; Penny Dreadful.
Periodical of Art; In Nebraska (Pan); Personal injury; Pocket Poetry; Pulp; Quarterly Review of Literature.
Review; Roof; Rufus; Samisdat; Seems.
Shankpainter; Shout in the Street; South & West; Star-Web Paper; Third Eye.
This; Unspeakable Visions; Uroboros; U.S. 1 Worksheets; U.T. Review.
Valhalla; Vile; Village Idiot; Voyeur; Washout Review.
Weid; Western Poetry Quarterly; Westigan Review; White Pine Press; Windless Orchard.
Xalman; Yale Theatre.
Agni Review; Brilliant Corners; Fac Rac; Field; Grilled Flowers.
Hudson Review; Lake Superior Review; Latin American; Literary Review; Momentum; Moon & Lion Tailes.
New Renaissance; Northwest Review; Quartet; Shantih; Small Moon
Stroker; Tooth of Time Review.
3 lists of magazines and recommendations; memo from Patricia Jones; handwritten not with figures.
Agenda book furnished by CCLM prior to grants committee meeting, 73 pp; front cover binder of the above.
Post-committee reports from three members of grants committee prior to committee
Four memoranda from CCLM to grants committee.
"COSMEP" was at first the Conference of Small Magazine/Press Editors and Publishers (held in Berkely, California, in May 1968). It resulted in the "new COSMEP", Cooperative of Small Magazine/Press Editors and Publishers.
Letter of resignation to membership at large, with two rough drafts (TLS from John Bennett.
7 letters to JB
5 letters to COSMEP
12 letters to JB
4 letters to COSMEP (Morris)
1 letter to JB
2 letters to JC
1 letter to JB
2 letters to JB with name and address slip.
1 letter to PF
1 letter to JB
1 letter to DK
1 letter to JB
1 letter to HF.
1 letter to JB
2 letters to LF.
2 letters to JB
1 letter to JH
1 letter to JB, n.d; 1 letter to MM
4 letters to JB
4 letters to JP
7 letters to JB
2 letters to AP
3 letters to JB
1 letters to ADW
Questions; directors; conferences; board reports; to do; being done; newsletter information; under "to do" and "being done" are included: reading circuit; technical pamphlets; IRS letter; prison project.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to discussion of financial matters.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to discussion of by-laws.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to membership list.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to Davis, California meetings, etc.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to San Francisco Book Fair.
Notes and memoranda pertaining to Definitions Committee
Notes and memoranda pertaining to COSMEP Newsletter issues.
AAUP news release; 1 letter from JB to AAUP; 1 letter from NEA to JB.
Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. 2 copies of letter itself.
Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Accompanying letter to Saturday Review, etc.
Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Rough draft
Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Research notes, 9 pp.
2 letters from JB to NEA
2 letters from NEA to JB
1 letter from NEA to Saturday Review & other mags mentioned above
3 letters from Harry Smith (The Newsletter) to JB
2 letters to Smith from JB
Literature programs announcements from National Council on the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts.
Literature programs announcements from National Council on the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines announcements, etc.
Press release for Association of American University Presses; Xeroxed articles from "Saturday Review" and "ChicagoLand".
Invisible City contains four controversial essays by Paul Vangelisti, Franco Beltrametti, John McBride, and Neeli Cherry, pp 25, 26
Invisible City; contains Bennett's reply to controversial essays of Vangelisti, Beltrametti, McBride, and Cherry and also contains McBride's and Vangelisti's reply to Bennett, pp. 29, 30.
TMs "Several Essays: Paul Vangelisti, Franco Beltrametti, John McBride, and Neeli Cherry", by John Bennett, 4 99.; this is the manuscript form of Bennett's printed reply above.
Vagabond Supplement, 8 pp.,containing the discussion and controversy described above, reprinted by Vagabond, with John Bennett's final statement.
2 letters from JB to Tom Montag of Margins
1 letter from TM to JB
1 letter from John McBride (IC Ed.) to JB; 1 letter from RJS (Cleveland poet/publisher) to JB; 1 letter from Sally McCluskey to JB; 1 letter from "Henry", Vagabond subscriber, to JB
#1 (Signed by most contributors).
#3
#5 (English)
#5 (German issue)
#6
#8
#9
#11
#12
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
#21
#22
#23/24 (with supplement).
#25 (with supplement)
#26
#27
#28
#29
#30
#1 (signed by author)
#2 (signed by author)
#3 (signed by author)
#4 (signed by author)
#5 (signed by author)
#6 (signed by author)
#7 (signed by author)
#8 (signed by author)
#9 (signed by author)
An End to Pinball, Al Masarik (signed).
Invitation to a Dying, Masarik (signed).
Post Card from Europe, Masarik (signed).
Red Mountain Agatha Christie & Love (signed).
French Quarter Interviews.
Mr. Clean #2.
The Vagabond Anthology.
The Worms Are Singing, Jerry Bumpus (1st ed., signed).
The Worms Are singing, Jerry Bumpus (2nd ed., signed).
Lace and a Bobbitt, Curt Johnson (signed).
Sweet and Dirty, Linda King (1st ed., signed).
Sweet and Dirty, Linda King (2nd ed., signed).
Six Poets
Vagabond order form with publicity.
Two letters from Charles Bukowski.
Bukowski drawings (originals) done for Six Poets. Includes drawings of: John Bennett, Joel Deutsch, Ronald Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, Ann Menebroker, Gerda Penfold, John Thomas.
Film drawing and Planning sheet for Six Poets.
Cover film & title page material for first edition of Six Poets.
Cover Layout for second edition of Six Poets.
Served as Vagabond's filing cabinet.
Found in a spring-cleaning rubbish heap next to The American Legion in New Orleans; the majority of Vagabond's issues were printed on it in New Orleans, San Francisco, and Ellensburg. In stacks - see II.12, Museum Objects.
For more details, see following Box 26 fd. 5.
For more details, see following Box 45, fd.12
For more details, see the following Box 45, fd.12