Hugh Fox is a poet, scholar, teacher and archaeologist who since 1968 has been teaching at Michigan State University. He has some 66 books to his credit, and has been a pivotal and enduring presence in the small press market. He started Ghost Dance: the International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry in 1968 while a teacher at Loyola in Los Angeles. Ghost Dance would later give rise to Ghost Dance Press which published works by Fox, as well as Millie Wicklund and Helen Daberstein, among others. The magazine attracted a great number of notable contemporary poets, and incorporated Latino material as well as providing Spanish and English translations of most contributions. Contributors included: Charles Bukowski, Sam Cornish, Lucia Fox, Raquel Jodorowsky, Ben Hiatt and Richard Morris. An anthology of Ghost Dance material was published in 1994 by Whitston Press.
From the guide to the Ghost Dance Archive, 1967-1969, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)
