Larry Fagin Papers

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Larry Fagin Papers

n.d., 1958-1977.

Born in 1937, Larry Fagin is a poet affiliated with the New York School.

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Saroyan, Aram.

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Aram Saroyan was born 25 September 1943, the son of playwright William Saroyan and Carol (Marcus) Saroyan, later Carol Matthau . He attended high school at the Trinity School in New York City. He attended college at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University, but never completed a college degree. In the late 1960s Saroyan experimented with marijuana and began to develop a career as a poet. Director Mike Nichols wanted to cast Saroyan in the lead of his movie The Grad...

Groffsky, Maxine

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Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983

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Stepanchev, Stephen

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Silverton, Michael

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Knott, Bill

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Johnson, Ray

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Biography "The most famous unknown artist in New York" - this is how Grace Glueck, a New York Times reporter, characterized Ray Johnson after his collage exhibition in 1965. He was called the father of mail art, one of the first performance artists, a precursor Pop Art, and he is rarely absent from studies of fluxus. His connections extend beyond even these movements through his global postal performance, the New York Correspondence School. ...

Cott, Jonathan.

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Writer, editor and poet Jonathan Cott, was born in 1942, the day before Christmas, in New York City. He attended Columbia University for his undergraduate work, received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and studied at the University of Essex, England as a Fulbright fellow, 1967-1969. Returning to the United States in 1970 he became an editor at Rolling Stone until 1975 when he returned to New York to be executive editor of Stonehill Publishing Company. In 1976 Cott wro...

Robbins, Jonathan

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Guston, Philip, 1913-1980

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xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">Painter. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78587878 Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo...

Picard, Lil

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Art critic, performance artist, sculptor and painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Lil Picard papers, 1955-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565746 ...

MacAdams, Phoebe

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Stanton, Johnny

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Morrison, Madison

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Grossinger, Richard, 1944-....

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Hornick, Lita R., 1927-

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d. January 21, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122362920 ...

Hall, Donald, 1928-....

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Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...

Yavatsky, Bill

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Hoyem, Andrew

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Young, Lamonte

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Heliczer, Piero

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Heliczer and Freeman are American poets. From the description of Letters to Arthur Freeman, 1959-1964 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83367689 From the guide to the Letters to Arthur Freeman, 1959-1964 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Whalen, Philip

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Biography Philip Whalen (1923-2002) graduated from Reed College in 1951 on the GI Bill after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II. It was at Reed that Whalen met and became friends with poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch. Several years later, Whalen was one of the poets who read with Snyder and others at the historic Six Gallery reading in San Francisco on October 13, 1955. Allen Ginsberg first performed his poem, Howl, at the Six Galle...

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Giorno, John

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Ammons, Archie

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Mynes, Jess, 1970-

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Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...

Mennes, Marianne

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Gregg, Linda

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Allen, Michael

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Adam, Helen, 1909-1993

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American poet born in Scotland. From the description of Postcard to Diane di Prima, 1967 Nov. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18347343 Helen Adam was born on Dec. 2, 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland and died in New York City on Sept. 19, 1993. She was a writer of Scottish ballads and later participated in the Beat poetry movement. From the description of Papers, 1956-1976. (Kent State University). WorldCat record id: 40718661 ...

Dash, Robert

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Williams, Vince

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Williams, Mason

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Tuttle, Richard, 1941-....

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Waldman, John

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Mangelsdorf, Rich

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Mathews, Harry

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Gitin, David

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David Gitin edited BRICOLEUR. He published George Oppen and often sought his literary and personal advice. There is no correspondence from the periods when both Gitin and Oppen were in San Francisco and could talk in person. From the description of Papers, 1968-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571674 ...

Gilfillan, Merrill, 1945-

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Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...

Monnier, Jackie

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Anderson, David

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Epithet: of Add MS 29117 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000386 Epithet: Lieutenant; Lieutenant -General 1882 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000385 Patrick Adamson (1537-1592) was a highly controversial archbishop of St Andrews. Born in Perth, son of a merchant, he studied at St Mary’s College, St Andrews, f...

MacAdams, Lewis

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Martin, John, 1741-1820

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Brinkmann, Rolf-Dieter

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Berrigan, Edmund (Ted)

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Golde, Morris

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Anderson, Elliott.

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Lustig, Shelly

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Brodecky, William

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Wilkie, Britt

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Katz, Alex, 1927-....

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Painter; New York City. From the description of Alex Katz papers, 1953-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78054299 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Alex Katz : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343168 Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Alex Katz interview, 1969 Oct. 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83634712 Alex Katz (1927- ) ...

Ellingham, Lew

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Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006

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American poet Kunitz won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 for SELECTED POEMS and held the position of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976. In 2000 he was named United States Poet Laureate. He has also translated the work of a number of Russian poets. From the description of Atlantic Monthly Press author files of Stanley Kunitz, 1965-1983. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 177477000 Poet; New York, N.Y. From the...

Ginzburg, Ralph

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Katz, William

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Duncan, Robert A.

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Brainard, Joe

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Andre, Michael

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Zukofsky, Celia Thaew

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Musician, bibliographer, wife of Louis Zukofsky and mother of Paul Zukofsky. From the description of Letter : Port Jefferson, N.Y., to Thomas Babb, Purchase, N.Y., 1979 Apr. 17. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32416020 ...

Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004

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American poet associated with the Objectivist School of poetry that flourished under the influence of Louis Zukofsky during the 1930s and 40s. Rakosi also worked as a social worker and psychotherapist under the psuedonym Callman Rawley. From the description of Papers, 1903-2002. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33267001 Biography Carl Rakosi was born on November 6, 1903, in Berlin, Germany, and c...

Padgett, Ron, 1942-....

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Padgett was born on June 17, 1942, in Tulsa, OK; A.B., Columbia Univ., 1964; poetry workshop instructor, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, New York City, 1968-69; poet in various NYC Poets in the Schools programs, 1969-76; cofounded Full Court Press publishers in 1973; writer in the community, South Carolina Arts Commission, 1976-78; director, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, 1978-81; director of publications, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, beginning in 1982; published works include: Seventeen : col...

Rich, Robin

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Knight, Arthur

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Notley, Alice, 1945-....

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Alice Notley, born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945, is a recognized American poet, author, and editor. Among the numerous collections of verse that she has published are Incidentals in the Day World (Angel Hair Books, 1973), When I Was Alive, (Vehicle Edition, 1980), Waltzing Matilda, (Kulchur Foundation, 1981), Margaret and Dusty (Coffee House Press, 1985), and How Spring Comes (Toothpaste Press, 1981). In addition to her poetry, Notley wrote a short autobiography entitled Tell Me Again (Am Here Bo...

Riley, Peter J., MSC

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Rezek, John

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Weiners, John

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Carey, Steve

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Malanga, Gerard

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American author, poet, periodical editor of the first two issues of Inter/view, and of Intransit: the Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga monster issue (1968). From the guide to the Gerard Malanga Papers, 1944-1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in New York in 1943, and studied at the School of Industrial Art and Wagner College. He was Andy Warhol's chief assistant from...

Raworth, Tom

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Tom Raworth was born and grew up in London. During the 1970s he travelled and worked in the United States and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge, in which city he still lives. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the USA, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians, painters, and other po...

Alexander, Paul

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Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997

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Cyberpunk author and performance artist. From the description of Papers, 1975-1996 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271515 Cyberpunk author and performance artist. Acker died in 1997. From the description of Papers, 1973-1978. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271575 From the description of Kathy Acker papers, 1973-1996 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33429120 d. 1996. ...

Obenzinger, Hilton.

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Schiff, Harris

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Harris Schiff, New York City poet, was part of the so-called second generation of New York School poets that arose during the 1960s and included Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, and Joe Brainard. Schiff was associated with The Poetry Project, a poetry organization established in 1966, operating out of St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City. The New York Poets of this period were influenced by art and their work contained much of the same humor and collaborative spirit as their ...

Wiater, Michael

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DuMont, Reinhold

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Vega, Janine

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MacInnis, Jamie

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Wachtel, Andi

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Rivers, Larry

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Snow, Richard

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Bland, Peter

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Weingarten, Don

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Elmslie, Kenward

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An American poet, writer and lyricist associated with the New York School, Kenward Elmslie was born in New York City in 1929. The grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, Elmslie graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in literature and began his writing career as a lyricist and librettist for theatre and musicals, including The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966) and The Glass Harp (1972). He published stories, short plays and poetry in small magazines and collections; collaborated with graphic a...

Dorsky, Nick

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Greenwald, Joan

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Bunting, Basil

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Although British educator, journalist, and poet Basil Bunting has published numerous books of poetry, most critics consider Briggflatts: an autobiography his best work. Bunting was born on March 1, 1900, in Scotswood, Northumberland, England and died on April 17, 1985, in Hexham, England. From the description of Briggflatts : an autobiography : typescript, 1965. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 503472339 British modernist poet. From the descr...

Allen, Donald, 1912-2004

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Editor and publisher. From the description of Papers, 1957-1971. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415680 American editor and publisher, born in Iowa in 1912. Allen was an editor at Grove Press for sixteen years, where his most important work was the anthology The New American Poetry. He founded the Four Seasons Foundation and Grey Fox Press. Allen also was the translator of works of Eugène Ionesco. Allen has had a significant impact on the development of p...

Amirkhanian, Charles

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Miller, Henry.

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Biography Henry Valentine Miller was born on December 26, 1891, in the Yorkville section of New York City to Heinrich Miller and Louise Marie Nieting, second generation Americans of German ancestry. He was raised in Brooklyn where the family moved after his first year. After graduating from high school in 1909, Miller entered City College of New York, but, unable to comform to the academic routine, left after only two months. Over the next te...

O'Gallagher, Liam

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Cohen, Keith, 1945-....

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Dorn, Edward

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American poet Edward Dorn was born April 2, 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois. Edward Dorn attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina for several years, receiving a BA in 1954. Although poets associated with the college have often been grouped together as the "Black Mountain poets," Dorn has suggested: "I think I'm rightly associated with the Black Mountain “school,” not because of the way I write, but because I was there." Dorn's most influential and highly accla...

Krauss, Ruth

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Ruth Krauss was born in 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland . She attended several universities and institutes. She received her bachelor's degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts . In 1940, she married David Leisk (known as Crockett Johnson ). From 1944 until 1979, Krauss published many children's works, some of which she illustrated herself. Other children's books were collaborations with her husband, usually employing Krauss's text and Johnson's illustrations. Krauss's career as a wri...

Oldenberg, Patty

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Levitt, Annabel

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Gitin, Maria

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Burckhardt, Rudy

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Photographer and filmmaker; New York, N.Y. b. 1914 d. 1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Rudy Burckhardt, 1993 Jan. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205989 Burckhardt, Rudy, 1914-1999, Photographer and filmmaker of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Rudy Burckhardt, 1993 Jan. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 245522792 d. August 1, 1999. From the description of Art...

Katz, Vincent

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Herd, Dale

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Schneeman, George

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American artist George Schneeman was born March 11, 1934, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received a BA in Philosophy and Literature from St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota and did graduate work in English Literature at the University of Minnesota. He later served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960. In addition to his collage, frescoes, ceramics and other media, Schneeman has created numerous collaborative works with poets such as Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Michael Brownstein, Ron Padgett, Anne W...

Berkson, William

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Tysh, George

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Biggs, Thazarbell

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Tate, James

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Quist, Susan

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Goldstein, Richard

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Sanders, Ed

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James Edward Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on August 17, 1939. In 1958, at the age of 17, he left the University of Missouri, hitchhiked to New York City, and enrolled at New York University . Between 1961 and 1963, Sanders participated in a number of nonviolent demonstrations against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. At a peace vigil in August 1961, Sanders was fined and later jailed for refusing to pay. While in jail, Sanders wrote his first book, Poem from Jail, ...

Snyder, Gary

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Biography Biographical Narrative Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...

Turner, Eve

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Greenwald, Ted, 1959-

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Mattingly, George

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Batki, John

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Lopate, Phillip

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Hollo, Anselm.

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Kimberley, Nick

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Persky, Stan, 1941-

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Rosenberg, David

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Kyger, Joanne

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Joanne Kyger is a West Coast poet who emerged as the Beat movement was beginning to wane in the 1960s. Kyger attended the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1952 to 1956, where she took classes with Hugh Kenner and Paul Wienphal both of whom were important to the development of her poetry. In 1957 she met John Wieners at The Place, a poetry bar, and through him met Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer; it was also during this time that she first met Gary Snyder. Later Kyger moved to the Eas...

Faulwell, Dean

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Harper & Row

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Borregard, Angela & Ebbe

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Brodey, James

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Schuchat, Simon

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Schuyler, James

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Biography Born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, James Marcus Schuyler experienced a peripatetic childhood. His family lived for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. His parents divorced early in Schuyler's childhood and he remained with his mother and step-father. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Buffalo, New York, and two years later to East Aurora, a suburb ...

Angell, Gail

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Scharf, A.

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Hadler, ...

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Clark, Tom M.

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Payne, J. and M.

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O'Hare, Lynn

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Johnson, Nicholas

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Glover, Albert

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Inglis, Sandra

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Baxter, Glenn

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Berrigan, Sandra (Alper)

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VanNewkirk, Allen

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Senauke, Alan

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Andrews, Bruce

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Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-....

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Ruscha, Ed

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Edson, Russell

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Lima, Frank

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Ayden, Erje

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North, Charles, 1941-

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Bly, Robert

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For details of Robert Bly's biography, see: Robert Bly papers (Mss 81) . From the guide to the Robert Bly Men's Movement series, 1980-1990s, 2001, 2003-2004, 2006, 2009, undated, 1980-1990s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) From the guide to the Robert Bly Plays manuscripts series, 1950s-1990s, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) Fr...

Harwood, Lee

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Kohler, Michael

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Friedman, Richard

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Dawson, Fielding

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Lowenfels, Walter

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Perreault, John, 1937-2015

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John Lucas Perreault was a poet, art curator, art critic and artist. Perreault was born in Manhattan and raised in Belmar and other towns in New Jersey. He studied briefly at Montclair State Teachers College, after which he enrolled in a poetry workshop at the New School for Social Research. His first book of poetry, Camouflage, was published in 1966, followed by Luck (1969) and Harry (1974). Perreault was an editorial associate for ARTnews in the 1960s, an art critic for The Village Voice (1966...

Warsh, Lewis

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American poet, novelist, and editor Lewis Warsh was born in New York City in 1944. He received his B.A. and M.A. from City College of the City University of New York and has taught at various institutions since 1973, including Queens College, Farleigh Dickinson University, SUNY Albany, and Long Island University. In 1965, Warsh attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference where he met poet Anne Waldman; during the late 1960s, Warsh was active among a group of New York poe...

Abbott, Keith, 1944-....

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Mikolowski, Ken

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In the 1960s Ken Mikolowski founded the Alternative Press in Detroit's Cass Corridor with his late wife, the painter Ann Mikolowski. As the press's editor for 30 years, Mikolowski published, as unbound letterpress-printed mail art, the work of local Detroit, Michigan poets as well as nationally recognized Beat and Black Mountain poets, including Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Ken Mikolowski letter : Detroit, Mich., to Gary [Snyder?], 1970 Jan. 16. (Unive...

Brown, Rebecca, M.D.

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Violi, Paul, 1944-2011

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Owen, Maureen, 1943-

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Maureen Owen, poet, publisher, and editor, was born in 1943 in Graceville, Minnesota. Owen began publishing and editing Telephone Books and Telephone magazine in 1969. During the 1970s, she worked as coordinator and director (1976-1980) of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City. From the description of Maureen Owen collection of Greenwich Village poetry, 1975-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179195 American poet, editor and publisher, M...

Ryguller, Rolf

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Ratcliff, Carter

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Sorrentino, Gilbert

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David Markson was born in Albany, New York, on December 20, 1927. He received his B.A. from Union College in 1950 and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. He has written seven novels and a critical study. From the description of Letters to David Markson, 1998 Sept. 3-2000 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571237 Louis Mackey was known for his works on Kierkegaard, Saint Augustine and Medieval Philosophy. His published work also included literary criticism, lite...

Murry, Catherine

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Nolan, Pat

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Bartlett, Jennifer

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LeSueur, Joe

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Prichett, Henry

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Ferrari, Mary, 1952-

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Berkson, Bill.

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Aebi, Irene

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Plymell, Charles

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The American writer Charles Plymell was born in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1935. During the 1960s he lived in San Francisco and was associated with the Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1966, Plymell married Pamela Beach, a relative of Sylvia Beach, the owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris and original publisher of Ulysses. In 1970 he received an M.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University. Plymell has been editor and publisher of Cherry Valley Editi...

Schjedahl, Peter

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Wylie, Andrew

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Boone, Bruce, 1940-

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Bruce Boone was born in Portland, Oregon in 1940, and he earned a BA at Saint Mary's College. He is the author of many books, including Bruce Boone Dismembered: Poems, Stories, and Essays, Century of Clouds (edited by Rob Halpern), My Walk with Bob, The Truth About Ted, and LaFontaine (in collaboration with Robert Glück). His work is often associated with the New Narrative movement. He has translated works by Georges Bataille, Pascale Quignard, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Boone lives in San Franc...

Koller, James

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Poet, novelist and editor of Coyote's Journal and Coyote Books; originally of Illinois, later of San Francisco, Calif., New Mexico, and Brunswick, Me.; b. James Anthony Koller, 1936. From the description of James Koller papers, 1959-1986. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28412840 Born in 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois, Koller is an American poet, novelist, editor and publisher. Koller obtained his B.A. from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois in 1958; h...

Fener, Rofi

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Fraser, Kathleen

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Davidson, (Robert) Michael

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Godfrey, John.

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Epithet: student at Hart Hall, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000702.0x000332 Epithet: of Hertingfordbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000702.0x00032f Epithet: of South Creake British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0003e4 Epithet...

Sonbert, Warren, 1947-1995

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Filmmaker and critic Warren Sonbert was a central figure of American avant-garde cinema for more than thirty years, known especially for his rhapsodic style of montage. Sonbert was also active as a critic and theorist throughout his career....

Hackman, Neil

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Poet, editor of the little magazine Out there (no. 1-7, 1973-1975). From the description of Papers, 1973-1975. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 16685971 ...

Coolidge, Clark, 1939-....

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Coolidge was born Feb. 26, 1939 in Providence, RI; attended Brown Univ., 1956-58; drummer with Serpent Power, a San Francisco rock group; producer of Words (weekly hour of new poetry) at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, CA, 1969-70; author of various books of poetry, including Flag flutter and U.S. Electric (1966), Clark Coolidge (1967), Space (1970), The so (1971), Suite V. (1973), The maintains (1974), and Polaroid (1975); co-editor of Joglars, 1964-66. From the description of Correspondence, ...

Katz, Ada, 1928-....

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Wife of painter Alex Katz. From the description of Ada Katz papers, 1974-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83923128 ...

Lally, Michael

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Rosenthal, Bob and Shelley

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Platt, Charles

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Corbett, Bill

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Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...

Seidman, Hugh, 1940-

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Frank, Peter

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Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

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Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...

Polk, Brigid

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Waldman, Frances

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McNaughton, Duncan

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Marshall, Ed

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Malamude, Steve

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Brownstein, Michael, 1943-....

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Michael Brownstein (1943-), poet and novelist. Anne Waldman (1945-), poet, performance artist, teacher, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouc School of Disembodied Poetics. From the description of Michael Brownstein papers relating to Anne Waldman, 1968-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186077 ...

Dine, Jim

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Heller, Michael

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Benson, Steve

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Solomon, Carl

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Lasnak, Valerie

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Coleman, Victor

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Rockwell, Martha

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Silliman, Ronald, 1946-....

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American poet. From the description of Disappearance of the word, appearance of the world : signed typescript, [1976?]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18849645 American poet, writer, and editor, born in Pasco, Washington, in 1946. Has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life, and is associated with the Language School of writers. Attended Merritt College, San Francisco State Univ., and the Univ. of California a...

Joris, Pierre.

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Davies, Alan

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Fagin, Larry

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Larry Fagin was born in 1939. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English Literature, and did graduate work at the Gutenberg Institute in Mainz, Germany . From 1971-1976 he was co-director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City, and he edited a poetry magazine, Adventures in Poetry, during this time. He founded the Danspace project and directed Danspace from 1975-1980. He has been a faculty member at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, since 1975 and dir...

Goodell, Larry, 1935-

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