Papers relating to Blind Date and New Blind Date 1979-2005 1987-1998

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Papers relating to Blind Date and New Blind Date 1979-2005 1987-1998

Collection consists of production files, audio recordings, and printed and other materials relating to the literary magazines Blind Date and New Blind Date. The production files contain submissions of short fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews, many from San Francisco area writers, including instructors and students at the New College of California poetics program. Contributors include: Tom Clark, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Jack Foley, Gloria Frym, Dick Gallup, Amy Gerstler, Jack Hirschman, Anselm Hollo, Bill Knott, Richard Kostelanetz, Jonathan Lethem, David Meltzer, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Andrew Schelling, and others. In additon to the production files, there are several audio recordings of interviews with Bay Area writers and artists, including Jim Carroll, Howard Hart, and William Talcott, as well as the vendor's item-level description of the archive.

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Lethem, Jonathan.

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Gerstler, Amy

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Kostelanetz, Richard

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Richard Kostelanetz was born on May 14, 1940, in New York, NY. He is the son of Boris Kostelanetz, a lawyer, and Ethel (Cory) Kostelanetz. He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1962 with honors. He pursued graduate study at King's College in London from 1964 to 1965 and received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1966. Richard Kostelanetz is a writer, visual artist, critic, poet, composer, filmmaker, video artist, lecturer and editor of the avant-garde. In 1971, employing a radically fo...

Dorn, Edward

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Poet, novelist, and translator; b. 1929. From the description of Edward Dorn papers, 1956-1993. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28417585 Author. From the description of Letters 1959-1965. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702669723 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 associ...

Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

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Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New Coll...

Carroll, Jim, 1949-2009

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Poet, writer, musician, and actor Jim Carroll was born August 1, 1950, in New York City. By the time he was eighteen years old, Carroll had established a reputation as an emerging poet. Most of his writing is autobiographical, describing life in New York, friends, and his ten-year heroin addiction. Carroll’s poetry collections include Organic Trains (1967), Four Ups and One Down (1970), Living at the Movies (1973), and The Book of Nods (1986). His nonfiction includes...

Meltzer, David J.

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Poet. From the description of Papers, 1954-1974. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49381183 From the description of Letters, 1969-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49254186 American poet. From the description of Song : signed typescript, [196-] / David Meltzer. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423138 Lionel David Meltzer, 1937-, is an American poet and musician. He is considered one of the key po...

New Blind Date

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Blind Date (1987-1991), a literary magazine edited in Berkeley, California by novelist and poet Owen Hill, published short fiction, poetry, and interviews. New Blind Date (1997-1998), also edited by Hill, ran as a limited edition newsletter focused on the contemporary poetry scene, with reviews, gossip, short fiction, and poetry. From the guide to the Papers relating to Blind Date and New Blind Date, 1979-2005, 1987-1998, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...

Hill, Owen

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Foley, Jack, 1940-

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Author of "Foley's Books, " in the ALSOP REVIEW. From the description of KPFA interview with Robert Grenier and Richard Eigner : cassette tape, 2001 March. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444982 Jack Foley is an American poet living in Oakland, California. Born in Neptune, New Jersey and educated at Cornell University, Foley moved to California in 1963 to attend U.C. Berkeley. From the description of Jack Foley miscellany, 1987-2010. (University of California, ...

Schelling, Andrew

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Clark, Tom, 1941-....

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Tom Clark wrote a biography of Edward Dorn: EDWARD DORN : A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE, 2002. Clark envisioned a 2-part biography but never completed the second volume. Some of this material would have been used in the latter. From the description of Edward Dorn papers, circa 1930-2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863675 Poet, biographer, novelist, dramatist, reviewer, and sportswriter. From the description of Tom Clark papers, 1984. (Duke University Library). Wor...

Hollo, Anselm.

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Hirschman, Jack, 1933-....

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Jack Hirschman is a Beat poet and a translator. From the description of Jack Hirschman letters : to Neeli Cherkovski, 1974. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 54322545 ...

Talcott, William, 1936-

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Blind date

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Blind Date (1987-1991), a literary magazine edited in Berkeley, California by novelist and poet Owen Hill, published short fiction, poetry, and interviews. New Blind Date (1997-1998), also edited by Hill, ran as a limited edition newsletter focused on the contemporary poetry scene, with reviews, gossip, short fiction, and poetry. From the guide to the Papers relating to Blind Date and New Blind Date, 1979-2005, 1987-1998, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...

Myles, Eileen

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Knott, Bill, 1940-

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Lethem, Jonathan

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Gallup, Dick, 1941-

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Kostelanetz, Richard

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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...

Hart, Howard, 1927-

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Born in 1927, Howard Hart was a writer, artist, and jazz musician. From the description of Howard Hart papers, circa 1960-1990. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 609706286 ...

Frym, Gloria

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Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, Frym studied writing with Robert Creeley at the University of New Mexico and later moved to San Francisco to teach creative writing at the New College of California. She has taught creative writing in the San Francisco county jail system, at the California College of the Arts, Western Connecticut State University, and the Naropa Institute. From the description of Gloria Frym papers, 1938-2007. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record ...

Gerstler, Amy, 1956-

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Amy Gerstler is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Amy Gerstler was born in 1956. She is a graduate of Pitzer College and holds an M.F.A. from Bennington College. She is now a professor in the MFA writing program at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, she taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars program, at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and the University of Southern California's Master of Pr...

New College of California

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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...