Reform Schools
The heading of this category takes its cue from a comment attributed to Ted Berrigan to the effect that if Bill Berkson was New York School then everyone else was “reform school.” “The New York School of Poets” gets a fair share of attention in posts on Notley, Carey, O’Hara, Owen, Padgett, Codrescu, and the afore mentioned Berrigan and Berkson. “A California School of New York Poets” is also given space, the likes of which would include Tom Clark, Keith Kumasen Abbott, and Pat Nolan among others. Anselm Hollo and The Actualist also receive their due as does Paul Blackburn. Minimalism gets a humorous parsing. And The Lang Gang, represented in posts on Scalapino and Bromige, are given a thoughtful appreciation. Bookstores and little magazines come in for consideration as well with the fable small press nook at City Lights as does Keith Kumasen Abbott’s legendary mimeo magazine Blue Suede Shoes. And yet this barely represents the tip of the tip of the poetry iceberg.
Caveat Lector: some of the post below are replicated under comparable headings elsewhere.
The Poetics of Defiance
Notley Noir
Steve Carey, Smith Going Backward by Pat Nolan
Way Way West by Steven Lavoie
Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary All Star Reading by Steven Lavoie
Someone Else’s Paul Blackburn
Contributors Notes by Pat Nolan
Minimalist Poetry
At A Secret Location
Don’t Mess With Bill
In Conversation With Maureen Owen
The [Attempted] Assassination of Ted Berrigan
Some Assembly Required
Into The Heart Of Wetness by Pat Nolan
Meditation In A Big Cabin by Pat Nolan
I Remember Tom Clark by Pat Nolan
hard as nails by Carol Ciavonne
Blue Suede Shoes Redux; The Specimen Issue
Disfigured Iambics by Andrew Schelling
Needles Auto by Pat Nolan
“A Continuous Fabric (Nerve Movie?)” Part One by Bruce Holsapple
“A Continuous Fabric (Nerve Movie?)” Part Two by Bruce Holsapple
David Bromige: Always Better Than You Thought by Pat Nolan
The New Black Bart Poetry Society 