Tag Archives: Life Of Crime News Letter

Provincialism and the Gentrification of Anglo-American Poetry, Part III

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

“Socialization of culture devalues it as a form of social values which are then held to a standard and used as an admission price for exclusionary purposes.” … Continue reading →

Blue Suede Shoes Redux: The Specimen Issue

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Legend has it that that Keith Abbott joined the mimeograph underground by liberating a ream of paper from the WWSC English Department supply closet, acquiring a quire of stencils (one may say that now), and finding someone with a mimeograph … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Allen Ginsberg, Aram Saroyan, Avron Hoffman, Barbara Barracks, Bill Bathurst, Black Bart, Bob Heman, Bruce Andrews, California, California Poetry, Clifford Burke, Curtis Faville, David Gitin, Dennis Kelly, Gary Snyder, Glen Baxter, Harris Schiff, Jack Anderson, Jim Brodey, Jim Gustafson, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Larry Fagin, Life Of Crime News Letter, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Norbert Korte, Michael Sowl, Michael-Sean Lazarchuk, mimeo mags, mimeo revolution, mimeograph press, Modern Poetry, New York City, Opal L. Nations, outlaw poets, Pat Nolan, Paul Violi, Philip Whalen, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Ray DiPalma, Richard Brautigan, Richard Snyder, Ron Padgett, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Steve Carey, Steven Lavoie, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, Tom Clark, Tom Raworth | 1 Comment

I Remember Tom Clark

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

I Remember Tom Clark (with a tip of the laurel crown to Joe Brainard) by Pat Nolan I remember the first time I heard Tom Clark’s name mentioned was at the Bull’s Eye Tavern in Monterey, California in 1966 or … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Black Bart, Bolinas, California, California Poetry, Donald Guravich, Joe Brainard, Life Of Crime News Letter, Modern Poetry, New York City, outlaw poets, Pat Nolan, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Poltroon Press, Ron Padgett, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Sun & Moon, Ted Berrigan, The End (& variations thereof), The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, The Poetry Project | Leave a comment

Bromige Was Here

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Bromige Was Here Remembering David Bromige (1933-2009) by Pat Nolan David Bromige was here. Although, truth be told, he wasn’t from here. Like many coastal Northern Californians, he was from elsewhere: England, then Canada, and finally, rustication north of the … Continue reading →

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Bromige Immortalized!

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The Immortalization Of David Bromige by Steven Lavoie “The Prelude” A year or so ago my editor, knowing well my admiration and friendship with my college poetry-writing professor, sent me up to the old stomping grounds to cover a gang-bang … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Allan Kornblum, Andrei Codrescu, Bill Vartnaw, Black Bart, Bob Perelman, California, California Poetry, Cinda Kornblum, Coffee House Press, Cole Swensen, Dave Morice, David Bromige, Ezra Pound, Gillian Conoley, If Wants To Be The Same As Is, James Garrahan, John Krick, Jonah Raskin, Life Of Crime News Letter, Modern Poetry, Morty Sklar, Petaluma, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Richard Denner, Ron Silliman, Schools of Poetry, Sebastopol, Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Steven Lavoie, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The Spirit that Moves Us Press, The Ultimate Actualist Convention | 2 Comments

The [Attempted] Assassination of Ted Berrigan

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The [Attempted] Assassination of Ted Berrigan (researched & compiled by the Z-D Generation originally published in Life Of Crime in 1985) “Why is it that seven out of ten years San Francisco is a boring poetry scene, and now it’s hotter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged 80 Langton Street, Alice Notley, Andrei Codrescu, Black Bart, Denis Diderot, Ed Sanders, Emile Zola, Language School, Language Wars, Life Of Crime News Letter, Modern Poetry, New York City, outlaw poets, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Steven Lavoie, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School | 2 Comments

Showing vs. Telling, Part I

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Showing vs. Telling: Toward a Rhetoric of the Page Part 1 of 3 by Tim Hunt “The medium of writing must be, it seems, either an attempt to subvert, an attempt to ignore and hide, or an attempt to engage … Continue reading →

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The Great Broadside Swipe

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The Great Broadside Swipe and Other Proceedings of the 2nd Black Bart Poetry Society Convention Celebrating the Life and Work of Joanne Kyger (1934—2017) Commonweal Retreat Center Bolinas Calif. July 22, 2017. by Steven Lavoie Decades passed, yet she persisted. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alan Bernheimer, Alastair Johnston, Alice Notley, Alli Warren, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Valley-Fox, Anne Waldman, Arthur Okamura, Bill Hawley, Bill Porter, Black Bart, Bob Grenier, Bolinas, Buddhism, California, California Poetry, Cedar Sigo, Clifford Still, Clive Matson, David Highsmith, David Meltzer, Diana Middleton-McQuaid, Donald Allen, Donald Guravich, Duncan McNaughton, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances McDermott, G.P. Skratz, Garrett Caples, George Lakoff, George Mattingly, Gloria Frym, Grace Gomez, Jack Spicer, Jennifer Curtis, Jess, Jim Nesbit, Jim Zeno, Joanne Kyger, Joe Dunn, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Lewis MacAdams, Life Of Crime News Letter, Luis Buñuel, Margot Patterson Doss, Mark Rothko, Maureen Owen, Michael Lerner, Michael McClure, Michael Rothenberg, Michael Wolfe, Modern Poetry, Nemi Frost, outlaw poets, Patrick Reagh, Philip Whalen, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Poltroon Press, Red Pine, Richard Brautigan, Robert Duncan, Robert Zagone, Robin Blaser, Ron Loewinsohn, Ron Padgett, Stephen Ratcliffe, Steven Lavoie, The Commonweal, The New Black Bart Poetry Society | 6 Comments

The NO HAT Lecture

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

THE NO HAT LECTURE: Kerouac’s Haiku by Keith Kumasen Abbott Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus (Penguin, 2003) functions as a literary collection but also as a collection of various contemplative perceptions, intuitions of Buddhamind. Kerouac joked that he possessed “a … Continue reading →

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Edgy Dreams

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Dreaming On The Edge; Poets & Book Artists in California Alastair M. Johnston, Oak Knoll Press, 2016 Some finely crafted small books, despite the richness of their contents and the originality of their design, often pass unnoticed at the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alastair Johnston, Betsy Davids, Black Bart, Brooke Holve, California, California Poetry, Clifford Burke, Dave Hazelwood, David Meltzer, Denise Levertov, Dreaming On The Edge, Ed Ruscha, Eric Johnson, Frances Butler, Gary Snyder, Graham Mackintosh, Holbrook Teter, Jack Spicer, Jaime Robles, Joanne Kyger, judi goldberg, Kathy Walkup, Kenneth Rexroth, Les Ferriss, Life Of Crime News Letter, Michael McClure, Modern Poetry, Oak Knoll Press, Philip Whalen, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Poltroon Press, Richard Brautigan, Robert Duncan, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, William Everson | 1 Comment