Tag Archives: New York City

Needles Auto

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Needles Auto (or The Revenge of Lorine Neidecker) Alice Notley & the Novel Poem by Pat Nolan “The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace has passed.” —Simone Weil 1 It may come as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Frank O'Hara, Gaston Bachelard, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Julia Kristeva, Kenneth Koch, Modern Poetry, Needles, New York City, Paris, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Ron Padgett, Schools of Poetry, Ted Berrigan, The New American Poetry, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School | 1 Comment

The Poet As Cynic

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The Poet As Cynic Carl Wendt, poet and literary factotum, still adjusting to being awarded the megabucks Dorian Pillsbury Prize in Poetry, finds himself hitchhiking along a deserted Northern California backroad highway. Excerpt from Ode To Sunset A Year In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged A Year In The Life of American Genius, California, California Poetry, Diogenes, fiction, Kenneth Rexroth, Modern Poetry, New York City, Ode To Sunset, outlaw poets, Pat Nolan, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, William Carlos Williams | 1 Comment

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

This Is How Legends Begin

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to nature, Art; I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. —Walter Savage Landor Recollections, appreciations, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Basho, Blaise Cendrars, Buddhism, California, California Poetry, Chines Painting, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese Poetry, Clark Coolidge, Clifford Burke, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Kenneth Rexroth, Maureen Owen, Modern Poetry, New York City, outlaw poets, Philip Whalen, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poets, Richard Brautigan, Ron Padgett, Russian River, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, William Carlos Williams | 2 Comments

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 →

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Meditation In A Big Cabin

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

MEDITATION IN A BIG CABIN It has been fifty years since Ron Padgett’s Great Balls of Fire lit up the poetry sky. In 1969, Padgett’s publication by a mainstream publisher, Holt Rhinehart Winston, was a tremendous breakthrough for a non … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alex Katz, Blaise Cendrars, Bob Newhart, Coffee House Press, Daffy Duck, E.E. Cummings, George Schneeman, Guilliaume Apollinaire, Jim Dine, Joe Brainard, Little Lulu, Marcel Duchamp, Max Fleischer, Modern Poetry, New York City, outlaw poets, Plastic Man, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Raymond Roussel, Richard Wright, Ron Padgett, Sad Sack, Schools of Poetry, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, Trevor Winkfield, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

Into The Heart Of Wetness

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Sonoma County, California, the west of the county specifically, received three visitors in the last days of February and early into March of 2019. One was unwelcome and made a big impact, and the other two, although welcome and appreciated, … Continue reading →

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New To The Society’s Shelves

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Nuallain House, Publishers

New To The Society’s Shelves Over the past year The New Black Bart Poetry Society has acquired either as review/gift/comp copies, subscription, and or diligent used bookstore browsing a fair but not overwhelming number of books to add to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Bill Berkson, Bill Porter, Bob Arnold, Buddhism, California, California Poetry, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Clemens Starck, Coffee House Press, David Bromige, Doc Dachtler, Empty Bowl Press, Fell Swoop, Gary Snyder, George Schneeman, Hirato Renkichi, Jack Kerouac, Jerome Rothenberg, Joel Dailey, Kevin Power, Longhouse Press, Main St Rag, Modern Poetry, New York City, outlaw poets, Pat Nolan, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Poltroon Press, Red Pine, Robert Duncan, Sam Hamill, Schools of Poetry, Talisman Press, The Moron Channel, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, Tim Hunt, Tom Weigel, Ugly Duckling Presse | Leave a comment

Some Assembly Required

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Some Assembly Required Bill Berkson’s “Memoir In Pieces” When talking about Bill Berkson certain assumptions must be addressed. That he was a quintessential New Yorker who had escaped to California and created a niche for himself among artists and writers … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bill Berkson, California, California Poetry, Charles Olson, Diane di Prima, Edwin Denby, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo, Jane Freilicher, Jim Carroll, Joan Mitchell, Joanne Kyger, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Judy Garland, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie, Larry Fagin, Larry Rivers, Lauren Bacall, Lewis Warsh, Liza Minnelli, Mia Farrow, Modern Poetry, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, New York City, Philip Guston, Philip Whalen, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Robert Creeley, Roddy McDowell, Ron Padgett, Rudy Burckhardt, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Since When, Surrealists, Ted Berrigan, The New York School, W. H. Auden, Willem de Kooning, Yvonne Jacquette | 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