Tag Archives: Ron Padgett

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

Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten by Pat Nolan In September of 2012, Parole, the blog of the newly reconstituted Black Bart Poetry Society whose motto is “For those who think poetry is still a crime,” started as irregular memos … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Andrei Codrescu, Andrew Schelling, Anselm Hollo, Beats, Bill Berkson, Black Bart, Bruce Holsapple, Carol Ciavonne, Chinese Poetry, Dada, Dan Demers, David Perry, Futurism, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jack Kerouac, Japanese poetry, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Julia Kristeva, Kandinsky, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Kenneth Rexroth, Lucille Friesen, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Young, Max Jacob, Modern Poetry, New York School, Parole, Philip Whalen, Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Reverdy, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Sara Safdie, Schools of Poetry, Steve Carey, Steven Lavoie, Sun Dong, Surrealism, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, Tim Hunt, Tom Clark, Tom Sharp, Vorticism, William Carlos Williams | 2 Comments

The Education of Pat Nolan

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Nuallain House, Publishers

The Education Of Pat Nolan An Anniversary Memorial for Keith Kumasen Abbott, 1944-2019 By Pat Nolan Paintings by Ivan Suvanjieff In pursuit of the writer’s life with absolutely no clue of what I was doing, I left the Midwest (c.1965) … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alice Notley, Allen Ginsberg, Andrei Codrescu, Blue Wind Press, Buddhism, California, California Poetry, Clifford Burke, Coffee House Press, Gary Snyder, Ivan Suvanjieff, Jack Kerouac, Joanne Kyger, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Kenneth Rexroth, Modern Poetry, outlaw poets, Pat Nolan, Philip Whalen, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Richard Brautigan, Ron Padgett, San Francisco, Schools of Poetry, Steve Carey, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, William Carlos Williams | Leave a 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 →

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

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

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

Rothenberg Poetry University

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Rothenberg Poetry University Heuristic Maps For The Mastery of Poetry Jerome Rothenberg is a genius. With the aid of his able collaborators, he has mapped out a heuristic path for the study of poetry and toward a unifying theory of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged A Book of the Book, Alice Notley, Andrei Codrescu, Anselm Hollo, Burton Watson, Charles Simic, Clark Coolidge, Diane Rothenberg, Donald Allen, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, George Quasha, Jack Foley, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Jonathan Chaves, Kenneth Rexroth, Marcel Duchamp, Maureen Owen, Modern Poetry, outlaw poets, Pierre Joris, Poems for the Millennium, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Ron Padgett, Ron Silliman, Schools of Poetry, Steven Clay, Surrealists, Symposium of the Whole, Technicians of the Sacred, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, Tom Clark | 2 Comments

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