Tag Archives: Steven Lavoie

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Report: Scenes From Life

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Group reading of Philip Whalen’s Scenes From Life At The Capital Monday, October 23, 2017 Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA They said they would, and they did. Two years ago Alastair Johnston of Poltroon Press had thought to combine the occasion … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alan Bernheimer, Alastair Johnston, Black Bart, Buddhism, Burton Watson, California, California Poetry, Clark Coolidge, David Brazil, Denise Newman, Don Allen, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Grey Fox Press, Jack Kerouac, Kyoto, Laura Woltag, Michael Rothenberg, Modern Poetry, Moe's Books, Norman Fischer, On Bear's Head, outlaw poets, Owen Hill, Pat Nolan, Paul Christensen, Philip Whalen, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Schools of Poetry, Steven Lavoie, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, Tinker Greene, William Carlos Williams | 1 Comment

Poetry In Exile

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Nuallain House, Publishers

Poetry in Exile Introduction to Exile In Paradise by Pat Nolan (Nualláin House, Publisher, 2017) Some fifty years ago a friend loaned or gifted me Kenneth Rexroth’s One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, and as is commonly acknowledged a loaned book … 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 →

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A Precursor to Haiku

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Nuallain House, Publishers

A Precursor to Haiku Excerpts from the introduction to Poetry For Sale, Haikai no Renga (Linked Verse) with poets Keith Kumasen Abbott, Sandy Berrigan, Gloria Frym, Steven Lavoie, Joen Moore, Pat Nolan, Maureen Owen, Michael Sowl, and John Veglia (Nualláin House, … Continue reading →

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Minimalist Poetry

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Nuallain House, Publishers

To: The Membership & Interested Parties From: The Parole Officer, NBBPS Subject: A Conceptual Roundtable Fortuitous accident, chance, a throw of the dice, a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, call it what you will, is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Poetry Society | Tagged Alexsandr Makarov-Krotov, Anselm Hollo, Aram Saroyan, Basho, Black Bart, California Poetry, Clark Coolidge, Darrell Gray, Dave Morice, Ezra Pound, G.P. Skratz, Ivan Akhmetyev, John M. Bennett, Joyce Holland, Lillian Van Den Broeck, Marcel Duchamp, Mikhail Faynerman, Modern Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Lectures, Poetry Lessons, Poetry Society, Poetry Talks, Poets, Robert Grenier, Robert Lax, Ron Padgett, Schools of Poetry, Steven Lavoie, Ted Berrigan, The New Black Bart Poetry Society, The New York School, William Carlos Williams | 1 Comment