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"And I would think that we probably always will be crystal sets, at best." -- Jack Spicer

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Scheeman cover of last issue of Notley's magazine CHICAGO

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Amsterdam, 1978

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mapped locations in NYC from Ted Berrigan’s THE SONNETS

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Bernadette Mayer’s MEMORY is on display at the Poetry Foundation today through April 27:

Memory is a poetic audio-visual installation, shown now in its entirety for the first time since its original 1972 exhibition. During July 1971, Mayer took one roll of film each day, resulting in 1,116 photographs displayed in a grid. The photographs are accompanied by six hours of audio narration, created by Mayer as she remembers and circularly ruminates on the images, using them “as taking-off points for digression, filling in the spaces between.”

http://www.ndbooks.com/event/memory-bernadette-mayer-at-the-poetry-foundation/

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Ted, 1963-65 notebook

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"'Recent' doesn't really ever matter, does it..."

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Malanga / Denby on the Warhol cover of Berrigan’s C #4, September 1963

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Alex Katz

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Dream Gossip column in Scarlet #4, Spring 1991, edited by Notley and Oliver

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Nathaniel Mackey last week in Louisville, KY at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

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working on an essay, forthcoming in Chicago Review later this year, on Notley’s practice of visiting and writing in The Art Institute of Chicago, which will include a complete reprinting of her essay “Modern Americans in Their Place at Chicago Art Institute: An Article,” first published in Brilliant Corners issue #1, edited by Art Lange

top: Eleanor Jewett in the Chicago Tribune on the Art Institute’s purchase of de Kooning’s “Excavation,” April 13, 1952

middle: de Kooning’s “Excavation” at the Art Institute

bottom: Notley in Brilliant Corners, 1975

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from a section of Berrigan’s little-known cut-up novel LOOKING FOR CHRIS, never published as a whole book. This section is from the John Ashbery-edited magazine Art & Literature #11, Winter 1967.

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from On the Road Again, An Old Man: Basho’s Journey by Ted Berrigan, printed in a limited run of 20 copies in 1979

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Alice Notley: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Notley/Buffalo_4-10-87/Notley-Alice_02_Love-Song_Buffalo_1987.mp3

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“I Ines say, go to hell you vicious motherfuckers” ////////////////////////

Some thinking on Alice Notley’s NEGATIVITY’S KISS at Fanzine

http://thefanzine.com/in-the-garble-a-review-of-alice-notleys-negativitys-kiss/

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Greg Masters, editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter from 1980-1983, was kind enough to send these to me. Two collaborations: an Alternative Press postcard and the original publication of “In Your Fucking Utopias” in Salome issue 36/37, a magazine in Chicago.