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The Third Choice of the Little Magazine
Reading through Secret Location, it is clear there is something missing within its pages. A whole category of little mags that truly deserve a home at the Secret Location. Evelyn Thorne, editor of...
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Derringer Books Catalog 30
Catalog 30 has just been issued from Derringer Books. There is some really wonderful material on offer here for Mimeo Revolution fans. For example, the San Francisco Keeper’s Voice, inscribed by...
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This Jargon Stopper is a Show Stopper
I pretended that I was going to collect Jargon publications from 1951 to 1960 and then I ran up against the early Jargon titles. Not only are they beautiful and expensive, they are incredibly rare....
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William Wantling: Academic Poet
Quartet was the house band for Purdue University. Lawrence Welk to be sure. This particular issue features a puff piece review on an essay collection by William Jonanovich, which documents "the...
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Question for Johan Kugelburg
"We've got just one thing to say to you fucking hippies, and that is that rock and roll is here to stay!"...
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Kugelberg Answers in the Affirmative
The obsession with Sha Na Na continues. Johan agrees this is proto-punk.Listen to this 1972 version of At The Hop. It is all about speed and don't tell me you can't hear the Ramones.HereJB
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Leroi Jones on Wieners' Hotel Wentley Poems
The Hotel Wentley Poems by John Wieners (Auerhahn Press, $1.25) Wieners’ Hotel Wentley poems were good to see. His poems are known more extensively in mss than in print, even tho they...
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Reading as Wedding Announcement
Here is a poster announcing a poetry reading by Brother Antoninus at UC Davis on December 7, 1969. Seemingly not a big deal as Brother Antoninus read a bunch, but this would be the last reading ever...
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Boo Hooray Semina
On a recent trip to the Special Collection Library at Buffalo, I spent some time with Wallace Berman's legendary Semina. I do not want to get all luddite and pontificate about the splendors of the...
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Sinking Bear
HYPE! I put it in CAPS because hype is real and alive in the Mimeo Revolution. Is Fuck You really the shit once you actually fucking read it? Is Semina as good as it was not advertised? (THEY...
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Magazine as Seismograph
It is fitting that the first issue of San Francisco Earthquake was published in the fall of 1967 as it is a product of the hangover after the Summer of Love. That Summer was largely a media...
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Fles on the Wall
Compared to Jones/Baraka and Ginsberg, John Fles is something of a marginal figure. Yet in that 1959/1960 period (when this photo was taken), Fles could play the bongos with the Beat elite and do...
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The Mastermind of the Mimeo Revolution
It is tough to overestimate just how important a figure Jones/Baraka was in the early Mimeo Revolution network. He was the connection in New York City. This advertisement from Kulchur #3 is a great...
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Creeley on Contact
In the first issue of Black Mountain Review, Robert Creeley surveyed the Canadian poetry scene and in doing so, he opened by discussing Contact, Raymond Souster’s pivotal mimeo, which served as a...
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The Posting Has Been Minimal
Yeah, I know. It has been a while. I have been putting the finishing touches on Planned Obsolescence Press #4, which is ready to go to press. So let's ease back into the Mimeo Mimeo blog, with a...
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Grass Profit Review No. 1
Back in those days of yore when I actually posted shit, I did a little series on the mimeo from the streets of Berkeley in the days around the 1965 Poetry Conference. Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace...
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It Is Only Worth The Paper It Is Printed On
If you see a copy of Grass Profit Review on white paper, beware! Not surprisingly, this ephemeral handbills were bootlegged and photocopied. Generally they were printed on colored paper. There seem...
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John Ashbery on John Perreault's Camouflage
Here is another Lines Press publication from 1966. John Ashbery wrote the introduction. Not sure if this introduction is reprinted anywhere. If not, it is now.INTRODUCTIONThe first person singular...
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Weather Report: Which Way The Wind Blows - Grass Profit Review #3
In March of 1968, things were getting hot.JB
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