Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942, Ron Padgett started writing poetry at an early age and developed an interest in visual arts in high school. Together with fellow high…
Named after Ezra Pound’s 1938 Guide to Kulchur, Kulchur was a 1960s quarterly magazine from New York that focused on cultural criticism by leading avant-garde poets, writers and artists of the period. The first three issues by Kulchur were edited by Marc Schleifer in 1960, followed by single issues edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer, a number of issues by editorial boards with Frank O’Hara and LeRoi Jones a.o. before being continued under the single editorship of Lita Hornick from 1962 to 1965. Kulchur ran for twenty issues before Hornick turned the…
Named after Ezra Pound’s 1938 Guide to Kulchur, Kulchur was a 1960s quarterly magazine from New York that focused on cultural criticism by leading avant-garde poets, writers and artists of the period. The first three issues by Kulchur were edited by Marc Schleifer in 1960, followed by single issues edited by Gilbert Sorrentino and Joel Oppenheimer, a number of issues by editorial boards with Frank O’Hara and LeRoi Jones a.o. before being continued under the single editorship of Lita Hornick from 1962 to 1965. Kulchur ran for twenty issues before Hornick turned the…
Natural Jewboy – subtitled ‘an epic wonder tale composed of stories, chants & rhapsodies, or an evening with the author’ – is a collection of prose and verse by William Levy published by Ins & Outs Press, Amsterdam in 1981. William Levy (1939) developed into a spearhead of the European underground soon after he had left the US in 1966. As co-editor (with John Michell) of the controversial “Souvenir Programme for the Official…
American poet Jack Spicer was born in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942 and studied at the University of Redlands from 1943 and 1945. After having worked as a movie extra and private investigator, Spicer moved to Berkeley, where he attended the University of California and started writing and publishing poetry. Together with his friends Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser, Spicer set out to create a new kind of poetry….