American poet, translator and environmentalist Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. After his parents had moved to Washington State and later to Oregon, Snyder discovered reading, poetry and the folklore of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. He published his first poems during his time at Reed College, Portland and graduated with a dual degree in anthropology and literature…
Coyote’s Journal was a literary magazine edited by American poet James Koller. Koller (1936-2014) was originally trained as a photographer and became poetry editor of the University of Oregon’s literary magazine in 1964. After the suspension of that magazine he started his own Coyote’s Journal together with Ed Van Aelstyn and Will Wroth later that year. Koller moved to northern California in 1965 and stayed…
Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…
Stroker was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York – and later from Nagano, Japan – by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller’s, lived many years as an ex-pat in France, Morocco, Japan and other countries. Apart from Henry Miller, who contributed to Stroker during the last two-and-a-half years of his life, leading authors such as…
August Stramm (1874-1915) was born in Münster and educated in Aachen, Germany. After he had graduated from grammar school, Stramm held various positions in the German Postdienst and regularly travelled between Germany and the USA after having been promoted to a position in the Seepostdienst in 1897. Stramm married journalist Else Krafft in 1902 and moved to Berlin three years later. In the German capital…