Little Magazines
Title
Little Magazines
Description
A sampling of indie and little magazines from the Poetry Center's collections.
Type
Journals
Collection Items
Dodgems 1
The front cover of Dodgems no.1, featuring a black and white photograph of nuns in habits driving bumper cars.
Eileen Myles published two issues of Dodgems in the late 1970s. The cover of the first issue, which features nuns on bumper cars, sets…
Eileen Myles published two issues of Dodgems in the late 1970s. The cover of the first issue, which features nuns on bumper cars, sets…
Folder
The mid-century journal Folder, published by Daisy Aldan and Richard Miller, published textual and visual art in a wide variety of media. Among the journals of the period, Folder stands out for its commitment to showcasing striking visual art…
Spork
Spork was a Tucson-based poetry journal created by Richard Siken and Drew Burk. Issues were hand-bound, with each issue employing different binding styles and materials. Spork branched out to produce chapbooks, books, and eventually a series of…
Sinister Wisdom
Sinister Wisdom, a journal dedicated to lesbian art and culture, has been in production since 1976 and is still publishing today. The Poetry Center's collection includes two important early issues of the magazine, nos. 5 and 6, which were the gift of…
Telephone
Maureen Owens ran the journal Telephone throughout the 1970s using a mimeograph machine at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City. The magazine featured early work by Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan, among many others. A number of poets whose…
Tongue
Tongue was a literary publication of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. The journal featured work by University of Arizona students and faculty, including Jon Anderson and Steve Orlen. The May 1971 issue includes several very early…
Shush Da Bizaad
Shush Da Bizaad (Language of the Bears) was a monthly literary arts magazine produced by New Mexico's Wingate High School, which serves Indigenous (Diné) students. As seen here, the writing and art in this journal showcased students' traditional…
Mica
Mica, out of Santa Barbara, California, ran for seven issues in the early 1960s. Editors Raymond Federman and Helmut Bonheim published fiction and poetry by Charles Bukowski, Carol Bergé, and Robert Creeley, among others, documenting the 1960s poetry…
Big Table
The first issue of Big Table, shown here, was created in response to censorship: when the editors of the Chicago Review attempted to publish Beat writing by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, among others, the University of Chicago suppressed the…
Kauri
Poet Will Inman published Kauri from the 1960s to the 1980s, packing as many poems as physically possible onto each page. Many of the poems in Kauri appear in English-to-Spanish or Spanish-to-English translation.