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Vagabond Press Records (Ms. 83.1)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual or by name of publication or press.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1-2 Alexander, Floyce: poet, professor, U. of N.M
Contents Note: 2 letters and 1 card to John Bennett; About Civic Arts Commission Writer's Competition, Washington State.
 1978 Jan 05 - 1979 Mar 18
Box 1, Folder 3-4 Algren, Nelson: journalist, novelist.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About publication of an Algren article in Vagabond.
 1967-1971
Box 1, Folder 5-6 Allen, Blair H.: Critic
Contents Note: 10 letters to JB. About publication of an Algren article in Vagabond.
 1976 Nov 26 - 1979 Oct 21
Box 1, Folder 7-8 Andres, Stefan: novelist, short story writer (German)
Contents Note: 5 letters and cards to JB by wife of Andres; 3 letters to SA from JB; About publication of story in Vagabond. In German and in Englisch.
 1965 Dec 11 - 1966 Jun 15
Box 1, Folder 9 Arthur, Terry: poet, photographer for Newsweek.
Contents Note: About publication in early issue of Vagabond.
 1979 Jan 24
Box 1, Folder 10 Bacik, Paul J.: poet/prisoner.
Contents Note: About assistance to his daughter who had copies of Vagabond taken away from her on the grounds they were pornographic.
 1980 Nov 13
Box 1, Folder 11 Banana, Anna: poet, editor of Vile.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; About COSMEP meeting at Davis, 1975 about poem JB wrote about AB.
 1976 Mar 02
Box 1, Folder 12-13 Barth, Herbert: director of International Youth Festival, Bayreuth, Germany.
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 1 telegram; 1 card. About reading at the IYF and displaying Vagabond publications.
 1965 Dec 29 - 1967 Feb 10
Box 1, Folder 14-19 Beck, Art: poet (pseudo real name: Dennis Dybeck
Contents Note: 22 letters and 3 cards to JB; 3 letters AB from JB; 1 letter JB fr "Stuart." About poems in Vagabond and Beck's Vagabond Press book: The Discovery of Music.
 1973 - 1979
Box 1, Folder 20-23 Berge, Carol: novelist, poet, editor of Center.
Contents Note: 10 letters and 3 cards to JB. 5 letters form JB to CB. About poetry in general.
 1974 Oct - 1976 Mar
Box 1, Folder 24 Beining, Guy R.: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond, JB's resignation as chairperson of COSMEP.
Box 1, Folder 25 Bennett, John M.: poet (No relation to John Bennett, Vagabond Press.)
Contents Note: 6 letters to JB about poetry in general. Work to be published in Vagabond.
 1974 Apr 14 - 1975 Aug 27
Box 1, Folder 26-27 Boll, Heinrich: novelist (German).
Contents Note: 1 letter & 1 card to JB form Erich Kock, Böll's secretary. 1 letter from JB to Boll. About publication of Böll story in Vagabond.
 1965 Dec 22 - 1966 Jan 21
Box 1, Folder 28 Brandi, John: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About stories submitted to Vagabond.
 1973 Jul 10 - 1976 Jan 15
Box 1, Folder 29 Bridges, Lee: poet
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About book Vagabond Press printed; his plans to return to U.S. after years in Holland.
 1973 Jul 10 - 1976 Jan 15
Box 1, Folder 30-31 Brown, David: publisher, proprietor of Left Bank Books, Seattle.
Contents Note: 5 letters & 1 card to JB; 3 letters form JB to DB. About purchase of an offset press; readings at Left Bank, poets.
 1979 Sep - 1981 Jan
Box 1, Folder 32-33 Butler, Michael: poet (English)
Contents Note: About first two issues of Vagabond.
 1966 Sep 23-1966 Nov 09
Box 1, Folder 34-39 Bernstein, Jesse: poet.
Contents Note: 3 letters to Bernstein. About the poetry/literary scene; about new work both were working on at the time.
 1979 Jun-1980 Aug
Box 2, Folder 1-4 Blazek, Douglas: poet, editor of now defunct Ole & Open Skull Press.
Contents Note: 14 letters and 1 card to JB; 2 letters to DB. About poetry in general; Vagabond and Ole; Vagabond Anthology (including a letter from Blazek to Mangelsdorrf explaining his motivation for starting Open Skull and writing poetry, copy.)
 1966 Sep 26 - 1978 Oct 16
Box 2, Folder 5-20 Bukowski, Charles: poet, short story writer, novelist.
Contents Note: 49 letters to JB; 4 cards; 18 letters to CB. Correspondence with KCET TV about release on film footage for Bukowski film. About everything under the sun--poetry, women, drinking, magazines and books, sorrow, God, mysticism and children, the look in their eyes.
 1965 Nov - 1979 Jun
Box 2, Folder 25 Candias Rebecca: book distributor
Contents Note: 15 letters to JB; 2 letters to RC. About book distribution.
 1975 May 07
Box 2, Folder 26-28 Cavemen Press (Trevor Reeves, ED.) (New Zealand)
Contents Note: 8 letters to JB. 4 letters to TR. About poetry/publishing.
 1973 Oct -1974 Oct
Box 2, Folder 29 Chaet, Eric: poet
Contents Note: About writing in progress.
 1978 Oct 30
Box 2, Folder 30 Chambers, George: novelist, professor.
Contents Note: 6 letters to JB; some have no dates. About issues of Vagabond.
Box 2, Folder 31 Cerkowski, Nellie( then Nellie Cherry): poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB.
 1974 Sep 07
Box 2, Folder 32 Cirino, Leonard: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About poetry, work in progress, Vagabond.
 1980 Sep 26 - 1978 Oct 20
Box 3, Folder 1-2 Confluence (Harry Minetree, Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 2 letters to HM. About possibility of a fiction anthology.
 1968 May 18 - 1978 May 30
Box 3, Folder 3 Clark, Tom: journalist, poet, novelist.
Contents Note: 1 letter to TC. About Clark's book, The Great American Poetry Wars.
 1980 May 28
Box 3, Folder 4 Cooper, M.T.: poet, publisher
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond
 1976 Jan 27
Box 3, Folder 5-6 Congdon, Kirby: poet, editor of Interim Books.
Contents Note: 5 letters to JB; 4 letters to KC. About poetry in general, small press scene, Vagabond.
 1972 Feb - 1973 Jun
Box 3, Folder 7-8 Cooper, Christopher: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to CC. Cooper accusing Bennett of Commercialism, Bennett responding to the charge.
 1978 May 11
Box 3, Folder 9-10 Cooper, Wayne: fiction writer.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 2 letters to WC. Discussions about Vagabonds 14 & 15
 1972 Jul- 1973 Jan
Box 3, Folder 11-12 Corduroy (Richard Immersi, Ed.)
Contents Note: 5 letters and 1 card to JB; 1 letter to RI. About small press activity, poetry.
 1971
Box 3, Folder 13-15 Cotyledon (Michael Mayer, Ed.)
Contents Note: 7 letters and 1 card to JB; 1 letter to MM. About small press activity, poetry.
Box 3, Folder 16-17 The Critic (Joel Wells, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to JW. About publication of Nelson Algren's article in Vagabond.
 1967 Apr 03, 1967 Apr 05
Box 3, Folder 18 Cuelho, Art: poet, editor of Black Jack.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About small press activity, poetry.
 1972-1973
Box 3, Folder 19 Curtis, Walt: poet & publisher.
Contents Note: The Cockroach Poem controversy.
 1976-1977
Box 3, Folder 20 Davis, Olivia: fiction writer.
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB. About beginning of Vagabond; writing in general; Tuesday Night Writers Club that both JB and OD belonged to in 1965.
 1966 Jun - 1972 Mar
Box 3, Folder 21-23 Deutsch, Joel: poet, editor of now defunct Meatball.
Contents Note: 9 letters to JB; 2 letters to JD. About Six Poets, possible anthology on 60s, Deutsch's shift in position away form Realism in poetry.
 1972 May - 1974 Feb 10
Box 3, Folder 24-25 Dimensions (John Stevens Wade, Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters and 1 card to JB; 2 letters to JSW. About Dimensions and Vagabond.
Box 3, Folder 26 Dogsoldier (Bill Hudson, Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters and 1 card to JB. About Vagabond and Dogsoldier.
 1977 Mar 30 - 1977 Jun 21
Box 3, Folder 27 Domenique (Susan Smith): Cleveland poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; About JB's Anarchistic Murmurs; Smith's change in style.
Box 3, Folder 28-32 Elsässer, Lothar: German film maker.
Contents Note: 8 letters to JB; 13 letters to LE. About possible film articles for Vagabond, possible interviews with German literary figures.
 1966 Aug - 1967 Jul
Box 3, Folder 33 Egg (Bill Lineham, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB about manuscript JB submitted to Egg.
 1975 Apr 26
Box 3, Folder 34 Elder, Gary: poet and publisher.
Contents Note: 5 letters to JB. About Vagabond, and an anthology of western writing Elder was doing. Also comments about Bennett's writing.
 1973 Sep- 1976 Jan
Box 3, Folder 35-36 Empty Boat (Ben Goldberg, Ed.)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BG. About poetry, Empty Boat and Vagabond.
 1972 Oct - 1973 Aug
Box 3, Folder 37-38 Epos (Evelyn T., Ed)
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 letter to ET. About poems sent to Epos by JB.
 1971
Box 3, Folder 39-40 Evergreen Review (Fred Jordan)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 5 letters to ER. About selling posters.
 1966 Jun 07 - 1967 Apr 18
Box 3, Folder 41 Exley, Fred: novelist.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; About Exley's books
 1978 Feb 23
Box 4, Folder 1-5 The Fault (Terrance Ames, Ed.)
Contents Note: 17 letters and cards to JB; 4 letters to TA. About small press publishing, poetry and fiction, purchasing of printing equipment.
 1973 Nov - 1979 Oct
Box 4, Folder 6-7 Ferguson, Mary Maud: editor of Box 749
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to MMF
 1976 Jan - 1981 Mar 29
Box 4, Folder 8-10 Fericano, Paul: editor of West Conscious Review (defunct), poet.
Contents Note: 7 letters & cards to JB; 1 letter to PF. About San Francisco Book Fair, Stoogism Anthology, poetry and small mags.
 1976 Oct - 1978 Jan
Box 4, Folder 11-12 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: poet & publisher, City Lights.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB fr Ferlinghetti; 1 letter to JB fr Nancy Phillips, secretary to Ferlinghetti; 1 letter to LF; 1 letter to NP. About lining up some Bukowski readings in Bay Area.
 1972 Mar - 1972 Apr
Box 4, Folder 13 Floating Bear (Michael Sykes, Ed.)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology, Floating Island books Lew Welch.
 1978 Mar 27 - 1979 Nov 17
Box 4, Folder 14 Fogel, Al: poet
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB about JB's special section in Wormood Review, Fogel's poems.
 1975 Mar 06
Box 4, Folder 15 Fowler, Gene: poet.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; Long letters about predicament of poet in our society.
 1976 Jan 20 - 1976 Oct 08
Box 4, Folder 16 Fox, Bob: editor of carpenter Press
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB about small press activity.
 1974 Nov 26 - 1977 Apr 10
Box 4, Folder 17-35 Fox, Hugh: poet & fiction writer, editor of Ghost Dance.
Contents Note: Ghost Dance. 69 letters and cards to JB; (some are undated however). 25 letters to HF(some undated). Wide range of topics--small press, poetry/fiction, personal difficulties, etc.
 1972-1980
Box 5, Folder 1-7 Fulton, Len: editor of Dust and Small Press Review.
Contents Note: 23 letters to JB; 9 letters to LF. Long discussions about direction of small press activity and its relationship to society as a whole.
 1970-1980
Box 5, Folder 8-9 Gargoyle (Rick Peabody, Ed.)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB. About small press scene in general, CCLM, Jack Saunders, D.C. lit. politics.
 1979 Mar -1980 Dec
Box 5, Folder 10 Ginsberg, Allen: poet.
Contents Note: 1 card to JB. About the viability of small magazines and small presses.
 1979 Nov 04
Box 5, Folder 11-12 Golliards (Jerry Burns, Ed., defunct)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 2 letters to Burns. About first CCLM meeting in Bkly out of which grew COSMEP; about contemplating discontinuing Vagabond.
 1968-1969
Box 5, Folder 13-14 Grapes, Marcus J.: poet, actor
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB. About L.A. literary scene; about Vagabond Anthology; about S.F. Book Fair; about poetry in general.
 1976 Nov - 1979 Apr
Box 5, Folder 15 Grolier Bookstore (Louisa Solano, proprietor)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology.
 1978 Aug 22, 1978 Sep 07
Box 5, Folder 16-17 Gundmundsson, Kristmann: Icelandic poet & novelist.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to KG. About publishing his work in Vagabond.
 1966 Mar 03, 1966 Mar 08
Box 5, Folder 18-19 Gunnarsson, Gunnar: Icelandic poet & novelist
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 3 letters to GG. About publishing his work in Vagabond.
 1966 Mar - 1966 Aug
Box 5, Folder 20 Hack, Richard: poet, served as editor of Chicago Review.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About literature in general; Hack's move to S.F.; his starting new mag called Space Age Review.
 1977 Apr-1977 Sep
Box 5, Folder 21 Handke, Peter: German novelist.
Contents Note: 1 letter from JB to PH. About reading together in Bayreuth; about Handke contributing to German edition of Vagabond.
Box 5, Folder 22-23 Haslam, Gerald: novelist, story writer, professor.
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 2 letters to GH. Criticism and analysis of Haslam's work.
 1978 Feb - 1979 Jul
Box 5, Folder 24 Herman, Ira: poet.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; an IH poetry manuscript.
 1978 Sep 26-1979 Mar 03
Box 5, Folder 25-26 L' Herne(Dominique de Roux, Ed.)
Contents Note: 4 letters & 1 telegram to JB. About publishing French writers in Vagabond.
 1966 May - 1967 Jan
Box 5, Folder 27 Hester, ML.: poet, musician.
Contents Note: 5 letters to JB (no dates). About various Vagabond issues, poems by Hester.
Box 5, Folder 28-36 Hiatt, Ben: editor of Grande Ronde Review - defunct, poet.
Contents Note: 28 letters to JB; 15 letters to BH. About writing/poetry, small press scene; including a nine page letter from Hiatt describing the founding of GRR and its evolution.
 1968 Jul - 1976 Oct
Box 6, Folder 1 HIcks, Granville: critic.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About possible contribution to Vagabond.
 1965 Nov 21
Box 6, Folder 2-3 Hilsinger, Judy: Producer of "Comment" WWDC Radio, Washington, D.C.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to JH. About an appearence on "Comment".
 1968 Jan 08, 1968 Jan 12
Box 6, Folder 4 Hirshman, Jack: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Al Masarik's poetry about sending poems to Vagabond.
 1975 May
Box 6, Folder 5 Hogan, Ed: editor of Aspect.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; possible meeting; poems for Vagabond.
 1978 Jan -1978 Aug
Box 6, Folder 6-7 Horvath, Al: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 1 letter to AH. About JB's Anarchistic Murmurs; about Cleveland small press scene.
Box 6, Folder 8-9 Hounshell, William: poet
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 1 letter to WH about poems submitted to and accepted by Vagabond.
 1972 Oct - 1973 Sep
Box 6, Folder 10-19 Ingram Alyce: short story writer
Contents Note: 6 letteers to AI. About publishing AI's book, Blue Horses. About writing in general, Vagabond publications, etc.
 1975 Mar - 1979 Dec
Index of American Periodical Verse (Sander W. Zulauf, Editor)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About indexing Vagabond.
 1974 Aug 30, 1975 Aug 22
Box 6, Folder 21-22 Intersection ( Michael Molland, Coordinator)
Contents Note: 2l letters to JB; 1 letter to MM. About arranging readings at Intersection for Bukowski, other poets.
 1972 Jan 25
Box 6, Folder 23 Jacob, John: poet, critic, editor of Mojo Navigator (e) --defunct.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About controversy at 75 CCLM meeting; quality of Vagabond publications; discontinuation of Mojo Navigator
 1975 Jan - 1978 Jun
Box 6, Folder 30 James, Eileen: poet
Contents Note: 3 letters to EJ. About poetry in general, poems submitted to Vagabond, personal philosopy.
 1972-1977
Box 7, Folder 1-18 Juergensen, Hans: poet, professor.
Contents Note: 64 letters to JB; 3 letters to HJ. About the publication and distribution of HJ's book, Sermons.
 1965 Oct - 1969 Mar
Box 7, Folder 19-46 Johnson, Curt: editor of December, novelist, story writer, essayist
Contents Note: 138 letters, cards, etc. to JB
 1966-1979
Box 8, Folder 1-12 Johnson, Curt
Contents Note: 60 letters to CJ. Covers the evolution of both Vagabond and December during this period of time. Covers the writing careers of both Johnson and Bennett during this time. Touches on numerous facets of the small press world.
 1966-1979
Box 8, Folder 13 Katz, Bill: Librarian, University of NY at Albany
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; about reviews in Library Journal.
Box 8, Folder 14-28 King, Linda: editor of Purr, poet.
Contents Note: 48 letters to JB; some drawings; notes by Bukowski; 18 letters to LK. About Sweet & Dirty, LK's book published by Vagaond. About poetry, small press.
 1972 May -1981 Jan
Box 8, Folder 28 King, Geraldine: editor of Purr, poet, novelist
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About Purr and Vagabond books.
 1975
Box 8, Folder 29 Koertge, Ronald: poet, novelist, professor
Contents Note: 7 letters & cards to JB. About various Vagabond publications. (some undated)
 1973-1979
Box 8, Folder 30 Koch, Kenneth: poet, educator.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. Thanking JB for comments on Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
 1974 Mar 31
Box 9, Folder 1 Kooser, Ted: editor Wind Flower Press, poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Kooser's new book; about JB's Night of the Great Butcher.
 1977 Jan 05
Box 9, Folder 2-3 Kostelanetz, Richard: poet, critic.
Contents Note: 1 card to JB; 2 letters to RK. About a 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
 1974 Apr 26, 1974 Jun 02
Box 9, Folder 4-5 Kowit, Steve: poet.
Contents Note: 9 letters & cards to JB. About various Vagabond publications.
 1974-1979
Box 9, Folder 6-7 Krassner, Paul: editor Realist, essayist.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 3 letters to PK. About reprinting a Timothy Leary interview in Vagabond.
 1967 Jan - 1968 Feb
Box 9, Folder 8-23 Kryss, Tom: poet, editor of numerous Cleveland publications in 60s (Black Rabbit Press).
Contents Note: 69 letters and poems to JB with attached drawings, etc.; ( some items undated); 11 letters to TK. About writing, poetry in practice & in life, TK's Vagabond book, Music in the Winepress, Parrots in the Flames.
 1974 Feb -1980 Nov
Box 9, Folder 24-30 Kruchkow, Diane: editor Stony Hills, and of Zahir.
Contents Note: 28 letters and cards to JB; 3 letters to DK. About various small Press activities.
 1975 Jan - 1981 Feb
Box 9, Folder 31-32 Larson, Carl: editor Seven Poets Press - defunct, poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 2 letters to CL. About a 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
 1974 Apr 28, 1974 Apr 12
Box 9, Folder 33-36 Lifshin, Lyn: poet.
Contents Note: 13 letters and cards, with publicity leaflet, to JB; 1 letter to LL. About various small press publications, Lifshin books, Vagabond books.
 1972-1976
Box 10, Folder 1 Lipman, ED "Foots": poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About various matters concerning poetry.
 1972 Feb 25
Box 10, Folder 2 London, Jonathan: poet.
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB. About problems of a poet in prison.
 1974
Box 10, Folder 3-4 Lowell, Jim: proprietor of Asphodal Book Store, Cleveland, Ohio.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 lettter to JL. About various Vagabond books, about 60s Anthology JB was attempting to put together.
 1974 Apr 05 - 1978 Oct
Box 10, Folder 5 Macon, E.L.: poet.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; (no dates) 3 letters to JB. About Vagabond publications.
Box 10, Folder 6-7 Mag, (John Kay, Ed.)
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 letter to JK. About Vagabond & Mag.
 1972 Jan-1972 Oct
Box 10, Folder 8 Mailer, Norman: novelist.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB fr Anne M. Barry, secretary to NM. About possible contribution to Vagabond
 1965 Nov 19
Box 10, Folder 9 Malanga Gerard: poet, photographer.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond & special Transatlantic Rev for which Malanga did poetry editing.
 1976 Dec 23
Box 10, Folder 10-18 Mangelsdorff, Rich: critic, musician.
Contents Note: 31 letters to JB; 13 letters to RM. About a wide range of small press matters.
 1974 May - 1980 Jan
Box 10, Folder 19 Margins (Tom Montag, Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB.
 1975 Aug 27, 1976 May 01
Box 10, Folder 20-22 Matte, Robert: poet, editor of Yellow Brick Road.
Contents Note: 10 letters to JB; 2 letters to RM. About Vagabond and YBR.
 1974 Sep - 1975 Oct
Box 10, Folder 23-39 Menebroker, Ann: poet.
Contents Note: 77 letters and cards, etc. including photo, to JB. 1 letter to AM. About a wide range of small press matters.
 1973 Oct
Box 11, Folder 1 Micheline, Jack: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About manuscript for what was to become Skinny Dynamite, Second Coming Press.
 1973 Aug 11
Box 11, Folder 2 Mikolowski, Ken: editor The Alternative Press.
Contents Note: 2 letters & 1 card to JB. About Vagabond publications.
 1973 Nov 28 -1979 Aug 15
Box 11, Folder 3-4 Minarik, John P.: poet/prisoner
Contents Note: 6 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About poetry, possibility of readings, visit to prison where JM was incarcerated.
 1975 Feb 13 - 1979 Jul 11
Box 11, Folder 5-6 Montana Gothic (Peter Koch, Ed.)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to PK. About possible site for COSMEP Conference, poetry.
 1975 Jul 16
Box 11, Folder 7-8 Montgomery, George: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB(no dates); 2 poems in own hand (no dates); About various poets.
Box 11, Folder 9 Moore, Todd: poet, editor of Road/House.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About Road/House and Vagabond.
 1977
Box 11, Folder 10-11 Morehouse, Val: poet, reviewer for Booklist, librarian.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 2 letters to VM. About the viability of segregating small press publications in Booklist.
 1978 Jul 28 - 1979 Jul 30
Box 11, Folder 12-16 Moser, Norm: poet, editor of Illuminations.
Contents Note: 20 letters and cards to JB. 3 letters to NM. About a wide range of small press matters.
 1971 Mar -1979 Oct
Box 11, Folder 17-20 Mushroom (Peter Fiore, Ed.)
Contents Note: 13 letters and cards to JB. 2 letters to PF. About various small press matters and Fiore's manuscripts.
 1974 Jul 15 -1975 Sep 21
Box 11, Folder 21-22 Mycue, Ed: poet
Contents Note: 6 letters to JB; 1 inscribed poem; 2 letters to EM. About poetry in general.
 1972 Sep - 1977 Mar
Box 11, Folder 23-27 MCall, John D.: novelist, member of Washington, D.C. Tuesday Night Writers Club.
Contents Note: 19 letters to JB; 4 letters to JM. About founding of Vagabond, literature in general.
 1965 Dec - 1972 May
Box 11, Folder 28 McMahon, Michael: poet.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About poetry in general, Vagabond.
 1973 May-1978 Oct
Box 11, Folder 29 Naccarto, Chuck: poet, editor of Stump.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About CN book manuscript; JB poems.
 1976 Sep 01
Box 11, Folder 30 Nagler, Tom: professor, Carleton College.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. A vehement lambaste of Vagabond.
 1967 Mar 01
Box 11, Folder 31 Nausea (Leo Mailman, E.d.)
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About small press matters in general.
Box 11, Folder 32 Nettlebeck, F.A.: poet, editor
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About magazine submissions.
 1972 May 14, 1981 Feb 04
Box 11, Folder 33-34 New Hungarian Quarterly (Mikos Vajda, Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About work submitted to BP & Linda King quote.
 1966 Nov 26, 1967 Feb 13
Box 11, Folder 35 New York Quarterly (Bill Packard Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 card to JB. About work submitted to BP & Linda King quote (does not have starting date).
 1973
Box 12, Folder 1 Nicoletta, Peter: poet, editor of the Bellingham Review.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 2 dates, 2 no dates. About mutual mags, submissions.
 1977 Feb 18
Box 12, Folder 2-3 Nitty Gritty (Bill Wilkins, Ed.)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BW. About small press matters in general.
 1975 Aug 25 - 1976 Sep 10
Box 12, Folder 4-5 Nola Express (Robert Head/ Darlene Fife, Eds.)
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB (2 of these contain notes of/from JB as well); 3 letters to NE. About Nola Express writing, Vagabond.
 1973 Nov 10 -1974 Mar 22
Box 12, Folder 6 Norse, Harold: poet, editor of Bastard Angel.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About difficulties Norse was having keeping things together (not dated).
Box 12, Folder 7 NorthSun, Nila: poet, editor of Scree.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About poetry scene in L.A.
 1977 Dec 9
Box 12, Folder 8 Odam, Joyce: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond.
 1974 Jul 25
Box 12, Folder 9-10 Outta Sight (James Mechen, Ed.)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About doing guest editor work for Outta Sight.
 1975 Aug 11 - 1975 Nov 22
Box 12, Folder 11 Owens, Rochelle: poet
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About poems by RO, submission to Vagabond.
 1976 Oct 22
Box 12, Folder 2-3 Nitty Gritty (Bill Wilkins, Ed.)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 1 letter to BW. About small press matters in general.
 1975 Aug 25 -1976 Oct 09
Box 12, Folder 4-5 Nola Express (Robert Head/Darlene Fife, Eds.)
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB (2 of these contain notes of/from JB as well); 3 letters to NE. About Nola Express writing, Vagabond.
 1973 Nov 10 - 1974 Mar 22
Box 12, Folder 6 Norse, Harold: poet, editor of Bastard Angel.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About difficulties Norse was having keeping things together.
Box 12, Folder 7 Northsun, Nila: poet, editor fo Scree
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About poetry scene in L.A.
 1977 Dec 09
Box 16, Folder 8 Odam Joyce: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond.
 1974 Jul 25
Box 12, Folder 9-10 Outta Sight (James Mechem, Ed.)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JM. About doing guest editor work for Outta Sight.
 1975 Nov 08 - 1975 Nov 22
Box 11, Folder 1 Owens, Rochelle: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About poems by RO, submission to Vagabond.
 1976 Oct 22
Box 12, Folder 12-13 Paris Review (L.M. Bensky, E.d.)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 2 letters to PR. About exchanging publications, ads, using quotes from PR in Vagabond.
 1966 Jun 23 - 1976 Aug 30
Box 12, Folder 14 Pearl (Joan Smith, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB about Vagabond publications.
 1974 Jul 24
Box 12, Folder 15 Pendelton Chris: fiction writer
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About Vagabond
 1972 Jul 17, 1972 Aug 19
Box 12, Folder 16-18 Perry, Ivan: proprietor of Seattle bookstore, The Book Project.
Contents Note: 8 letters to JB; 1 letter to IP. About Vagabond publications, placing books in IP's store. About literature in general.
 1977 Feb 02 - 1978 Oct 06
Box 12, Folder 19-20 Peters, Robert: poet, critic, reviewer, professor.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 letter to RP. About poetry in general, analysis of Vagabond Anthology.
 1979 Jan 31
Box 12, Folder 21-22 Pleasants, Ben: poet, critic.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 1 letter to BP. About commercial vs. artistic aspects of poetry, small press world. Detailed examination. Numerous examples.
 1975 Apr 14- 1976 Jan 19
Box 12, Folder 23-24 Plymell, Charles: poet, editor Cherry Valley Editions, Plymell Pam: poet, editor Cherry Valley Editions.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 letter to Plymell. About integrity of small press publishing, directions, distributions and financing.
 1977-1979
Box 12, Folder 25-26 Poésie Vivante, (R. Wells-Marie, Ed.) (Swiss magazine)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 3 letters to PV (2 pencil drafts)
 1967 Jul - 1967 Aug
Box 12, Folder 27-28 Poetry Australia (Grace Perry, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to PA. About small press matters.
 1968 Apr 25 -1968 May 04
Box 12, Folder 29-36 Pollak, Felix: poet, librarian, University of Wisconsin
Contents Note: 7 letters to FP. About a wide range of small press matters.
 1966 May - 1975 Feb
Box 12, Folder 37-38 Porshe, Don: fiction writer, radio broadcaster.
Contents Note: 8 letters to JB. About small press mattersm Porsche's Work, Vagabond.
 1972 Nov - 1978 Apr
Box 12, Folder 39-42 Potts, Charles: editor of Litmus (defunct?), poet.
Contents Note: 15 letters & cards to JB; 6 letters to CP.
 1971 Oct - 1974 May
Box 13, Folder 1 Prentice, Patrick: poet, then editor of Potomac, George Washington Univ. magazine
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About Vagabond.
 1966-1967
Box 13, Folder 2-3 Pruitt, Bill: poet.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to BP. About poetry markets, problems being a prison poet.
 1972 Jul- 1972 Nov
Box 13, Folder 4-5 Pushcart Prize, (Bill Henderson, Ed.)
Contents Note: About nominations for PP.
 1975 Oct 25 - 1976 Oct 14
Box 13, Folder 6-10 Ouagliano, Tony: poet.
Contents Note: 17 letters, etc. to JB ( some are undated); 2 letters to TQ. About various small press matters.
 1972 Dec -1974 Jul
Box 13, Folder 11-12 Radar, Polish magazine.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB( TLS, text in German) 4 letters to Radar. About possible contributions to Vagabond by Polish writers.
 1966 Jun -1967 Jan
Box 13, Folder 13 Redall, Dave: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; About Vagabond.
Box 14, Folder 1 Reyes, Carlos: poet, publisher.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About small magazine trends.
 1973 Nov 19
Box 13, Folder 15-19 Richmond, Steve: poet.
Contents Note: 20 letters to JB with mostly no dates; 1 letter to SR. About various small press matters.
 1974 Apr 05
Box 13, Folder 20-21 Rinser, Louise: novelist, story writer (German)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB from LR's publisher; 1 card from LR. 4 letters to publisher & LR. About publishing work of LR in Vagabond. All text in German.
 1965 Dec - 1967 Apr 07
Box 13, Folder 22-24 RJS: Cleveland poet.
Contents Note: 12 letters to JB. About Clevleand scene, Vagabond.
 1973-1977
Box 13, Folder 25-26 Barnes, TIm: writer, interviewer.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 1 letter to TB. About arranging an interview with Tom Robbins for Vagabond 25.
 1976
Box 13, Folder 27-30 Robertson Kell: poet, editor of Desperado (defunct)
Contents Note: 12 letters & cards to JB; 2 letters to KR. About various small press matters.
 1971 Sep -1972 Jan
Box 13, Folder 31-34 Robertson, Kirk: poet, editor of Scree/Duck Down Press.
Contents Note: 13 letters to JB; 2 letters to KR. About various small press matters.
Box 14, Folder 1-7 Robson, Bill: editor of Big Boulevard & Holy Doors Anthology.
Contents Note: 31 letters to JB; 6 letters to BR. About various small press matters; about JB being featured in BB.
 1973 Mar - 1977 Apr
Box 14, Folder 8 Samisdat (Merrit Clifton & P.J Kemp, Eds)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About Vagabond Anthology, CCLM/NEA,Samisdat, Clifton's writing, etc.
 1978 Oct 05
Box 14, Folder 9-15 Scotellaro, Robert: poet, editor of Lion's Breath Press.
Contents Note: 28 letter & cards to JB; 6 letters to RS. About RS's Vagabond book, East Harlem Poems; about distribution in S.F.; about small press matters in general.
 1974 Aug -1977 Jan
Box 14, Folder 16 Second Aeon (Peter Finch, Ed.; Wales)
Contents Note: 1 letter to SA about the possibility of SA doing an AL Masarik book.
 1973 Oct 20
Box 14, Folder 17-18 Shihab, Naomi: poet.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About a JB article in Small Press Review.
 1978 Jul 24 -1979 Feb
Box 14, Folder 19 Shore Review (Kenn Kwint, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About a JB article in Small Press Review.
 1973 Oct 17
Box 14, Folder 20-21 Short Story International (Samuel Tankel, Ed.)
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 6 letters to ST. About possibility of publishing Heinrich Böll story from Vagabond in SSI.
 1966 Jun - 1968 Mar
Box 14, Folder 22 Shukofsky, Eileen: poet, dancer.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About not being with CCLM any longer.
 1974 Oct 30
Box 14, Folder 23 Skloot, Floyd: poet
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About Vagabond, FS's poems.
 1977 Sep 06, 1977 Nov 20
Box 14, Folder 24-27 Small Press Book Club, Robert R. Miles.
Contents Note: 14 letters to JB; 4 letters to RM. About distribution, Bag books to be handled by SPBC.
 1974 Apr -1977 Feb
Box 14, Folder 28 Smario, Tom: poet.
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB. About Vagabond, TS's poetry.
 1977 Jan 03 - 1979 Feb 01
Box 14, Folder 29-31 The Smith (Harry Smith & H.L. van Brunt, Eds.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 4 letters & 1 invoice to Smith; 2 letters from Smith to COSMEP (Richard Morris) and to COSMEP Politburo. About distribution; about achieving non-profit, tax exempt status for COSMEP.
 1968 Jan - 1971 Dec
Box 14, Folder 32-33 Snyder, Richard: poet, editor Kitsilano You.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 2 letters to RS. About poets, mags.
 1972 Jan 18 - 1972 Feb 24
Box 14, Folder 34 Smith, Jared: poet
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About Vagabond, JS's poems.
Box 14, Folder 35-36 The Smudge (Kurt Nimmo/D.Mumm, Eds.)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB about Vagabond/Smudge; poetry in general.
 1978 Sep 22 - 1979 Jul 13
Box 15, Folder 1 Spender, Stephen: poet (then poet in residence at Library of Congress)
Contents Note: 1 letter to SS. About granting an interview to Vagabond--which he did.
 1966 Apr 28
Box 15, Folder 2 The Spirit That Moves Us ( Morty Sklar, Ed.)
Contents Note: 6 letters to JB. About various small press matters; Editors, Choice Anthology; Vagabond.
 1977 Jul -1980 May
Box 15, Folder 3-4 Spit in the Ocean (Ken Kesey & Ken Babs, Eds.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 2 letters to Spit. About possible interview for Vagabond; about issues of Spit, Vagabond.
 1973 Nov 12
Box 15, Folder 5 Stagliano, Vito: poet.
Contents Note: 1 letter to VS; About rejection of poems.
 1966 Mar 31
Box 15, Folder 6-7 Stefanile, Felix: editor of Sparrow Magazine
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 2 letters to FS. About first issue of Vagabond; about exchanging ads.
 1966 Jun 23 - 1966 Aug 22
Box 15, Folder 8-20 Steward, Dave: poet, novelist.
Contents Note: 52 letters to JB (these include incomplete dates, however); 10 letters to DS. About a wide range of subjects: poetry, fiction, agents, small press, philosophy, etc.
 1975 Jul - 1980 May
Box 15, Folder 21-24 Sykes, Larry: poet/prisoner.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 1 envelope; 3 letters to LS; 2 envelopes; 2 prison censor sheets; 1 letter to JB from David Bourns; 1 letter to CCLM. About Syke's poetry; trying to get CCLM to intervene in matter of prison not letting my mail to Sykes go thru.
 1968 Apr 09 - 1968 Aug 29
Box 15, Folder 25 Tabloid Story (Michael Wilding, Ed.) (Australian mag) (defunct)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About folding of Tabloid Story.
 1975 Jul 01
Box 15, Folder 1 Talisman (Blythe Ayne, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About payment for JB book Talisman did: Potted Plants.
 1975 Jan 28
Box 15, Folder 27-31 Tarachow, Michael: editor of Pentagram Press, poet.
Contents Note: 24 letters to JB. About a wide range of small press matters.
 1976 Dec - 1979 Dec
Box 15, Folder 32-33 Taylor, Kent: poet.
Contents Note: 9 letters to JB. About Vagabond Anthology; about ending of Vagabond magazine about small press matters.
 1979 Feb -1980 Feb
Box 15, Folder 34-35 Tentacle (Juris Prudence Ed.)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; 1 letter to JP. About JB's poems.
 1971 May
Box 16, Folder 1-2 Thomas, John: poet
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to JT. About JT's poems to go into Vagabond book, Six Poets.
 1972 Oct 24 -1973 Nov 04
Box 16, Folder 3-5 Thorsteinsson, I.G.: novelist, storywriter (Icelandic).
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB; 5 letters to IGT; note and order form from Curt Johnson and December. About inclusion of IGT story in early Vagabond; about inclusion of same story in anthology of best small press fiction.
 1966 Mar - 1969 Jan
Box 16, Folder 6 Tidler, Charles: poet, story writer, publisher.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB; about purchasing of Vagabond books.
 1977 Oct 16 - 1978 Mar 06
Box 16, Folder 7-9 Transatlantic Review (Joe McCrindle, Ed.; B.S. Johnson, poetry ed.) (defunct).
Contents Note: 7 letters and cards to JB; 4 letters to TR. About poets, writers, exchanging magazines, ads.
 1965 Feb - 1965 Nov
Box 16, Folder 10-11 Turkey Press (Harry Reese , Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; 1 letter to HR. About TP and Vagabond.
 1978 Sep 02 - 1978 Sep 15
Box 16, Folder 12-13 Unfold (Don Jenkins Ed.) (defunct)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB; 3 letters to DJ. About Vagabond and Unfold; about JB's Unfold book--Seventh Side.
 1972 Aug - 1972 Dec
Box 16, Folder 14 Unmuzzled Ox (Michael Andre, Ed.)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About work JB sent to Unmuzzled Ox.
Box 16, Folder 15 Vargas, R.V.: poet, editor of Tequila.
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB. About RVV's poetry, about Vagabond.
 1978 Jul 10, 1978 Oct 23, 1979 Jan 23
Box 16, Folder 16 Vincent, Ray: poet, then clerk at City Lights Bookstore
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About quality of Vagabond in relation to other small press books carried in the City Lights.
 1976 Mar 02, 1976 May 20
Box 16, Folder 17-19 Wantling, Williams: poet
Contents Note: 6 letters to WW. About WW's poems, poetry in general, small press activity, projected books, first issue of Vagabond.
 1966 Feb - 1967 Feb
Box 16, Folder 20 Wantling, Ruthie: poet.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB. About WW's death, including him in Vagabond Anthology.
 1977 Nov 17
Box 16, Folder 22 Weaver, Gordon: poet, novelist.
Contents Note: 2 cards to JB. About sending material to Vagabond.
 1975 Nov 04, 1975 Nov 11
Box 16, Folder 23-25 Webb, Jon & Gypsy Lou: editors of Loujon Press (defunct)
Contents Note: 10 letters and cards, etc. to JB (from both Jon & Gypsy Lou). About Vagabond and Loujon books; about Jon's death and history of Loujon press.
Box 16, Folder 26 Webb, Charles: poet, editor of Madrona.
Contents Note: 1 Card to JB; no date. About CCLM Grants Committee on which JB sat.
Box 16, Folder 28 Westenhuber Bros.: printers who did early Vagabonds in Munich.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB (Text in German). About Vagabond, their happiness that the magazine continues to fluorish in USA.
 1968 Aug 09
Box 16, Folder 29 Weston, Ken: poet, writer.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB. About controversy JB had with Invisible City editors.
 1976 Jan 24
Box 16, Folder 30-31 Willie: poet, Cleveland scene in the 60s (Will Hageman).
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB; 1 letter to Willie. About small press scene in 60s.
 1979 Aug 10, 1980 Mar 27
Box 16, Folder 32-34 Willmore City (Alex Scandalios, Ed.)
Contents Note: 5 letters to AS; 6 letters to AS. About various small press matters; about interviewing Masarik, JB and Bukowski as 3 main proponents of "Easy Poetry".
 1977 Apr -1979 Jan
Box 17, Folder 1-3 Wilson, Bob: fiction writer, movie editor for December Mag.
Contents Note: 16 letters to JB. About various Vagabond books, Wilson's work.
 1973-1980
Box 17, Folder 4-12 Winans, A.D: poet, editor of Second Coming.
Contents Note: 37 letters to ADW. About JB resigning as Chair of COSMEP, about CCLM about various small press matters.
 1971 Nov 24 - 1974 Jan 30
Box 17, Folder 13 Woodward, Jeff: poet, publisher.
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB about issues of Vagabond.
 1972 May 05
Box 17, Folder 14-19 Wormwood Review (Marvin Malone, Ed.)
Contents Note: 21 letters, etc. to JB; (some undated) manuscript of Malone's piece in Vagabond: Magazine Scene in the 60s. 5 letters to MM. About JB's poetry, about Vagabond and WR, dispute over Vagabond Anthology.
 1965 Nov - 1979 Dec
Box 17, Folder 20 Young, Al: novelist, professor/Stanford.
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB; St. Patrick's Day, 76 (TLS) about Vagabond.
 1976
Box 17, Folder 21-24 Yudkin,Vivian: novelist, reporter for Washington Post then.
Contents Note: 13 letters and notes to VY. About first Vagabond issue, subsequent issues; interview 1/JB for Washington Post, etc.
 1966 May -1968
Box 17, Folder 25 Zawadiwsky, Christine: poet
Contents Note: 1 card to JB. About poems sent to Vagabond.
 1978 Oct 05
Box 18, Folder 1-5 Vagabond 10
Contents Note: Cover art and 4 interior drawings by Glenn Miller.
Box 18, Folder 6-9 Vagabond 12
Contents Note: Two cover photos by Richard Olen; 1 poster layout w/ Olen photo; cover art by Cindy Bennett; interior drawings by G.Miller.
Box 18, Folder 10 Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Two title page drawings by Cindy Bennett
Box 18, Folder 11 One title page drawing by Margaret Haggerty
Box 18, Folder 12x-14x Vagabond 18
Contents Note: Cover art by M.Haggerty; 3 intetrior illustrations by M. Haggerty; some calligraphy and art work.
Box 18, Folder 15x-17 Vagabond 19
Contents Note: Original cover photography by George Stillman; 2 illustrations by M. Haggerty; calligraphy
Box 18, Folder 18-20 Vagabond 20
Contents Note: Cover art by Haggerty; multiple versions of 2 illustrations by Haggerty (includes Xerox) photographs for cover design by Dan Rice; calligraphy by Cindy Bennett.
Box 18, Folder 21 Vagabond 21
Contents Note: Cover art by C. Bennett

Series 2. Archives Material

Series 2. Subseries A. Original Art Work from Various Vagabond Publications

Container Description Date
Box 18, Folder 22-25 Vagabond 22
Contents Note: Cover art by C. Bennett; illustrations by Michael Swofford; 1 illustration by Katie Bache; other art by C. Bennett.
Box 18, Folder 26-30 Vagabond 23/24
Contents Note: 19 woodcut prints by R. Denner, some of which were used in issue
Box 18, Folder 31 Vagabond 28
Contents Note: 3 illustrations by Jimmy Jet
Box 18, Folder 32-33 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Cover photography and layout for cover by C. Bennett; film strips and negatives for possible cover.
Box 18, Folder 34-37 Invitation to a Dying
Contents Note: Cover and layout/cover film by C.Bennett; 3 illustrations by C. Bennett; cover photography by Jill Masarik for possible cover when title of book was going to be Blues for son of Cochise.
Box 18, Folder 38-39 Sweet & Dirty
Contents Note: Cover layout and art by C. Bennett.
Box 18, Folder 40-42 Mr. Clean #1
Contents Note: Ten rough draft drawings by G.Miller for cover; 2 illustrations by Miller.

Series 2. Subseries B. Material for Vagabond Chapbook Series

Container Description Date
Box 19, Folder 1-3 #1, Anarchistic Murmurs from a Hight Mountain Valley, J. Bennett
Contents Note: layout
Box 19, Folder 4-7 #2, Done with Mirrors, G. Penfold
Contents Note: Notes for contents; cover layout; original manuscript. 34 pp.;rejects, 1299.
Box 19, Folder 8 #3. Starkissing, Robert Matte
Contents Note: Cover art
Box 19, Folder 9-19 #4, Blue Horses, A. Ingram
Contents Note: Some correspondence; manuscript notes; 4 original mass; copy proofs; envelope; sketch; layout, 22pp.; clipping.
Box 19, Folder 20-28 #5, Driving Like the Sun, K.Taylor
Contents Note: Correspondence; manuscript notes; TMs poems for publication, 20 pp; proofs, 7 pp.; cover layout, 3pp.; layout, 16 pp.
Box 19, Folder 29-33 #6, Music in the Windpress, Parrots in the Flames, T.L.Kryss
Contents Note: correspondence; planning notes; TMs, 14 pp.; drawings by Kryss; layout,21 pp.
Box 20, Folder 1-2 #7, Happy Deathday, H. Fox:
Contents Note: Biographical sketch; TMs, 11 pp
Box 20, Folder 3-4 #8, East Harlem Poems, R. Scotellaro
Contents Note: Biographical sketch; TMs, 27 pp.
Box 20, Folder 5-7 The Discovery of Music, A. Beck
Contents Note: Planning notes; TMs, 23 pp.; 19 poems not used in book, 23 pp
Box 20, Folder 8-9 #7, #8, #9
Contents Note: Mixed typeset copy, not laid out

Series 2. Subseries C. Material for Vagabond Books

Container Description Date
Box 20, Folder 10-11 The Worms Are Singing, J. Bumpus
Contents Note: Orig. manuscript, 49 pp.; layout for 2nd edition, 18 pp.
Box 20, Folder 12-13 Invitation to a Dying, A. Masarik
Contents Note: Introductory pages, including commentary by Orem (2 copies of and biographical sketch, 26 pp.; original manuscript, 48 pp
Box 20, Folder 14-15 Lace and a Bobbitt, C. Johnson
Contents Note: Orig.manuscript, 65 pp.
Box 21, Folder 1-3 Post Card form Europe, A. Masarik
Contents Note: Original manuscript, 23 pp.; layout, 17 pp.;
Box 21, Folder 4-5 Six poets, Bukowski et. al. (1st Ed.)
Contents Note: Original manuscript, 43 pp.; copies of 6 Buk.drawings.
Box 21, Folder 4-5 Six poets
Contents Note: Correspondence, etc.
Box 21, Folder 7-8 Six poets
Contents Note: Layout, 63 pp.
Box 21, Folder 9 Six poets
Contents Note: layout-related notes
Box 21, Folder 10 Six poets
Contents Note: More layout-related materials, 12 pp
Box 21, Folder 11 Six poets
Contents Note: Miscellaneous notes, etc., 5 pp
Box 21, Folder 12-17 Six poets
Contents Note: Original TMss, together with corrections, etc., 59 pp
Box 21, Folder 12 Six poets
Contents Note: Sob Sister; The Girl; Portrait of a Man Returning to His Life; He is looking for Something ...; Trivia; if an Egg Falls ...; On Stage; Telling the Story (Menebroker, Ann).
Box 21, Folder 13 Six poets
Contents Note: I'd be Afraid That I'd Drop a Baby, Climbing; Peregrine; Men watch Football Because They are Lonely for Other Men; At the Shopping Center there are Mechanical Animals; Square; Napa, Sonoma, Mendacino; Damn You, Horace Greeley; Saturday Night (Koertge, Ronald).
Box 21, Folder 14 Six poets
Contents Note: Glass; Writing Poems; He Dreams; Sun Poem; The Crossing; This Other Her Running, Dissolves; The Lanae, Hotel Kaiamona; But the Seeds (Lifshin, Lyn).
Box 21, Folder 15 Six poets
Contents Note: Brush Firs; Sand Dollars; Starfish; Old Woman on Pier; Eight Arms with Suckers; I Would like to Tell you; Dirge (Masarik, Al).
Box 21, Folder 16 Six poets
Contents Note: White Enamel Bathtub; Meeting for the First Time; They Accuse me of Riding; I'm An Indian; We were Twins in the Womb (Penfold Gerda)
Box 21, Folder 17 Six poets
Contents Note: Pine Knob Mondo; The Squirrels; The Last Frontier; Eight Unwritten Stories; Tarquin; For He Surely Waits; Some of Them End as Suicides (Thomas, John).
Box 21, Folder 18-19 Six poets
Contents Note: Cover art blues from printer
Box 22, Folder 1 Red Mountain, Agatha Christie & Love...
Box 22, Folder 1 A. Masarik
Contents Note: layout notes
Box 22, Folder 2-6 A. Masarik
Contents Note: layout, 42 pp
Box 22, Folder 7 A. Masarik
Contents Note: More Layout
Box 23, Folder 1-16 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Original Ms, 238 pp.; includes introductory pages
Box 23, Folder 2 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: The Bronze Maidens from Bellevue (Thorsteinsson, I.G.); THe Kid in the Iron Hat; The Exam (Hughes, Dorothy); Hard Times; Didacticism as a King of Prism (Turner, W.Price); Unfinished Painting (Rebert, M. Charles).
Box 23, Folder 3 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: A Child is Born (Bunch, Grant J.); How Fear Has Progressed (Arthur, Terry); Sometime They'll Give a War and Nobody will Come; One Winter Day in the U.S.A in the Endless Year of Vietman (Bennett, Richard L.); One Dark Delinquent Night (Yudkin, Vivian); Visit to Venice; And All the Snow Melted...(Bukowski, Charles); Homage to Mickey; Yolanda (Micheline, Jack); Five Poems (Richmond, Steve)
Box 23, Folder 4 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Larry Moon; Vietnam (Robertson, Kirk); Feeding Time (Grapes, Marcus J.); Sob Sister (Menebroker, Ann); Story (Johnson, Curt); from: Sestina to San Quentin; For a Nordic Child (Wantling, William); Epitaph for a Quiet Country Morning (Willie).
Box 23, Folder 5 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Song; Grease (Robertson,Kell); Grandma #3; Love Story (NorthSun, Nila); Replacement (Fox, Hugh); Gunny (Bumpus, Jerry); Five Poems (Taylor, Kent); Six Poems (Kryss, T.L.).
Box 23, Folder 6 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Like Water in My Hands (Salazar, Leo); Slaughter by Daylight; Straightening the warp (Blazek, Douglas); Third Quarter (Levy, D.A); Something to Say (Nicoletta, Peter); The Garden of the Mind (Moser, Norm); For Him the Belle Trulls (Johnson, Curt).
Box 23, Folder 7 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: A Swell Idea (Kowit, Steve); Just Like Charles Bukowski (Herman, Ira); Don Quixnote come Home for Dinner (Smario, Tom); The Musicians (Garcia, Louis); On the Bus; In the Park (Reddall, Dave); Excerpts from the Journal of Jirac Disslerov (Chambers, George).
Box 23, Folder 8 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp. includes:
Contents Note: Star Kissing; Some Small Birds Alight in My Hair (Matte, Robert); The Dream of Ancestors; You Can't Teach Your Grandmother to Suck Eggs (James, David L.); Three Poems (Bennett, John M.).
Box 23, Folder 9 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp.
Contents Note: Pilgrims (Steward, D.E.).
Box 23, Folder 10 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp.
Contents Note: Includes: King of New York (Gustafson, Jim); Mongoose (Spinelli, Jerry); At the Laundromat in Alhambra; The Day Alvero Pineda Was Killed (Koertge, Ronald); The Commune; The Humanist (Esmonde, Joe); Chrome Fever; Covered With Fur (Macon, E.L); Maroon (Dybek, Stuart); The Idiots (Cook, Paul H.); Michael/Alternatives (Mikolowski, Ken); What's Money Good for Anyway But to Spend? (Smith, Joan); Clarification (Poling, William); Pictures from an Institution-III (Hester, Jr., M.L.).
Box 23, Folder 11 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp. includes:
Contents Note: Eight Poems (Lifshin, Lyn); The Return (Fiore, Peter); It Keeps Getting Larger; Landscape with Man from Germany Passing Through (Jared, Paul); Night Syndrome (Axelrod, David); I Held My Hat... (Haggerty, Margaret Thomas); Love's Labors Found (McEnteer, James); Dreaming of A Pair of Shoes (Miller Wayne; Half Moon Bay Quadrangle (Powell, Pamela Leslie).
Box 23, Folder 12 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp.
Contents Note: includes: Pieces (Petrakos,Chris); After Seven A.M. Mass (James, Eileen).
Box 23, Folder 13 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp. includes:
Contents Note: Six Poems (Penfold, Gerda); Four Poems (Beck,Art); Caruso Sweating & Big Nick in His Underwear; Coney Island, Horseshit Beach, The Atlantic Ocean (Scotellaro, Robert).
Box 23, Folder 14 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp. includes:
Contents Note: Four Poems (King Linda); Monsters in the Mission (Orem, James).
Box 23, Folder 15 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp. includes:
Contents Note: Eleven Poems (Masarik, Al); For Joe Lucas (Vane, Paul) (while this was included by Bennett in the anthology material, it does not seem to appear in the printed anthology itself.)
Box 23, Folder 16 Vagabond Anthology- original manuscript, 238 pp.
Contents Note: Includes: Contributor's notes, etc.
Box 24, Folder 1-17 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Layout, 185 pp
Box 25, Folder 1-9 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Revisions in layout, etc.
Box 25, Folder 10-17 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Corrections, etc. (many small fragments in envelopes.)
Box 25, Folder 18-19 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Photographs and photographic layout material
Box 26, Folder 1 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Proofs of pages with photographs.
Box 26, Folder 2 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Cover and spine material.
Box 26, Folder 3 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Proofs (partial set)
Box 26, Folder 4 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Proofs (complete set)
Box 26, Folder 5 Vagabond Anthology
Contents Note: Printer's blues.
Box 46, Folder unknown container Vagabond Anthology (Museum Objects)
Contents Note: Hardback cover for anthology. Type for spine.
Box 26, Folder unknown container Sweet and Dirty, Linda King
Contents Note: Biographical sketch with TMs, 25 pp.

Series 2. Subseries D. Material for Vagabond Issues
Vagabond Issues #10--#30; Mr. Clean Magazine #1 & #2: Much of the following material contains editorial revisions, comments, etc.

Container Description Date
Box 27, Folder 1 Vagabond 10
Contents Note: Original manuscript, partially handwritten; includes: Fat upon the Land (Bukowski, Charles); Third Quarter (Levy, D.A); All Power to the People (Bennett, John); Swampcat in Babylon (Orem, James); Northbeach Happenings (Winans, A.D.); The Changes: A Poem Cycle (Fox, Hugh); Waiting at the Bus Top (Odam, Joyce); Solipsist's Land of Fuck (fantasy) (Lorenzo, Brother); Rat Hunt (McCall, John); Goong Back, etc. (Lifshin, Lyn); Acts from the Interior Corpse; Blood Chart(Blazek, Douglas).
Box 27, Folder 2 Vagabond 10
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors: Bennett, Winans, Blazek, Odam, Lorenzo, Lifshin
Box 27, Folder 3 Vagabond 10
Contents Note: Other correspondence: DeBuda, Francis
Box 27, Folder 4x Vagabond 11
Contents Note: Film for cover
Box 27, Folder 5 Vagabond 11
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Bennett, Debuda, Odam, Bumpus, Menebroker.
Box 27, Folder 6 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Miscellaneous planning notes for issues 10-13.
Box 27, Folder 7 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Layout preliminaries
Box 27, Folder 8 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Original manuscript material for issues 12 and 13, 56 pp.; includes: La-La (Bennett,John); For the Third Odiferous Time, and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); The Words to that Song Escape Me and I Wouldn't Sing it Anyway (Robertson, Kell); Dug-In and other poems (Moser, Norman C.); No God Damn Good (King, Linda); Work-Fuck Problems, and other poems (Bukowski, Charles); You see Them in the Alleys, and other poems (Masarik, Al); I know (Hiatt, Ben L.); Saturday Morning at the Super (Winans, A.D.); Amateur Night at University Hall (Coleman, Horace); In the Department Store, and other poems (Koertge, Ronald); The Grudging Seed I Bring, etc. (Odam, Joyce); I Shall Soon know, etc. (Synder, Richard); At Fort Gordon, Georgia (Bedell,Tom); W.C. Fields and Christ (Menebroker, Ann); Papa's Existential Etiquette (Quagliano, Tony); filler quotation.
Box 27, Folder 9 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: A Vagabond Creatures Production (author?), 19 pp.
Box 27, Folder 10 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Copy layout, 16 pp.
Box 27, Folder 11 Vagabond 12; Vagabond 13
Contents Note: Cover for Vagabond 13 (3 copies).
Box 27, Folder 12 Vagabond 14-Original manuscript material for issue 14, includes:
Contents Note: The Universe and Conceptual Art (an editorial); The Human Cannonball(Orem, James).
Box 27, Folder 13 Vagabond 14-Original manuscript material for issue 14, includes:
Contents Note: Dear Woman; The Beast, and other poems (Masarik, Al); Receptacle (Menebroker,Ann); Drowning (Salisbury,Cynthia); What do you think you're doing (Lifshin, Lyn); Fear (Lifshin, Lyn);A Memory (James, Eileen N.); There were three hundred and twenty seven moons (Miller Wayne);Phyllis (Agostino, Joan); Oregon (Cuelho, Art); Antropology (Nettlebeck,F.A.); manuscript Oakly (Head, Robert); Two boys (Masarik, Al); a delicate medallion (Miller, Wayne); Trajectories (Fox, Hugh); The gypsy's dancing bear (Roundtree, Marjorie); Downtown Albany, the Darkblue Wind streets (Lifshin, Lyn); An Exercise of Rock (Blazek, Douglas); Lyn told me (Kwintm Kenn); It has Rained to the Brim of Danger (Odam, Joyce)
Box 27, Folder 14 Vagabond 14-Original manuscript material for issue 14
Contents Note: Includes: The prize of our culture (Fariello, Griffin), 15 pp.
Box 27, Folder 15 Vagabond 14-Original manuscript material for issue 14
Contents Note: includes: Errata and note
Box 27, Folder 16-17 Vagabond 14-Original manuscript material for issue 14
Contents Note: Includes: Proofs, 25 pp.
Box 28, Folder 1 Vagabond 15- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Vietnam Saga (Corrigan, Michael T.)
Box 28, Folder 2 Vagabond 15- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Martinson's Covenant (Pendleton, Christopher)
Box 28, Folder 3 Vagabond 15- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: A Visual Reconaissance (Cooper, Wayne L.)
Box 28, Folder 4 Vagabond 15- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Interview of Andrew Sackmar (author)
Box 28, Folder 5 Vagabond 15- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Make the Motor Run Smoothly (Bushnoff, Fedor); The War was over (Miller, Wayne); 99 Degrees (Bukowski, Charles); The Oldest Hiippie in the World (Bukowski, Charles); Ancient Gringo Savvy (Quagliano, Tony); Canada is an open door (Bennett, Rick); Wild Dogs(Gustafson, Jim); The Mysterioso South (Synder, Richard); There is a Tiger Sleeping (King, Linda).
Box 28, Folder 6 Vagabond 16- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Correspondence
Box 28, Folder 7 Vagabond 16- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Financial records, 5 pp
Box 28, Folder 8 Vagabond 16- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Biographical sketches, 9 pp.
Box 28, Folder 9 Vagabond 16- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Miscellaneous planning notes
Box 27, Folder unknown container Vagabond 16- Original manuscript material
Contents Note: Manuscript material for issue 16; includes: Farmers' Market, New Hampshire, 1880 (McMahon Michael); Once upon a Time (Tyler, Robert); Here's to Denver (Chaet, Eric); Rio and Freighters (Caplin, Loren Paul); Toys and other poems (Hounshell, William); If only ... (Shroyer, David); Poetry in the Politics of (Hoffman, Avron); Rivet (Poling, William); Different Colored Bodies (Kay, John); Glad Day, (Lifshin, Lyn); Portrait; Night Trippers (Colby, Joan); You say you shut the rapids (Yagamuchi, Joanne); The Ways of Change (James, Eileen M.); Breaking Down (James, Eileen M.) the writers; etc. (King, Linda); The Common Preoccupation; etc (Beck Art); The Failure of the Padded Bra (Dewey, A.A); Monkey Bars (Meyer, Vicky).
Box 28, Folder 11 Vagabond 17-Manuscript material
Contents Note: Alone in Your House (Axelrod, David); Poem from a letter to Bob Blossom (Micheline, Jack); Written in a Deserted Station at 3 a.m.; etc. (James, Eileen); When it's like This, It's Like This ... (Lifshin, Lyn); Whistling in the Dark; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Fetlocks (Koertge, Ronald); the bike rider (King, Linda); The Morning (Strom, Mike); The City's Civic Sewage System (Berg, Eric Ivan); Watermelon; and other poems (Stevens, Craig); High on Love (James, Eileen); Wrinkly Lady Dancer (Ostriker, Alicia); 66 and other poems (Powell, Leslie); Aunt Mary Who Always Understood (James, Eileen); Describing my Date to my Roommate (White, Gail); Ways to Read a Poem (Wier, Dara); #60 (Locklin, Gerald); Last Things (Fox, Hugh); Idolatry (Rapant, Larry).
Box 28, Folder 12-14 Vagabond 17-Correspondence with contributors, etc.:
Contents Note: Bennett; Salazar, Leo; Fanning, Pat; Ostriker, Alicia; Rapant; Berg; Stevens; Wier; Powell.
Box 28, Folder 15 Vagabond 17
Contents Note: Publisher's advertisement
Box 28, Folder 16 Vagabond 18- Manuscript material for issue 18
Contents Note: Includes: One of our Poets is Missing (Goldberg, Ben); The Leaves are all he knows how to touch; etc. (Lifshin, Lyn); Poems for Joyce; etc. (London, Jonathan); Sharing Love; etc. (Caplin, Loren P.); Waiting Poem (McKenzie, K. Michael); Dawn Breaks for Mr. Dealer Man (Orem, James); The Sailor; etc. (Masarik, Al); Gloria's Mouth (Scotellaro, Robert); Eva; etc. (Beck, Art); Miles Put the Blackhawk Down (Elder, Gary); what if Jack's life ended like this?; etc. (Kesler, Charles); Gabriel (White, William M.); Freedom (Hester, M.L.); A Long Rambling Poem to Annie's Ghost (Menebroker, Ann); appearing powerful (King, Linda).
Box 28, Folder 17 Vagabond 18
Contents Note: Calligraphy, 2 pp.
Box 28, Folder 18x Vagabond 18
Contents Note: Film for cover
Box 28, Folder 19 Vagabond 18
Contents Note: TMs, A Preliminary Attempt at a Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling, by Marvin Malone, 7 pp.
Box 28, Folder 20 Vagabond 18
Contents Note: Exhibit prospectus
Box 29, Folder 1 Vagabond 19- Manuscript material for issue 19
Contents Note: Fat Bob (Guerra, Art); Bitch; etc. (McCluskey, Sally); What Do you Have in You Window?; etc. (Powers, Shirley); Four Nites Running (London, Jonathan); waiting for a train (Masarik, Al); Violets are Black (Waluconis, Carl); Vortex (Wagner, Linda); What "There" is "Left" to Understand (Bennett, John); A Survey of the Little Mag Scene of the Sixties (Malone, Marvin); Free Fire (Bennett, John M.); Underground, 1974: The Optimistic Overview (Hugh, Fox).
Box 29, Folder 2 Vagabond 19
Contents Note: Addendum to Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling ... (Malone, Marvin).
Box 29, Folder 3 Vagabond 19
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Matte, Robert; Powers, Shirley; Petrakos, Chris; Johnson, Curt; Congdon, Kirby; Wagner, Linda; McCluskey, Sally; Bennett, John M.
Box 29, Folder 4 Vagabond 20 - Manuscript material for issue 20
Contents Note: Dead gull (Masarik, Al); What Bad Dreams We Have, My Dear (Menebroker, Ann); white knights, etc. (NorthSun, Nila); Dream Machines (Fiore, Peter); Gold Dust (Kowit, Steve); Stale Eggs (Ingram, Alyce); Odd Man In and Out; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Scourign Your Dreams; and other poems (London, Jonathan); Bridge aAcross (Penfold, Gerda); Only Painting (Cramer, Mark); Crossing the River (Kowit, Steve); every man must fear; and other poems (Russel, Norman H.)
Box 29, Folder 5 Vagabond 20 - Manuscript material for issue 20
Contents Note: What There is Left to Understand (Potts,Charles); Mister(Darky, Brad); Clean Hands (Terrill, Mark); Tommy and Clyde (Lerner, David); Spelling words (Bennett, John M.) Contributor's Notes; Jack (Lerner, David); Buried Basement (Bennett, John M.); She came out of the Trees (Masarik, Al); Snake Dancer (Case, Sandra).
Box 29, Folder 6 Vagabond 20
Contents Note: The Final (and Definitive) Addendum to the Commemorative Bibliography of William Wantling (2 copies; 1 of which is initialed).
Box 29, Folder 7 Vagabond 20
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors, etc., and biographical notes: Kowit, Steve; Lerner, David, Powell, Leslie; Darby, Brad; Redall, Dave; NorthSun, Nila
Box 29, Folder 8x Vagabond 21- Manuscript material for issue 21
Contents Note: The Academy Awards; and other poems (Taylor, Kent); Sunset Scavengers; etc. (Robertson, Kell); Dream in the Apartment on Main Street ; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Minus the Dying (Menebroker, Ann); Energies (Menebroker, Ann); The Gap (Wyss, Greg); no luck (NorthSun, Nila); gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve); This Diamond Fish; etc. (Odam, Joyce); A little Farther Along; etc. (Robertson, Kirk); The Whore (Kryss, T); Uninvited; and other poems (King, Linda); Life and Co. (Blazekm, Douglas); THe Neighbor Girl (Bennett, John); I Mentioned Indians; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); Tuesday in a Marriage; etc. (James, Eileen).
Box 29, Folder 9 Vagabond 22- Manuscript material for issue 22
Contents Note: Ghosts (Suterland, N.B.); Old Men (Terrill, Mark); Monkey Balls (Masarik, Al); Maroon (Dybek, Stuart); gagaku (Richmond, Steve).
Box 29, Folder 10 Vagabond 22- Manuscript material for issue 22
Contents Note: Pilgrims (Steward, D.E.)
Box 29, Folder 11 Vagabond 23/24 - Manuscript material for issue 23/24
Contents Note: He would Make a Fine Bank Robber; etc. (Penfold, Gerda); Tongue; etc. (McMahon, Michael); 8/1/75; etc. (Hill , Nellie); Separations (Ginsburg, Carl); I Must Tell YOu (Mechem, James); Rented Space (Petty, Ryan); William Wantling, 7 on Style, Second Coming, 1975; etc. (Mangelsdorff, Rich); A Cathouse in Cincinnati; and other poems (Masarik, Al).
Box 29, Folder 12 Vagabond 23/24 - Manuscript material for issue 23/24
Contents Note: Suggestions for Inducing Apoplexy in the Forest Service (Powell, Leslie); Sphinx (Montgomery, George); Painting; etc.(Esmonde, Joe); the Great Poet (Scandalios, Alex N.); Changes; etc. (London, Jonathan); Mouthful of Braces (Terrill, Mark); Seizure; etc. (Menebroker, Ann); Madhouse Memoirs (King, Geraldine); Who's Loitering (Glen, Emilie); Country Western Station (Thrift, Carol); too much needing (Whispering Star, R); Making Love; etc. (Zegers, Kip); The Would-Be Rebels Laughed (Vincent, Ray); Blizzard Eyes (Beining, Guy); The Passing (Thomas, Gregory Kinsman); Photograph; and other poems (Lifshin, Lyn); Outdated (Ming Tong, Lorraine); Sleeping alone (McCarthy, Joanne); I put my tongue (Rutherford, Michael).
Box 29, Folder 13 Vagabond 23/24 - Manuscript material for issue 23/24
Contents Note: Great Granny (Cooper, M. Truman); Somebody; etc. (Case,Sandra); My Life (Ayne, Blythe); Sudden Bachelorhood; and other poems (Taylor, Kent); Salute to York, Nebraska (Garmon, John); To Hold with the Hares and Run with the Hounds (Pollak, Feliz); the finger; etc. (Pollak, Felix); Out of Loneliness (Nicoletta, Peter).
Box 29, Folder 14 Vagabond 23/24 - Correspondence with contributors, etc., including biographical notes, etc.
Contents Note: Ginsburg, Carl; McEnteer, James; Ming Tong, Lorraine; Rob.
Box 29, Folder 15 Vagabond 23/24 - Correspondence with contributors, etc., including biographical notes, etc.
Contents Note: Beining, Guy; Stu; Hitchcock, George and Bennett, John; Sutherland, Norman B.; McCarthy, Joanne.
Box 29, Folder 16 Vagabond 23/24 - Correspondence with contributors, etc., including biographical notes, etc.
Contents Note: Case, Sandra; Whispering Star, R.; Jones, David L.; Hill, Nellie; Nicoletta, Peter; Cook, Paul.
Box 29, Folder 17 Vagabond 23/24 - Correspondence with contributors, etc., including biographical notes, etc.
Contents Note: Thomas, Gregory K.; background on Felix Pollak.
Box 30, Folder 1 Vagabond 25 - Manuscript material for issue 25
Contents Note: Indian money (NorthSun, Nila); Suspect in the Scarlet Hour (Johnson, Nan C.); All th Fields (Cirino, Leonard); bell jar juve (Macon, E.L.); One shaft of Sunlight (Lindner, Carl); Thrust and Parry; etc. (Matte, Robert).
Box 30, Folder 2-3 Vagabond 25 - Manuscript material for issue 25
Contents Note: Interview with Tom Robbins (Barnes, Timothy and Marie-Elise); 2 versions of.
Box 30, Folder 4 Vagabond 25 - Manuscript material for issue 25
Contents Note: Ballerina by the sea; and other poems (Kryss, Tom); Sisters (Joosse, Barbara M.); Compassion (Summers, Anthony J.); The Part of Her that is Silent; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); Susa; and other poems (Powell, Pamela Leslie); round trip from San Francisco (Taylor, Kent); Claudia; etc. (Kowit, Steve); She Fucks and I Fuck; etc. (Grapes, Marcus J.); this is as far; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Old Time Radio Hour (Nicoletta, Peter); snake dancer, etc. Robertson, Kirk); gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve).
Box 30, Folder 5 Vagabond 25 - Manuscript material for issue 25
Contents Note: Carnival (Steward, D.E).
Box 30, Folder 6 Vagabond 25 - Manuscript material for issue 25
Contents Note: The Incomplete Works of Richard Krech: Poems (Mangelsdorff, Rich).
Box 30, Folder 7 Vagabond 25
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributor: Smith, Joan.
Box 30, Folder 8 Vagabond 25
Contents Note: Photograph for cover layout.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 10 pp.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 6 pp.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 7 pp.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 10 pp.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 5 pp.
Box 30, Folder 9 Vagabond 25 - Layout, 50 pp
Contents Note: 12 pp.
Box 31, Folder 1 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Nursing Home (Barnes, W.D.); The Face (Skloot, Floyd); He is looking for Something Other than I Have to Give; and other poems (Menebroker, Ann); Waiting for the Bus in Ball Square (Hogan, Ed); Geo Rogers Clark Orders; etc. (Moore, Todd); Meeting and Old Friend on the Street (Nicoletta, Peter); Zero-ing In (Freek, George A.).
Box 31, Folder 2 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Dallas (Smith, Jared); La Guardia (Smith, Jared); On the Bearpaw Sea (Kryss,Tom); George Chambers (review by Beck Art); Meeting for the First Time; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); I don't know what love has got to do with happiness; and other poems (Masarik, Al);
Box 31, Folder 3 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Gagaku poems (Richmond, Steve); Questions, Answers (Beck, Art & Masarik, Al); In the garden fists; and other poems (Masarik, Al); Black Magic; and other poems (Murray, Carole).
Box 31, Folder 4-5 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Existential Gypsies (Bennett, John); 2 versions, 34 pp.
Box 31, Folder 6 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Gerry and I (Koertge, Ronald); My Summer Vacation (review by Kowit, Steve); Exercises in Memorizing Myself (review by Kowit, Steve); He's Read Them All (Scotellaro, Robert); Excerpts form Dreem People (Fox, Hugh); Words About the Profession (Brett, Peter).
Box 31, Folder 7 Vagabond 26 - Manuscript material for issue 26
Contents Note: Some Questions and Answers (Bellow, Saul); At her Funeral; Twenty- Five Years after Conception (Fericano, Paul F.); Hard Frost Warnings; For Kathy (Kooser, Ted); Evening (Thomas, Lisa); Found Under a Rock (Fanning, Patricia); Contributors' Notes.
Box 31, Folder 8 Vagabond 26
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors, etc. including biographical notes: Bennett, John; Fanning, Pat; Smith, Jared; Thomas, Lisa; Skloot, Floyd; Barnes, W.D.; Brett, Peter; Murray, Carole.
Box 31, Folder 9 Vagabond 27 - Manuscript material for issue 27
Contents Note: Lay of the Land (editorial); Variations (Beck, Art); Wandering (Grossman, Richard); Beck/Penfold: discussions; Call It What they Wish; and other poems (Penfold, Gerda); I Grasp a Star; and other poems (Taylor, Kent).
Box 31, Folder 10 Vagabond 27 - Manuscript material for issue 27
Contents Note: Every August; and other poems (Masarik, Al); The Mall (Reddall, Dave); Dust (Haslam, Gerald); Brown Funk (Bennett, John); Cloudburst at Harvester Home; etc. (Hughes, Dorothy); Reviews by Bennett; No (Kowit, Steve); La raza (NorthSun, Nila).
Box 31, Folder 11 Vagabond 27 - Manuscript material for issue 27
Contents Note: What Women Want (Michaund, Rachel); Living in the Right Life (Tidler, Charles); How you Died; etc. (Halperin, Mark); The Great Seattle Caper(Bennett); Midway (Matte.Jr, Robert); Contributors' Notes.
Box 31, Folder 12 Vagabond 27 - Manuscript material for issue 27
Contents Note: Drawing for issue 27 illustrations.
Box 32, Folder 1 Vagabond 28 - Manuscript material for issue 28
Contents Note: The True Picture; and other poems (Shihab, Naomi); Stull Tapes (Stull, Wallek, Bennett).
Box 32, Folder 2 Vagabond 28 - Manuscript material for issue 28
Contents Note: Punch-Drunk Fighter (Bennett, John); brush fire; and other poems (Masarik, Al); Another Cafe; etc. (Chaet, Eric); Fat Head Poem (Bukowski, Charles); the lunch wagon ... (Stone, Jennifer); correspondence: Bennett/Stone; The Nun; and other poems (Beck, Art).
Box 32, Folder 3 Vagabond 28 - Manuscript material for issue 28
Contents Note: Mother's Funeral; Father's Funeral (Faucher, Real); Invocation; etc. (Kowit, Steve); Reviews (Blazek, Doug; Steward, D.E.); In the Half-Poiint Time of Night (Menebroker, Ann); Contributors' Notes.
Box 32, Folder 4 Vagabond 28
Contents Note: Additional manuscript material that does not appear in the printed issue; includes: Dolly Gonightly (Ingram, Alyce); note from Ingram (4 pp.)
Box 32, Folder 5 Vagabond 28
Contents Note: Correspondence with contributors, etc.: Blazek, Doug; Bunch, Grant; Haslam, Gerald.
Box 32, Folder 6 Vagabond 28 - Original manuscript material for issue 29
Contents Note: The Beast (Bennett, John); fossil; and other poems (Masarik, Al).
Box 32, Folder 7 Vagabond 28 - Original manuscript material for issue 29
Contents Note: Crossing (Steward, D.E.); Gas Masks in the Attic (Matte, Jr., Robert); "Three ..." (Vargas, R.);Brooklyn Sundays; etc.(Skoot, Floyd); Birth Day (Speer, Laurel); Protecting the Innocent(Chambers, George); For a Wizard Lover(Warren, Lisa); Not for Me (Zawadiwsky, Christine); We were Twins in the ... (Penfold, Gerda).
Box 32, Folder 8 Vagabond 28
Contents Note: The Cleveland Underground Poetry Scene (Taylor, Kent); Contributors' Notes, etc.
 1978 Oct 21, 1978 Oct 24
Box 32, Folder 9 Vagabond 28
Contents Note: Preliminary layout planning, 19 pp.
Box 32, Folder 10 Vagabond 30 - Partial manuscript for issue 30
Contents Note: News after Midnight; What Men Always Do in the Woods; A Minor Crisis; A logical conclusion; The Crazy Girl on the Bus; How Talent Gets Discovered; Lebensraum; The Ten Day Final Demand; Anybody who eats ice cream like you do must know where it 's at; Beautiful people; Discount Coupons and Special Offers for the Smart Shopper; La-La; At McDonald's Celebration of Life; Standoff; On Patriotism; Paranoia
Box 32, Folder 11 Vagabond 30 - Partial manuscript for issue 30
Contents Note: Frozen; There is a paucity ...; what is poetry doing...; So you would know...; Garden Work; Substitute; The day the war ended; The first time I played baseball; Hornets; Heat; This business of growing ...; Our Friend Jane; The Hare Krishna Days; We have Not Yet Sold out to the Metric System; A couple of fatsoes; I have this way; I finally read Saroyan; The hermit across the alley has...; Months; Dancing in the kitchen to Zorba the Greek when the music goes off; The Wheelbarrow Lady; Postage Due; Concentration; Bloopers; New Systems; Knowing About Things.
Box 32, Folder 12 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Electric stencils/layout, 6 pp.
Box 32, Folder 13 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Arts festival publicity (boards)
Box 33, Folder 1 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #1, 6 pp.; all in John Bennett's hand.
Box 33, Folder 2 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Circular letter (printed) from Police Mutual Benefit Associations
Box 33, Folder 3 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: 4 newsclippings.
Box 33, Folder 4 Vagabond 30 - Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #2
Contents Note: Orientation, in John Bennett's hand, 3 pp.
Box 33, Folder 5 Vagabond 30 - Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #2
Contents Note: Interview with Paul Chassaignac (Bennett, John), 9 pp,; horoscope, 1 p.
Box 33, Folder 6 Vagabond 30 - Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #2
Contents Note: Crime, in John Bennett's hands, 4 pp.; Dirksen Becomes RightWinger, in John Bennett's hand, 2 pp.; Coffee House Fable, in John Bennett's hand, 1 p.
Box 33, Folder 7 Vagabond 30 - Manuscript material for Mr. Clean #2
Contents Note: -the park?... ; the Brothers Grimm minds were blown today; New Orleans #1 (Sadler, Bob), 3 pp.; Gift Wrapping; and other poems (Hamilton, Fritz) , 6 pp.; Well now you just be sure you dehorn spermatozoa...; and other poems (Steiner, Kurt), 4 pp.
Box 33, Folder 8 Vagabond 30 - Manuscript mtaterial for Mr. Clean #2
Contents Note: Comments concerning Mr. Clean, in John Bennet's hand, 2 pp.
Box 33, Folder 9 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: Correspondence: one letter from Bennett to William Holliday.
Box 33, Folder 10 Vagabond 30
Contents Note: 9 newsclippings.

Series 2. Subseries E. Material for Kamikaze Rejects
John Bennett's list (below) of possible contributors contains names of individuals whose correspondence is not includeed here. These are preceded by an asterisk. Possible contributors: Norbert Blei; Charles Bukowski; Jerry Bumpus; Albert Drake; Hugh Fox; Marcus J. Grapes; Alyce Ingram; Curt Johnson; Linda King; Rich Mangelsdorff; Harold Norse; Gerda Penfold; Charles Plymell; Robert Peters; Charles Potts; Tom Kryss; Lynn Savitt; Carl Weissner; Willie and others.

"Kamikaze Rejects was an attempt in the winter of 1979/80 to shape up another publication after the demise of Vagabond in the summer of 1979. A lot of preliminary contacts were made, but the magazine never got off the ground."

Container Description Date
Box 33, Folder 11 Correspondence to possible contributors from Bennett
Contents Note: Identification of material by Bennett; 5 TLS to: Beck. Art; Bernstein, Jesse; Blei, Norbert; Bukowski, Charles; Bumpus, Jerry
 1980 Jan 13, 1980 Jan 14
Box 33, Folder 12 Correspondence to possible contributors from Bennett
Contents Note: 5 TLS to: Corso, Gregory; Drake, Albert; Dybeck, Dennis; Fox, Hugo; Grapes, Marcus Jack.
 1980 Jan 14
Box 33, Folder 13 Correspondence to possible contributors from Bennett
Contents Note: 7 TLS to: Ingram, Alyce; Johnson, Curt; Kaufman, Bob; Kryss, Tom; Masarik, Al; Orem, James; Saunder, Jack.
 1980 Jan 13, 1980 Jan 14
Box 33, Folder 14 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 2 TLS from Norbert Blei
 1980 Feb 07, 1980 Feb 24
Box 33, Folder 15 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Charles Bukowski.
 1980 Feb 22
Box 33, Folder 16 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 ACS, 2 TLS from Jerry Bumpus
 1980 Jan 22
Box 33, Folder 17 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 3 TLS from Walt Curtis, two with TMs on verso.
 1980 Jan 24, 1980 Mar 07
Box 33, Folder 18 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Albert Drake with announcement on verso.
 1980
Box 33, Folder 19 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Dennis Dybeck
 1980 Feb 19
Box 33, Folder 20 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Hugo Fox.
 1980 Feb 01
Box 33, Folder 21 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Marcus Jack Grapes.
 1980 Feb 02
Box 33, Folder 22 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Alyce Ingram.
 1980 Jan 19
Box 33, Folder 23 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Diane Kruchkow
 1980 Jan 21, 1980 Feb 11
Box 33, Folder 24 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Tom Kryss
 1980 Jan 19
Box 33, Folder 25 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Annie Menebroker
 1980 Feb 03
Box 33, Folder 26 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from George Montgomery
Box 33, Folder 27 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Harold Norse
 1980 Mar 05
Box 33, Folder 28 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Gerda Penfold
 1980 Jan 19
Box 33, Folder 29 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 ALS from RJS
Box 33, Folder 30 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 ALS from Lynn Sawit with order form
 1980 Feb 17
Box 33, Folder 31 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from D.E. Steward
 1980 Feb 10
Box 33, Folder 32 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Ed Swan
 1980 Feb 05
Box 33, Folder 33 Correspondence from possible contributors to Bennett
Contents Note: 1 TLS from Charles Tidler
 1980 Feb 06

Series 2. Subseries F. Correspondence and Materials
Generated While Participating in the Controversial November 1977 Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Grants Committee.

Container Description Date
Box 34, Folder 1 Statements by Kruchkow, Smith & Bennett
Contents Note: Bennett: 2 letters to CCLM; both Feb 8/78 (TLS) An Elaboration Upon Harry Smith's "Neatness Counts". Reflections on the fall of 77 Grants Committee.
Box 34, Folder 2 Statements by Kruchkow, Smith & Bennett
Contents Note: Smith: Rought draft of Smith's statement to be delivered to CCLM Board.
Box 34, Folder 3 Statements by Kruchkow, Smith & Bennett
Contents Note: Kruchkow: Statement on Fall CCLM Grants; typed and widely distributed.
Box 34, Folder 4 Bennett to Others
Contents Note: Judy Hogan, Chair, COSMEP, South, CODA; Richard Morris, Coordinator, COSMEP
 1978 Jan 06, 1978 Feb 11, 1977 Dec 01
Box 34, Folder 5 Bennett to CCLM
Contents Note: 4 letters
 1977 Oct 10, 1977 Nov 01, 1978 Feb 16
Box 34, Folder 6 CCLM to Bennett
Contents Note: 5 letters
 1977 Oct 24, 1977 Oct 25, 1977 Nov 04, 1978 Apr 24, 1978 May 10
Box 34, Folder 7 Kruchkow to Bennett
Contents Note: 4 letters
 1977 Nov 23, 1977 Nov 28
Box 34, Folder 8 Smith to Bennett
Contents Note: 2 letters; not dates
Box 34, Folder 10 Others to Smith (copies)
Contents Note: Charles Plymell, no date; Cross Cultural Review, no date; Steve Lewandowski.
 1978 Apr 04
Box 34, Folder 11 Smith to others(copies)
Contents Note: Kruchkow; Richard Morris, COSMEP; Louise, uncertain of identity but letter specifically about grants committee
Box 34, Folder 12 Kruchkow to Others
Contents Note: CCLM; Richard Morris, COSMEP; Sasha Newborn, Mudborn Press; Robert Novak; A.J.Poulin
 1977 Jan 04 -1978 Jan 22
Box 34, Folder 13 Others to CCLM
Contents Note: June Fortess, NY State Council on the Arts; Len Fulton, SPR. To NEA, not CCLM; Robert Novak, The Windless Orchard.
 1978 Feb 08 - 1977 Dec 12
Box 34, Folder 14 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Aspect; Assassin; Bachy; Backwash; Bad Breath
Box 34, Folder 15 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Berkeley Poet's Coop; Bitterroot; Black Jack; Boston Gay Review
Box 34, Folder 16 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Centering; Chomo-Uri; Choomia; Coffeehouse; Contact II.
Box 34, Folder 17 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: CQ (Contemporary Quarterly); Dakotah Territory; Daimon; Delirium; Diana's Bi-monthly.
Box 34, Folder 18 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: East River Review; Euterpe; Flute; Gargoyle; Ghost Dance.
Box 34, Folder 19 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Greater Golden Hills; Poetry Express; Green's Magazine; Grove; Gub Street
Box 34, Folder 20 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Harbinger; Heirs; Hills
Box 35, Folder 1 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Illuminations; Image; Intrepid; Itinerary
Box 35, Folder 2 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Juice; Kansas Quarterly; La - Bas.
Box 35, Folder 3 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Madrona; Mr.Cogito; Museum of Temporary Art; Nausea; New Earth Review (NY): Northeast Rising Sun
Box 35, Folder 4 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Phantasm; Pivot; Poetry Mailing List; Primavera; Quarterly West.
Box 35, Folder 5 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Remington Review; Rockbottom; Room.
Box 35, Folder 6 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Salthouse; San Francisco Review of Books; Slick Press Poetry Mag; Song; Spirit That moves Us; Sun & Moon.
Box 35, Folder 7 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Unearth; Unmuzzled Ox; Washington Review of the Arts; West Coast Poetry Review; Wild Iris.
Box 35, Folder 8 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Yellow Brick Road; Zunkuft
Box 35, Folder 9 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: AIEE; AIS-EIRI; American Poetry Review; Beloit Poetry Journal; Beyond Baroque.
Box 35, Folder 10 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Bridge; Charloteer; Cottonwood Review; Drama Review; Dramatika.
Box 35, Folder 11 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Driftwood East; Hudson River Anthology; Impact; Indiana Writes; Interstate.
Box 36, Folder 1 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Just Buffalo; Lowlands Review; Modularist Review; Montemora; Nassau Review
Box 36, Folder 2 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: New America; New Earth Review (North Carolina); New Infinity Review; New Jersey Poetry Monthly; New River Review.
Box 36, Folder unknown container CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Nicotine Soup; Nimrod; Not Guilty; NRG
Box 36, Folder 4 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Open Places; Pawn Review; Peace & Pieces Review; Pembroke; Penny Dreadful.
Box 36, Folder 5 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Periodical of Art; In Nebraska (Pan); Personal injury; Pocket Poetry; Pulp; Quarterly Review of Literature.
Box 36, Folder 6 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Review; Roof; Rufus; Samisdat; Seems.
Box 36, Folder 7 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Shankpainter; Shout in the Street; South & West; Star-Web Paper; Third Eye.
Box 36, Folder 8 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: This; Unspeakable Visions; Uroboros; U.S. 1 Worksheets; U.T. Review.
Box 36, Folder 9 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Valhalla; Vile; Village Idiot; Voyeur; Washout Review.
Box 36, Folder 10 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Weid; Western Poetry Quarterly; Westigan Review; White Pine Press; Windless Orchard.
Box 36, Folder 11 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Xalman; Yale Theatre.
Box 37, Folder 1 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Agni Review; Brilliant Corners; Fac Rac; Field; Grilled Flowers.
Box 37, Folder 2 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Hudson Review; Lake Superior Review; Latin American; Literary Review; Momentum; Moon & Lion Tailes.
Box 37, Folder 3 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: New Renaissance; Northwest Review; Quartet; Shantih; Small Moon
Box 37, Folder 4 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Stroker; Tooth of Time Review.
Box 37, Folder 5 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: 3 lists of magazines and recommendations; memo from Patricia Jones; handwritten not with figures.
Box 37, Folder 6-7 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Agenda book furnished by CCLM prior to grants committee meeting, 73 pp; front cover binder of the above.
Box 37, Folder 8 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Post-committee reports from three members of grants committee prior to committee
 1977 Nov
Box 37, Folder 9 CCLM Grants Committee Material
Contents Note: Four memoranda from CCLM to grants committee.
 1977 Sep 29 - 1977 Oct 21

Series 2. Subseries G. Correspondence and Materials Generated While Chairman of Board, COSMEP, 1981 Mar -1981 Dec
"COSMEP" was at first the Conference of Small Magazine/Press Editors and Publishers (held in Berkely, California, in May 1968). It resulted in the "new COSMEP", Cooperative of Small Magazine/Press Editors and Publishers.

Container Description Date
Box 37, Folder 10 Letter to Board upon being elected Chair (TLS from John Bennett).
Box 37, Folder 11 Letter of resignation
Contents Note: Letter of resignation to membership at large, with two rough drafts (TLS from John Bennett.
Box 37, Folder 12 Early COSMEP correspondence
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB
 1968 May - 1975 Jan
Box 37, Folder 13 Early COSMEP correspondence
Contents Note: 5 letters to COSMEP
 1968 May - 1975 Jan
Box 37, Folder 14 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: COSMEP (Richard Morris)
Contents Note: 12 letters to JB
 1975 May 28 - 1975 Dec 15
Box 37, Folder 16 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: COSMEP (Richard Morris)
Contents Note: 4 letters to COSMEP (Morris)
 1975 May 28 - 1975 Dec 15
Box 37, Folder 17 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Jim Cody
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB
 1975 Jun 20
Box 37, Folder 18 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Jim Cody
Contents Note: 2 letters to JC
 1975 Jun 14, 1975 Jun 23
Box 37, Folder 19 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Joe Flaherty (Book Bus)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB
 1975 Jun 19
Box 37, Folder 20 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Joe Flaherty (Book Bus)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB with name and address slip.
 1975 Jun 14, 1975 Jun 23
Box 38, Folder 1 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Paul Foreman (former board member, COSMEP)
Contents Note: 1 letter to PF
 1975 Jun 18
Box 38, Folder 2 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Diane Kruchkow (former Chair)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB
 1975 Jun 04
Box 38, Folder 3 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Diane Kruchkow
Contents Note: 1 letter to DK
Box 38, Folder 4 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Hugh Fox
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB
Box 38, Folder 5 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Hugh Fox
Contents Note: 1 letter to HF.
 1975 Jun 10
Box 38, Folder 6 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Len Fulton (founder of COSMEP)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB
 1975 Jul 13
Box 38, Folder 7 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Len Fulton (founder of COSMEP)
Contents Note: 2 letters to LF.
 1975 Jun 22, 1975 Jul 17
Box 38, Folder 8 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Judy Hogan (Chair, COSMEP South)
Contents Note: 2 letters to JB
 1975 Jun 05, 1975 Jul 18
Box 38, Folder 9 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Judy Hogan
Contents Note: 1 letter to JH
 1975 Jun 10
Box 38, Folder 10 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Mary MacArthur (board member)
Contents Note: 1 letter to JB, n.d; 1 letter to MM
 1975 Jun 10
Box 38, Folder 11 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Noel Peattie (board member; organizer of Davis conference).
Contents Note: 4 letters to JB
 1975 May 20 - 1975 Jun 24
Box 38, Folder 12 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Noel Peattie (board member; organizer of Davis conference).
Contents Note: 4 letters to JP
 1975 May 25 - 1975 Jun 29
Box 38, Folder 13 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Ann Pride (board member)
Contents Note: 7 letters to JB
Box 38, Folder 14 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: Ann Pride (board member)
Contents Note: 2 letters to AP
Box 38, Folder 15 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: A.D. Winans (board member).
Contents Note: 3 letters to JB
Box 38, Folder 16 Correspondence with COSMEP and related matters after being elected chair: A.D.Winans (board member)
Contents Note: 1 letters to ADW
Box 38, Folder 17 General notes
Contents Note: Questions; directors; conferences; board reports; to do; being done; newsletter information; under "to do" and "being done" are included: reading circuit; technical pamphlets; IRS letter; prison project.
Box 38, Folder 18-19 Papers on Board of Directors.
Box 38, Folder 20-21 Discusions on Book Van.
Box 38, Folder 22 Discussion of First Amendment.
Box 38, Folder unknown container Discussion of distribution
Box 38, Folder 24 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to discussion of financial matters.
Box 38, Folder 25 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to discussion of by-laws.
Box 38, Folder 26 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to membership list.
Box 38, Folder 27-28 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to Davis, California meetings, etc.
Box 38, Folder 29 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to San Francisco Book Fair.
Box 38, Folder 30 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to Definitions Committee
Box 38, Folder 31-32 Miscellaneous papers
Contents Note: Notes and memoranda pertaining to COSMEP Newsletter issues.

Series 2. Subseries H. Controversy with NEA, 1969 Jun - 1969 Nov

Container Description Date
Box 39, Folder 1 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: AAUP news release; 1 letter from JB to AAUP; 1 letter from NEA to JB.
 1969 Jun 18, 1969 Aug 14
Box 39, Folder 2 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. 2 copies of letter itself.
Box 39, Folder 3 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Accompanying letter to Saturday Review, etc.
 1969 Oct 13
Box 39, Folder 4 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Rough draft
Box 39, Folder 5 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Open Letter to NEA, [1969] (dated 10.13.1492 by JB), sent to: Saturday Review; Nola Express; Ramparts; The Smith Newsletter; Evergreen Review; Doug Blazek. Research notes, 9 pp.
Box 39, Folder 6 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: 2 letters from JB to NEA
 1969 Dec 17
Box 39, Folder 7 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: 2 letters from NEA to JB
 1969 Nov 14, 1969 Dec 08
Box 39, Folder 8 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: 1 letter from NEA to Saturday Review & other mags mentioned above
 1969 Nov 14
Box 39, Folder 9 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: 3 letters from Harry Smith (The Newsletter) to JB
 1969 Oct 27, 1969 Nov 19, 1970 Apr 13
Box 39, Folder 10 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: 2 letters to Smith from JB
 1969 Dec 06, 1970 Apr 08
Box 39, Folder 11 Correspondence leading up to Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Literature programs announcements from National Council on the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts.
Box 39, Folder 11 Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Literature programs announcements from National Council on the Arts & National Endowment for the Arts
Box 39, Folder 12 Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines announcements, etc.
Box 39, Folder 13 Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Press release for Association of American University Presses; Xeroxed articles from "Saturday Review" and "ChicagoLand".

Series 2. Subseries I. Controversy with "Invisible City" Editors

Container Description Date
Box 39, Folder 14x Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Invisible City contains four controversial essays by Paul Vangelisti, Franco Beltrametti, John McBride, and Neeli Cherry, pp 25, 26
 1974 Sep
Box 39, Folder 15x Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Invisible City; contains Bennett's reply to controversial essays of Vangelisti, Beltrametti, McBride, and Cherry and also contains McBride's and Vangelisti's reply to Bennett, pp. 29, 30.
Box 39, Folder 16 Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: TMs "Several Essays: Paul Vangelisti, Franco Beltrametti, John McBride, and Neeli Cherry", by John Bennett, 4 99.; this is the manuscript form of Bennett's printed reply above.
Box 39, Folder 17 Miscellaneous items associated with Open Letter to NEA
Contents Note: Vagabond Supplement, 8 pp.,containing the discussion and controversy described above, reprinted by Vagabond, with John Bennett's final statement.
Box 39, Folder 18 Correspondence related to IC Controversy.
Contents Note: 2 letters from JB to Tom Montag of Margins
 1976 Jun 06
Box 39, Folder 19 Correspondence related to IC Controversy.
Contents Note: 1 letter from TM to JB
 1976 Jun 10
Box 39, Folder 20 Correspondence related to IC Controversy.
Contents Note: 1 letter from John McBride (IC Ed.) to JB; 1 letter from RJS (Cleveland poet/publisher) to JB; 1 letter from Sally McCluskey to JB; 1 letter from "Henry", Vagabond subscriber, to JB
 1976 Oct 22
Box 40, Folder 1 Correspondence related to IC Controversy.

Series 2. Subseries J. Copies of Vagabond publications

Container Description Date
Box 40, Folder 1 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #1 (Signed by most contributors).
Box 40, Folder 2 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #3
Box 40, Folder 3 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #5 (English)
Box 40, Folder 4 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #5 (German issue)
Box 40, Folder 5 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #6
Box 40, Folder 6 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #8
Box 40, Folder 7 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #9
Box 40, Folder 8 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #11
Box 40, Folder 9 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #12
Box 40, Folder 10 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #14
Box 40, Folder 11 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #15
Box 41, Folder 1 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #16
Box 41, Folder 2 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #17
Box 41, Folder 3 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #18
Box 41, Folder 4 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #19
Box 41, Folder 5 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #20
Box 41, Folder 6 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #21
Box 41, Folder 7 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #22
Box 41, Folder 8-9 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #23/24 (with supplement).
Box 42, Folder 1-2 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #25 (with supplement)
Box 42, Folder 3 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #26
Box 42, Folder 4 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #27
Box 42, Folder 5 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #28
Box 42, Folder 6 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #29
Box 42, Folder 7 Vagabond Magazine
Contents Note: #30
Box 43, Folder 1 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #1 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 2 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #2 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 3 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #3 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 4 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #4 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 5 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #5 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 6 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #6 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 7 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #7 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 8 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #8 (signed by author)
Box 43, Folder 9 Vagabond Chapbook Series
Contents Note: #9 (signed by author)
Box 44, Folder 1 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: An End to Pinball, Al Masarik (signed).
Box 44, Folder 2 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Invitation to a Dying, Masarik (signed).
Box 44, Folder 3 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Post Card from Europe, Masarik (signed).
Box 44, Folder 4 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Red Mountain Agatha Christie & Love (signed).
Box 44, Folder 5 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: French Quarter Interviews.
Box 44, Folder 6 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Mr. Clean #2.
Box 44, Folder 7 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: The Vagabond Anthology.
Box 45, Folder 1 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: The Worms Are Singing, Jerry Bumpus (1st ed., signed).
Box 45, Folder 2 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: The Worms Are singing, Jerry Bumpus (2nd ed., signed).
Box 45, Folder 3 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Lace and a Bobbitt, Curt Johnson (signed).
Box 45, Folder 4 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Sweet and Dirty, Linda King (1st ed., signed).
Box 45, Folder 5 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Sweet and Dirty, Linda King (2nd ed., signed).
Box 45, Folder 6 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Six Poets
Box 45, Folder 7 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Vagabond order form with publicity.

Series 2. Subseries K. Miscellaneous

Container Description Date
Box 45, Folder 8 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Two letters from Charles Bukowski.
Box 45, Folder 9 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Bukowski drawings (originals) done for Six Poets. Includes drawings of: John Bennett, Joel Deutsch, Ronald Koertge, Lyn Lifshin, Al Masarik, Ann Menebroker, Gerda Penfold, John Thomas.
Box 45, Folder 10 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Film drawing and Planning sheet for Six Poets.
Box 45, Folder 11 Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Cover film & title page material for first edition of Six Poets.
Box 45, Folder 12x Vagabond Books
Contents Note: Cover Layout for second edition of Six Poets.

Series 2. Subseries L. Museum Objects

Container Description Date
Box 46 Hardback cover for anthology and type for spine.
Contents Note: For more details, see following Box 26 fd. 5.
Box 46 Steamer trunk
Contents Note: For more details, see following Box 45, fd.12
Box 46 Mimeograph machine
Contents Note: For more details, see the following Box 45, fd.12