Scope and Contents of SeriesSERIES 1) MAGAZINE FILES: Includes correspondence between writers, artists, graphic
designers and other journal contributors with founding editor, Mark Salerno; various
drafts of the magazine including dummies, layouts, line edits, bluelines and proofs;
and cover designs, artwork and publicity materials.
Arranged chronologically in twelve subseries by issue number: A) Number 1, B) Number
2, C) Number 3, D) Number 4, E) Number 5, F) Number 6, G) Number 7, H) Number 8, I)
Number 9, J) Number 10, K) Number 11, and L) Number 12.
A) Number 1 (Spring 1993): Contributors include Michael Lally, Lewis MacAdams, Aram
Saroyan, Kate Gale Harper, Tom Clark, Gilbert Sorrentino, Mark Salerno, Robert Creeley,
Eileen Myles, Mary Angeline, William Corbett, Carrie Etter, Edward Brookner and Jack
Hirschman, artwork by Leslie Diller Zollo, cover art by Roy Dowell, fiction by Michael
McInnis, John Laskey and Jim Krusoe and essay by Dore Ashton.
B) Number 2 (1993): Contributors to the second issue include William Bronk, Killarney
Clary, Ron Padgett, Amy Gerstler, Ray DiPalma, Joel Dailey, Sydney Walsh, Gilberto
Sorrentino, Scott Heim, Laurie Price, Clark Coolidge, and Mark Salerno, works in translation
by Francesco Moisio, Anna Lombardo, Ferruccio Brugnaro, and Rocco Scotellaro, photography
by Gerard Malanga, fiction by John Laskey, drama by Amiri Baraka, essays by William
Corbett and Alice Notley and cover art by Mary Ann Jones.
C) Number 3 (1994): Contributors include cover artwork by Willem de Kooning, poetry
by Douglas Messerli, Jim Gustafson, Michael Heller, Brian Young, Gerard Melanga, Scott
Wannberg, Carl Rakosi, Tony Towle and Mark Salerno, works in translation by Mario
Benedetti (translated by Harry Morales), photography by Nina Glaser (with prefatory
note by William Turner), interviews by Marjorie Perloff with Haroldo and Augusto de
Campos and Kevin Killian interview with David Bromige, and essays by Anselm Hollo
and Dore Ashton.
D) Number 4 (1995): Contributors include cover art by Jasper Johns and inside art
by Yoko Ono, poetry by John Ashbery, Gillian McCain, William Marsh, Barbara Guest,
Mark Salerno, Mary Angeline, Aaron Shurin, and Laura Moriarty, text by Amiri Baraka,
drama by Kenneth Koch, works in translation by Antonio Catalfamo (translated by Mark
Salerno), interview by Alexander Laurence with Gilbert Sorrentino, and essays by Richard
Kostelanetz and Fielding Dawson.
E) Number 5 (1996): Contributors include cover art by Wayne Thiebaud, back cover art
by Ted Williams, poetry by William Bronk, Beth Anderson, Forrest Gander, C. D. Wright,
Mark Salerno, and Paul Vangelisti, works in translation by Armando Romero (translated
by Alita Kelley), inside art by Roy Dowell, fiction by John Laskey, and essays by
Alice Notley and Dore Ashton.
F) Number 6 (1996): Contributors include cover art by Emerson Woelffer, back cover
art by R. Stephen Posey, poetry by Rosmarie Waldrop, Keith Waldrop, Rachel Loden,
Terence Winch, Stephanie, Marlis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Charles Henri Ford, Jocelyn
Saidenberg, Jesse Weiner and Mark Salerno, art by Alex Katz and Robert Creeley, special
selection (poem) by Ted Berrigan, fiction by Hubert Selby, Jr. and essay by Alice
Notley.
G) Number 7 (1997): Contributors include cover art by Karen Carson, poetry by Jerome
Rothenberg, Martha Ronk, Joshua Harmon, Edmund Berrigan and Robert Kelly, notebooks
by Carl Rakosi, photography by Geoffrey Nelson, drama by Sam Eisenstein, and review
by Susan McCabe.
H) Number 8 (1997): Contributors include cover art by Squeak Carnwath, poetry by William
Bronk, Jen Hofer, Edward Dorn, Aviva Bower, Mark Salerno, Peter Gizzi, and Tony Towle,
art by Renee Petropoulos, fiction by Gilbert Sorrentino and John Laskey, remembrances
by Robert Kelly and Anselm Hollo, and review by Jim Brodey.
I) Number 9 (1998): Contributors include cover art by Patrick Graham, poetry by Stephanie
Marlis, Robert Hershon, Julian Semilian, Ed Friedman, Judith Taylor and William Aiken,
special selection I by Ray DiPalma and Jim Brodey, art by Emerson Woelffer, fiction
by Linda Healey, review of Ron Pagett's New and Selected Poems by Alice Notley.
J) Number 10 (1998): Contributors include cover art by Michael Goldberg, poetry by
Paul Vangelisti, Katy Lederer, Joel Brouwer, Elizabeth Willis, Mark McManus, and Christine
Hume, Carmen Firan's Five Poems from the Romanian translated by Julian Semilian and
Sanda Agalidi and Andrei Codrescu, art by Yoko Ono, fiction by Merrill Gilfillan and
Kenward Elmslie, reviews of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters by Linda Healey, and Jerome
Rothenberg and Pierre Joris reviewed by Paul Hoover.
K) Number 11 (1999): Contributors include cover art by R.B. Kitaj, poetry by Bill
Berkson, Eleni Sikelianos, Mark Salerno, Nicole Brodsky, and Kandie St. Germain, special
project by Frank O'Hara, Art by Don Bachardy, Joe LeSueuer footnote to a poem by Frank
O'Hara, art by Alfred Leslie and Jacques Debrot, essay by Daniel Kane and review of
David Lehman by Lytle Shaw.
L) Number 12 (unpublished): Issue 12 was never published due to financial matters.
The files include correspondence, some with attached writing or artwork from potential
contributors.