Press Release Announcing the Publication of "Anthology of Beat Writing"

Seymour Krim, Sanford Beldon, Herbert Gold, Norman Podhoretz, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Barker, Chandler Brossard, Norman Mailer, John Clellon Holmes

Press release issued by Sanford Beldon of Gold Medal Books announcing the publication of "Anthology of Beat Writing" dated March 29, 1960. Anthology edited by Seymour Krim, with texts by Herbert Gold, Norman Podhoretz, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Burroughs, Richard Barker, Chandler Brossard, Norman Mailer, John Clellon Holmes and others. [details]

The Twenty Second Season of The Poetry Center : Nineteen Sixty - Nineteen Sixty One : Readings By Distinguished Poets and Actors : Lectures : Poetry and Music : Recorded Poetry : The Craft of Poetry

Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, Richard Hugo, Joseph Langland, Claire McAllister, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Margaret Avison, Edward Dorn, Theodore Enslin, e.e. cummings, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hazel, David Ignatow, Diane Wakoski, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz

Catalogue published in conjunction with the twenty-second season of readings and lectures presented by The Poetry Center, New York City, October 1960 - May 1961. Readings by Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W. ... [details]

Postcard Invitation to a Poetry Reading by Jonathan Williams at the Gotham Book Mart

Jonathan Williams, Kenneth Patchen

Postcard invitation to a poetry reading by Jonathan Williams with a display of paintings and painted books by Kenneth Patchen at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, October 19, 1960. [details]

The Living Theatre Presents The Theatre of Change: Women of Trachis by Sophokles, A Version by Ezra Pound and The Marrying Maiden by Jackson Mac Low

Ezra Pound, Jackson Mac Low

Poster announcing performances of "Women of Trachis" by Sophokles, edited by Ezra Pound and "The Marrying Maiden" by Jackson Mac Low at The Living Theatre, opening June 9, 1960. Direction by Julian Beck and Judith Maling, designs by Beck, lighting by Nichola Cernovich. ... [details]

Aileen Passloff and Co. / Monday Evening, February 22 / The Living Theatre

Ray Johnson, Aileen Passloff

Single-sided flyer / poster designed by Ray Johnson for performance by Aileen Passloff and Co. at The Living Theatre held February 22, 1960. Dancers included Joan Baker, Gerard King, Gerard Martin, Milda Memenas, Vincent Warren, and Phyllis Wax. ... [details]

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 5 (Spring 1960)

P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. Matta, Harlod Rosenberg, Alfred Russell, Jon Schueler, Jack Tworkov, Robert Vaughan, David Young

Issue number five out of six issues, published between 1958 and 1965. Texts by P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. ... [details]

First Anniversary of The Living Theatre

Julian Beck, Judith Malina

Engraved invitation card from Julian Beck and Judith Malina requesting recipient's presence at a cocktail party celebrating the first anniversary of the opening of The Living Theatre on Wednesday, January 13, 1960. [details]

Invitation to the Twenty-Second Anniversary of the Conviction of Louis Buchalter by Thomas E. Dewey

Neil Hickey, Ted Price

Invitation from Neil Hickey and Ted Price to "an evening of utter abandon" at Eugene Debs Hall, New York City, on Saturday, May 21, 1960 "'till we're raided." This date marks the twenty-second anniversary of the conviction of Louis (Lepke) Buchalter by Thomas E. ... [details]

The Founding Five

Charles Cajori, Lois Dodd, Angelo Ippolito, William King, Fred Mitchell

Poster for "The Founding Five" show featuring Charles Cajori, Lois Dodd, Angelo Ippolito, William King, and Fred Mitchell May 13 to June 3, 1960 at Tanager Gallery, New York City. [details]