LS 590-991: The American Literary Small Press Spring 2005

Dr. Weddle

University of Alabama
School of Library and Information Studies

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Course Description Course Description: This course explores both little magazine and small press book publishing in the United States from the colonial period through the present. Emphasis is on the unique elements which both enhance the freedom and limit the viability of small publishers. Attention is also given to the literary ambitions and achievements of the publishers under consideration.

SMALL PRESS
Small Press Distribution Books Online Dustbooks Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Small Press Spotlight Small Press Center
Small Presses Owned and Operated by People of Color Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network (SPAWN) PubMart BigSmallPressMall
Autonomedia Detritus Books A Flashing Heaven of Luck: Black Sparrow Press Leaves a Mighty Legacy A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive (University of Alberta) Inventory of the Black Sparrow Press Records, 1967-1976 )The University of New Mexico, General Library Center for Southwest Research)
Small Press Largess (Poets & Writers Editor's Note on Black Sparrow Press) Black Sparrow Press Archives, 1967-1974 (Pennsylvania State University) Black Sparrow Folds Its Wings (Poets & Writers) McPherson & Company Graywolf Press
SR Publisher Calls It Quits (Black Sparrow Closing) Black Sparrow Flies No More New Wave Canada (Canadian Small Press History) Empty Mirror Books NewPages: Alternatives in Print and Media

 

 

LITERARY MAGAZINES
American Poetry Review Black Warrior Review Exquisite Corpse Chiron Review Bathtub Gin Challenging Destiny Poetry
Fine Madness Long Shot Hadrosaur Tales Slipstream Jones Av Pacific Coast Journal Parting Gifts
American Dissident Pearl Cimarron Review The Hollins Critic Front And Centre Fantasy & Science Fiction The Georgia Review
The Broken Pencil subTerrain Altar Gargoyle Many Mountains Moving Futures North American Review
Antigonish Review The Toronto Review Descant Flyaway Rattapallax Whiskey Island Ruah
Vallum Nocturnal Lyric Rattle Illuminations Stone Soup Dreams And Nightmares Beloit Poetry Journal
Kaleidoscope Agni In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself Poesy Blind Man's Rainbow Wallace Stevens Journal Epicenter
580 Split

 

 

PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY
Reader's Companion to American History (Publishing) Reader's Companion to American History (Newspapers and Magazines) Reader's Companion to American History (Literature) American Printing History Association American Antiquarian Association Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Publishing History

 

 

FINE PRINTING
William S. Peterson's Fine Printing Site The Noble Craftsmen We Promote: The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest 25 Years: The Book Art Movement 1974-1999 Fine Printing (Commercial Printer) Arion Press (Fine Press Publisher) The Book Art of Richard Minski Fine Printing and Binding (Indiana University's Lilly Library) Five Roses Press Mosher Press in Printing History Caxton Club of Chicago The Grolier Club Canadian Private Presses

 

 

THE MIMEOGRAPH REVOLUTION
"A Little History of the Mimeogrph Revolution," Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side "The Mimeograph Revolution," by Cary Loren Underground Publications Document Poetry's "Mimeo Revolution" in Exhibition at The New York Public Library In Memory of Radio And the Beat Goes On (Metro Times) The Mimeograph Machine Bohemian Ink Levy & Blazek John Bennet Interview

 

 

BEAT GENERATION
Paris Beat Ginsberg and company howl Tales from the Beat Hotel Beat Hotel Sinclair Beiles and the Beat Hotel A brief introduction to the beat (in) film The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris
Books about the Beat Generation (City Lights Page) The Beat Page Hotel Boheme Bohemianism and Counter-Culture Blue Neon Alley Poetic Acts / Kenneth Tindall

 

 

MISC.
Why Libraries Should Carry Literary Magazines The Center for the Book The Center for Book Arts Book Information Website Future of the Book The Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing Electronic Poetry Center Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry A Chronology of the Life and Work of d.a. levy
Publishing Poetry / Judson Jerome Theory of the Blogsphere as Avant-Garde FROM ZINES TO EZINES: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AND THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND by WRIGHT, FREDERICK A., Ph.D (Doctoral Dissertation) Life After COSMEP (Laughing Bear Newsletter) Laughing Bear Newsletter Hugh Fox Interview (Poesy) Lyn Lifshin's Website Robert Kelly  
Andrei Codrescu The Academy of American Poets The American Museum of Beat Art John Fante Dan Fante Interview "After the Mimeograph Revolution (on Richard Brautigan) Charles Bukowski (Good collection of links, though some are broken) Charles Bukowski: A Tribute to a Genius  
Bukowski Research Page Bohemian Ink Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties Book Marketing Web Site Bookfinder 4U Caslon Analytics Electronic Publishing Guide The Bancroft Library (Good explanation of the differences between primary and secondary Sources) Ben L. Hiatt Interview (Editor of Grande Ronde Review)  

 

 

WEB-BASED 'ZINES
Unlikely Stories Facets