Poetry Mixtape Volume VII

In 2009, while attempting to woo a music snob, I wrote to Byron Coley and asked him to help me make a mixtape. He responded with a track list called A Meat As Sad As Butter and an offer to send each side on CD-R. To say that this was cheating is an enormous understatement. Having Byron Coley help you impress a record nerd is like having Jacques Pepin help you impress a foodie. Among other things, Byron has been jazz editor at Forced Exposure, underground editor at Spin, and co-wrote the book No Wave with Thurston Moore. He has contributed liner notes to albums by John Fahey, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, The Flesh Eaters, and many, many more. Currently, Byron writes for The Wire Magazine and edits Bull Tongue Review. His deranged cultural cognition extends far beyond the bounds of music. He is the author Chuck Norris (a Chuck Norris biography), Ass Candles For Joni (poems) and the recently published C'est La Guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983.

I was a little nervous about asking Byron to curate a poetry mixtape because it seemed likely that he would choose pieces un-locatable outside a rare bookshop or the museum of the Ecstatic Yod, his warehouse space in Florence, MA. Lucky for us all, he took pity on me and did the scans himself. Thank You.

~~~~~~~~BYRON COLEY'S POETRY MIXTAPE~~~~~~~~
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elaine

i was daunted by too much to go through in too random an order. so i decided to look through some early issues of the wormwood review. and since that was such a bastion of dudes (bukowski, wantling, et al.), i figured i'd just pick out some female poets i liked. these are all from '63-67. wormwood issue # and year of printing noted with poet's name. these are all scans of the originals.

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1. Dolores Stewart, Wormwood Review 9, 1963

2. Dorothy Nyren, Wormwood Review 11, 1963

3. Holly Beye, Wormwood Review 14, 1964

4. Ellen Tifft, Wormwood Review 18, 1965

5. Darlene Fife, Wormwood Review 24, 1966

6. Ruth Chaban, Wormwood Review 25, 1967