Kulchur

Kulchur 1 (View complete issue)
(Spring 1960)
Editor Marc Schleifer; Managing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Leroi Jones, Martin Williams, Donald Phelps. Cover by Stephen Solosy. Selected Contributors: William Burroughs (“The Conspiracy”); Allen Ginsberg (“Paterson”; Diane Di Prima (“Whims”); Charles Olson (“Pieces of Time”; Basil King (“Drawings”); Paul Bowles (“Ketema Taza”).

Kulchur 2
(1960)
Editor Marc Schleifer; Managing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Leroi Jones, Martin Williams, Donald Phelps. Cover Photograph by Charles Rotmil. Selected contributors Joel Oppenheimer (“A View of the Trinity”); Paul Bowles (“The Ball at Sidi Hosni”); Paul Goodman (“The Fate of Dr. Reich’s Books”); Charles Olson (“Postscript to Proprioception & Logography”); Gregory Corso (“Two Weather Vanes”); Diane Di Prima (“Notes Towards Something”); Leroi Jones (“Cuba Libre”).

Kulchur 3
(1961)
Editor Marc Schleifer; Poetry Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Contributing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima, A.B. Spellman; Leroi Jones, Martin Williams, Donald Phelps. Cover photograph by Leroy McLucas. Selected contributors Jack Kerouac (“Dave”); Charles Olson (“Bridge-Work); William Burroughs (“In Search of Yage”); Gary Snyder (“The Ship in Yokohama”); Tuli Kupferberg (“Death & Love”); Allen Ginsberg (“Breughel-Triumph of Death”); Paul Bowles (“Kif”); Herbert Huncke (“Elsie”).

Kulchur 4
(1961)
President Lita Hornick; Editor Marc Schleifer; Guest Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Contributing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Leroi Jones, Donald Phelps. Cover photgraph of Inspector Maigret (William Burroughs) and Sam Spade (Jack Kerouac). Selected Contributors: Osmond Beckwith (“The Oddness of Oz”); Edward Dorn (“What I See in the Maximus Poems I”); Leroi Jones (“African Slaves/American Slaves: Music Of”); Robert Duncan (“Ideas of the Meaning of Form”); Louis Zukofsky (“Modern Times”).

Kulchur 5
(Spring 1962)
President Lita Hornick; Editor on leave of absence Marc Schleifer; Guest Editor Joel Oppenheimer; Poetry Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Jazz Editor Leroi Jones; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman. Cover photograph by Arthur Freed. Selected contributions Louis Zukofsky (“Little Baron Snorck”); Charles Olson (“the hinges of civilization to be put back on the door”); Kenneth Koch (“Canto”); Leroi Jones (“Tokenism: 300 Years for 5 cents”); Louis and Celia Zukofsky (“Translating Catullus”); A.B. Spellman (“Next to Last Generation of Blues Singers”); Frank O’Hara (“Art Chronicle”).

Kulchur 6
(Summer 1962)
Editor on leave of absence Marc Schleifer; Managing Editor Lita Hornick; Poetry Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Donald Phelps. Cover Photography of Jack Gilbert’s The Apple at the Living Theatre. Denise Levertov (“An English Event”); Julian Beck (“Broadway and Living Theatre Dynamic”); Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Creeley (“An Exchange”); Robert Kelly (“Staccato for Tarots: I); Frank O’Hara (Art Chronicle); Louis Zukofsky (“Arise, Arise”).

Kulchur 7
(Autumn 1962)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Book Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Film Editor Bill Berkson; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Donald Phelps. Cover art Franz Kline. Contributions: Edward Dorn (“Notes More or Less Relevant to Burroughs and Trocchi”); Louis Zukofsky (“Five Statements for Poetry”); Leroi Jones (“Introducing Bobby Bradford”); Fielding Dawson (“A Summer to Remember”).

Kulchur 8
(Winter 1962)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Book Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Film Editor Bill Berkson; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Donald Phelps. Cover photograph by Leroy McLucas. Contributors: Michael McClure (“Phi Upsilon Kappa”); Fielding Dawson (“Come September”); Denise Levertov (“Letters to the Editor”); Gilbert Sorrentino (“Kitsch into Art: The New Realism”).

Kulchur 9
(Spring 1963)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Book Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Film Editor Bill Berkson; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Donald Phelps. Cover Drawing Larry Rivers. Contributors: Leroi Jones (“The Toliet”); Diane Di Prima (“Murder Cake”; Barbara Guest (“The Dark Muse”); Kenward Elmslie (“The Aleutians”).

Kulchur 10
(Summer 1963)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Book Editor Gilbert Sorrentino; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Film Editor Bill Berkson; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Diane Di Prima; A.B. Spellman, Donald Phelps. Cover Photograph: Balanchine Choreographing Contributions: George Oppen (“The Mind’s Own Place”); Paul Blackburn (“The Grinding Down”); Edwin Denby (“Balanchine Choreographing”); Louis Zukofsky (“A Statement for Poetry (1950)”); Larry Eigner (“Walls Dispose a City”); Gilbert Sorrentino (“Remembrances of Bop in New York 1945-1950).

Kulchur 11
(Autumn 1963)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Film Editor Bill Berkson; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino; A.B. Spellman. Contributions: W.S. Merwin (“A New Right Arm”); Robert Duncan (“Love”); Edward Dorn (“The New Frontier”); Louis Zukofsky (“Ezra Pound”); Walter Lowenfels (“Bob Brown”); Joseph LeSueur (“Our First Theature of Cruelty”).

Kulchur 12
(Winter 1963)
Managing editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino; A.B. Spellman, Bill Berkson. Contributions: Ed Dorn (“Clay”); Leroi Jones (“Expressive Language,” “Exaugural Address: For Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy who has had to eat too much shit”); Rights Some Personal Reactions.

Kulchur 13
(Spring 1964)
Editor Lita Hornick; Music Editor Leroi Jones; Art Editor Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur Theatre Editor; Contributing Editors: Charles Olson, Gilbert Sorrentino; A.B. Spellman, Bill Berkson. Cover: Andy Warhol’s The Kiss. Contributions: Allen Ginsberg (“The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express July 18, 1963”); Gilbert Sorrentino (“The Art of Hubert Selby”); Richard Brautigan (“The Post Office of Eastern Oregon”); Pauline Kael (“Film Review”); Warren Tallman (“Robert Creeley’s Portrait of the Artist”).

Kulchur 14
(Summer 1964)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editors Leroi Jones; Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur; Gilbert Sorrentino; A.B. Spellman, Bill Berkson. Cover by Joe Brainard. Contributions: Robert Creeley (“A Note on Louis Zukofsky”); Mack Thomas (“The Fable of Orby Dobbs”); Michael McClure (“Reason”); Walter Lowenfels (“Michael Fraenkel”); Clayton Eshleman (“from the Poemas Humanos of Cesar Vallejo”).

Kulchur 15
(Autumn 1964)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editors Leroi Jones; Frank O’Hara; Joseph LeSueur; Gilbert Sorrentino. Cover by Robert Rauschenberg. Contributions: Donatella Manganotti (“The Final Fix”); Nicolas Calas (“Robert Rauschenberg”); George Bowering (“The New American Prosody”); Walter Lowenfels (“Last Conversation with Fraenkel”).

Kulchur 16
(Winter 1964)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editor Leroi Jones. Cover by Al Held. Contributions: Interview with Andy Warhol by Gerard Malanga; Leroi Jones (“Two Poems”); Soren Agenoux (“The Gruesome Operative Contradiction Function in Civilized Living from 1923 to 1963”); Jack Hirschman (“Constellations”); Book Review by Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Rochelle Owens, Gilbert Sorrentino.

Kulchur 17
(Spring 1965)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editor Leroi Jones. Cover by Robert Indiana. Contributions: Carl Belz (“Pop Art, New Humanism and Death”); Ron Padgett (“Sound and Poetry”); Leroi Jones (“Corregidor”); Book Review by Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Irby, George Bowering et al.

Kulchur 18
(Summer 1965)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editor Leroi Jones. Cover photograph of Knox Martin. Contributions: Joe Brainard (“Sunday, July the 30th, 1964”); Armand Schwerner (“Wallace Stevens: The Movements within the Rock”); Book Reviews by Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, John Sinclair, Margaret Randall et al.

Kulchur 19
(Autumn 1965)
Editor Lita Hornick; Contributing Editor Leroi Jones. Cover by James Mitchell. Contributions: Ron Padgett (“Bill”); Ted Berrigan (“A Boke”); Dick Gallup (“Two Scenes from The Bingo”); Ron Padgett (“Pere Ubu’s Alphabet”); Book Reviews: Aram Saroyan, Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Clatyon Eshleman et al.

Kulchur 20
(Winter 1965)
Editor Lita Hornick. Cover Photograph of James Waring. Ted Berrigan (“Sonnets”); Ted Berrigan & Ron Padgett (“Big Travel Dialogues”); Ron Padgett & Joe Brainard (“Go Lovely Rose”); Gerard Malanga (Interview with James Waring); Armand Schwerner (“Prologue in Six Parts”): Book Reviews: Ted Berrigan, Thomas Clark, David Meltzer, Fielding Dawson et al.