Detroit, MI: Detroit Free Press, 1965. First Edition. Single Sheets. "A bearded Wayne State University student arrested with six others in a narcotics raid at his apartment, told police Tuesday he sees nothing wrong with smoking marijuana." Thus begins this article in the Detroit Free Press edition of August 18, 1965 written by Staff Writer Robert Cotter, concerning an incident the previous day. The "Bearded WSU student" was John Sinclair..... More

Detroit, MI: Robin Eichele, 1965. First Edition. “O I would like to break my teeth / by means of expressing a radiator! / I say I must dent that which gives heat! / Dent! regardless the tradition of my mouth. / I would like to drive a car / but I must drive it! / Look–there must be a firing squad, yes, / but why a wolf? / I mean..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, c.1965. First Editions. Single Sheets. "The Artists' Workshop Society will open its new gallery April 14 with a show by Detroit artist Stephen Ligosky. The Workshop Gallery, like the other activities of the Society, will be a cooperative operated by artists of the workshop. Co-directors of the Gallery are Robin Eichele, George Tysh, and Martine Allgire. these directors will be coordinating the operations of the..... More

Oak Park, MI: Book Beat, 2007. Limited Facsimile Edition Thus. Stapled Sheets. "I've wanted to be able to write these poems for a long time, but only now has the specific energy for these poems been made available to me- and, as at many times in the past, through the agency of John Coltrane's music." (first paragraph, "A Note" preceding poems, unpaginated) A collection of poems by John Sinclair (1941-2024)..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “John Sinclair and Robin Eichele will read from their published and unpublished work. Both poets are well known to Detroit audiences through their readings and publications here. Sinclair read his work at the Berkeley Poetry Conference this summer at the invitation of Richard Baker, Director of the Conference, as did Eichele. Both poets read in groups of young poets from..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Today’s program marks our first six months of operation. We celebrate by continuing our policy of presenting Detroit’s best jazz, poetry, & graphics, free, to people of the Workshop community. Our weekly programs take place here at the Artists’ Workshop each Sunday afternoon at 3:00 P.M." (first paragraph) The twenty-fifth flyer-announcement produced by John Sinclair & Robin Eichele’s Detroit Artists’..... More

Detroit, MI: WSU Artists' Society, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Single Sheet. "It is our belief that jazz musical forms must be extended to meet an entirely new set of artistic, social, cultural, and economic circumstances....The artist presumes to judge life, to assess it for all men, to accept it, to reject it. Both as men and artists in a complex, oftentimes grievously unjust world we accept the challenge this..... More

Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. "FUCK THE GAMES. No more games, no more hiding the dope in the coffee can, or in the drawer under the underwear. No more putting your dope in your crotch to go over to your girl's house. No more. No more. It's time to bring dope out in the open, no more musty cellars or sacred rooftops. SMOKE DOPE EVERYWHERE."..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “This Sunday’s program features music by the Detroit Contemporary 4 (Charles Moore, cornet; Ron English, guitar; John Dana, bass; & Danny Spencer, drums), with special guest Ronnie Johnson, drums, who will take part in some of Charles Moore’s experiments for 2 drummers.” (first paragraph) The twenty-fourth flyer-announcement produced by John Sinclair & Robin Eichele’s Detroit Artists’ Workshop relating to their..... More

Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “The Artists’ Worksheet is printed weekly by the Artists’ Workshop Press. 1252 West Forest, Detroit 48201, & is distributed locally & by mailing list. The Worksheet serves as a public “platform” for the work-in-progress, working drafts, & finished drafts of Detroit poets & writers. Copies can be obtained at the Artists’ Workshop, either thru the week or at the Sunday afternoon..... More

Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Printing. Single Sheet. “Music this week is again by the Workshop’s houseband, the Pierre Rochon/Bob McDonald Quintet, with trombonist Patrick LaNier, bassist Frank Vojcek, & drummer Ronald Johnson. Pierre is the trumpeter, Bob plays piano. The Detroit Contemporary 5, the Workshop’s first houseband, will play the 2nd set of the afternoon, after the readings. The group comprises Charles Moore, cornet; Brent Majors, saxophone; Hach..... More

Detroit, MI: The Artists' Workshop Press, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Your Devoted Curators at Third Mind Books must cue the trumpets and unfurl the red carpet in velvet totality for this copy of “This Is Our Music,” the debut work of 1965 by John Sinclair (b. 1941), the artist-poet-publisher-icon extraordinaire of the Mimeograph Revolution and 1960s counterculture. The work, as Sinclair himself writes in the epigraph, is dedicated “to..... More

Detroit, MI: The Artists' Workshop Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Stapled Sheets. “The beautiful thing about the whole “movement” here in Detroit is that we all started equally – we were quite literally “nowhere,” and we have somehow been able to make a very precise place for ourselves in this city, solely, through our own efforts, making all the “mistakes” we had to make, taking all the chances we didn’t..... More