New York, NY, USA: Home Planet Publications, 1982. First Edition. Newspaper. Home Planet News was the brain-child of Donald Lev (1936-2018) and Enid Dame (1943-2003) who met at the New York Poets Cooperative in 1976 and became life partners in 1978. Their magazine was born out of necessity in 1979 following the collapse of Poets, a small literary tabloid that Lev had been working on with Michael Devlin. The name..... More

Pennsylvania, CA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1980. First Printing. Softcover. This commemorative tenth anniversary issue of the pioneering series of Beat Generation anthologies, edited & published by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight, features letters, drawings, prose & poems spanning the beginnings of the Beats through the end of the 1970s, when most of the original figures were still quite in their prime: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert..... More

California, PA: COSMEP, 1980. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (11"x17") announcing a COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) Conference at California State College in California, Pennsylvania during June 15-22, 1980. Among those noted to conduct readings & workshops were Allen Ginsberg, a primary founder of the Beat Generation; Arthur & Kit Knight, the pioneering Beat scholarship & publishing team that issued the important series of publications under..... More