Detroit, MI: Robin Eichele, c. 1965. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. A photograph (measuring appx. 11” x 8.5” incl. margin) featuring noted Detroit poet & playwright, Bill Harris (b. 1945), along with two presently unidentified figures from the Detroit Artists’ Workshop c. 1964-1965. The photographer behind this image is none other than Robin Eichele (b. 1941), the American poet and Mimeograph Revolutionary who co-founded the Detroit Artists’ Workshop in November 1964..... More

N/P: Robin Eichele, 1965. Original Photograph. Single Sheet. “Ted Nugent is an asshole. He always was." (quote, John Sinclair). An original black & white photographic print (measuring appx. 11" x 8.5" incl. margin) titled "Motorcycle Studies" featuring John Sinclair (1941-2024) the American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan and Charles Moore (1951-2024), the American poet, flugelhornist, and doctor of ethnomusicology, with a Triumph Cafe Rider. Together, Sinclair and..... 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 “John Sinclair and Robin Eichele will read from their published and unpublished work.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: Detroit Artists Workshop, 1965. First Edition. Single Sheet. Original black & white photographic print (measuring approx. 11” x 8” including margins) featuring Ron English (b. 1941), jazz guitarist with roots wide and deep in blues, Broadway, bebop, avant-garde, funk, Motown and gospel on the right, and an unknown individual (possibly John Dana (1941-2018), bassist of the Detroit Contemporary 5 but it's hard to be sure) on the left..... 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: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "The work is the thing. The measure of a man. All there is to look at, count up, judge him by. His work. The words are no mark, are noise. Talk is cheap, &c, but let's see the work, &c. The 'solid artifact,' what draws the mind. (The word as act only. As prophecy. As poem, is act/shun, choice of..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Artists' Workshop, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I know the particulars of the following story well, because one of the men (Smith) was shingling a house for me in the town of Pittsburgh, the evening before he was murdered by Mamachtaga, and for which murder, and some others, this Indian was tried. Smith had borrowed a blanket off me, saying that he was about to cross the..... More