Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2000. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 38 of Beat Scene Magazine is stocked with the sort of carefully researched and expertly crafted contributions that give weight and worth to this venerable quarterly. Included in this issue is an interview with Dave Haselwood of the Auerhahn Press (publisher of John Wieners, Michael McClure, and Philip Lamantia among others), another interview with West Coast poet A.D.... More about Beat Scene No. 38

Berkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have an... More about Some Poems/ Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry Since 1945

San Francisco, CA: Intersection Coffee Gallery/Amaranth Press, 1977. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (20"x13") announcing the exhibit "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977" which was held at the Intersection Coffee Gallery in San Francisco during March 22-May 5, 1977. Among the poets whose broadsides were exhibited were Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen... More about Broadside-Poster for "Poems on Paper: An Exhibit of Bay Area Broadsides 1955-1977"

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. "The six poets in this book represent the history of poetry in San Francisco, in America, in the world." (from "Golden Gate: Introduction") A uniquely important & fascinating compilation of interviews conducted by the late poet David Meltzer (1937 - 2016) of six of his fellow San Francisco Renaissance/ Beat Generation & beyond poets: Richard Brautigan, William Everson (a/k/a Brother Antoninus)... More about The San Francisco Poets

San Francisco, CA: Glide Memorial Church, Circa 1967. First Printing. Single Sheet. A broadside-poster (14"x20") announcing a "Poetry Fiesta" with "music and Dancers," featuring readings by poets Lenore Kandel, Margaret Randall, Marcus Ulewicz & Lew Welch, held at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on December 16, (circa) 1967. Welch (1926-1971?), among the primary poets of the Beat Generation & the San Francisco Renaissance, famously disappeared in 1971, a.... More about Broadside-Poster announcing Poetry Event at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

Albany, California: Sand Dollar, 1976. First Edition. Broadside. Published as a greeting by the Sand Dollar press, this poem by Lew Welch begins "First you must love your body." This is one sheet folded to make a small broadside. The poem was written in 1960 and discovered within the body of a letter Welch wrote to Joanne Kyger. Printed by Wesley Tanner and James Monday at the Arif Press. Very Fine. More about A Greeting for the Spring Solstice 1976

Coventry, England: the Beat Scene Press, 2010. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Number 26 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series published by Kevin Ring in the UK, this is a small compilation of letters written by the great American poet Lew Welch, who in 1971 departed from his friend Gary Snyder's California property into the surrounding wilderness & disappeared. Including a letter to Jack Kerouac written on January... More about Letters from Lew Welch