"Poets & Writers: Tenth Birthday Party" Program (1980)

New York City:Poets & Writers, Inc. (program, anthology), 1980.
10" x 7.5", 64 pages, stapled wraps.

Poets & Writers: Tenth Birthday Party program, published by Poets & Writers (New York City) for a celebration at Roseland on 22 October 1980. A little more than half of this book is made up of contributions by various authors and poets, and the remainder is advertising. Patricia Ryan served as editorial consultant for this item.

William S. Burroughs appears in this program, contributing "Lee's script cut-up", one page. 

This copy was acquired from Jeff Maser, Bookseller (Berkeley, California, US).

Shoaf II.159.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• Introduction and schedule of events
• Benefactors
• Patrons
• Sponsors
• Board of Directors
• Jules Feiffer: "A dance to 1980" (comic)
• Patricia Ryan: introduction to contributions
• Margaret Atwood: "Hotel" (poetry)
• Louis Auchincloss: "The Court" (prose)
• Paul Bowles: "Notes for a Story Never Written" (prose)
• Rita Mae Brown: "Poetic Profundity" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski: "the Lady in Red" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Lee's script cut-up" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: "Blake / Blakean Haiku" (poetry)
• Richard Eberhart: "A Loon Call" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Composed for Poets & Writers" (poetry)
• Gail Godwin: "The Solitary Way" (poetry)
• John Hawkes: "Untitled Poem" (poetry)
• John Irving: "Sorrow Floats, from The Second Hotel New Hampshire" (prose)
• Galway Kinnell: "Crying" (poetry)
• Maxine Kumin: "By Heart" (poetry)
• Peter Matthiessen: untitled (prose)
• William Meredith: "Cheers for Poets & Writers!" (poetry)
• James Merrill: "Laser Majesty" (poetry)
• W. S. Merwin: "Predecessors in the City" (poetry)
• Arthur Miller: "Song from a Play by Arthur Miller" (lyric)
• Joyce Carol Oates: "Betrayal" (poetry)
• Cynthia Ozick: "Succession" (prose)
• Grace Paley: "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" (prose)
• Carl Rakosi: "Meditation" (poetry)
• Samuel Beckett: "38" (manuscript)
• Ishmael Reed: "Judas" (poetry)
• Judith Rossner: "Mimi and Vincent" (prose)
• Ntozake Shange: "the beach" (poetry)
• Louis Simpson: "Magritte Shaving" (poetry)
• William Jay Smith: "Graphic Art / Moral" (poetry)
• William Stafford: "Not Saying Anything" (poetry)
• John Updike: "Revelation" (poetry)
• Derek Walcott: "The Season of Phantasmal Peace" (poetry)
• John A. Williams: "Corion Jones" (poetry)
• Advertisements

External Links: 

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