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Hannah, thank you for keeping this forum up and running for 15 years. It's been an amazing experience. There's nothing else like it on the planet, and I feel lucky to have been a part of it. I've been reading many posts I missed and rereading old favorites since you announced your plan to close...

Leo Mailman died of ALS in 1991.

Down near the bottom of the article, Alvin mentions some of my literary associates from Long Beach in the 1970s: Gerald Locklin, Eliot Fried (his name is misspelled in the article), Richard Lee, Bob Flanagan. I knew Dave and hung out with the same crowd of poets, but it's not like we were tight...

Sorry to hear this. She was pretty damned cool.

Oops, make that "Small Press Poets" in the thread title.

https://pleasekillme.com/dave-alvin-blasters/

Thanks, but I doubt I would get a reply. I've been told he has serious health issues and is unable to correspond.

That makes sense. So far, this alleged reading story is merely hearsay. I didn't realize you will be willing to amend the Timeline after the forum shuts down. If I find any proof, I'll contact you about it. Thanks.

Okay, I heard back from Joan Jobe Smith (a poet very active in Long Beach circa 1974 (I'll check that date) to present, founder and co-editor of Pearl magazine). She has a phenomenal memory, and everything she tells me about the good old days checks out. She says Long Beach poet/small press...

I'm waiting for more info from Joan Jobe Smith but it looks like the reading was at the Nifty Theater, 307 Main St., Huntington Beach, in 1969. Gerald Locklin talks about colleagues of his at CSULB who had wanted to get in touch with Bukowski to do a reading at the Nifty Theater, on page 1 of...

Poet Joan Jobe Smith just told me about an early Bukowski reading that's not on the Timeline. She says CSULB professor and poet Elliot Fried was the first person at Cal State Long Beach to pay Bukowski money to do a reading. It was in Huntington Beach at a little theatre in 1970 or 1969. I'll...

Back in the day, I stuck dozens of GPP broadsides into lit books in my local city library, including about 35 Bukowski books. A year ago that library dumped a third of their entire book collection, for no good reason. Now they have only three Bukowski books remaining. Where the Bukowski books...

This new book of poems is an Amazon print-on-demand trade paperback -- my apologies if the Amazon connection disqualifies it as a small press book. It was edited, illustrated, and published by me under the imprint of Rumba Train Press, being the latest of a number of poetry collections from the...

This thread couldn't have happened prior to 2016. It's a microcosm of the current cultural insanity.

This is my favorite thread on the forum. Wonder research. Thanks to all involved.