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12/20/2025

Michael Hennessey is back to spread a little holiday cheer with a trio of poetic wise men — Ted Berrigan, Clement Clark Moore, and William Carlos Williams — offering their takes on the Christmas season in PennSound Podcast #82: Before and After Christmas

https://jacket2.org/podcasts/before-and-after-christmas

12/17/2025

https://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-george-mattingly/

An interview with George Mattingly about publishing William S. Burroughs

12/17/2025

https://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-george-mattingly/

An interview with George Mattingly about publishing William S. Burroughs “Port of Saints”

05/26/2025

Today on PennSound Daily we celebrate Memorial Day with Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan reading their iconic poem of the same name. Read more here:

https://pennsounddaily.blogspot.com/2025/05/celebrate-memorial-day-with-anne.html

01/15/2025

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07/30/2024

Goodbye to our friend Steve Toth, who has left this life. As he put it so perfectly over fifty years ago, “The coins of beauty are burning holes in the pockets of the universe.”

03/28/2024

Very sad news for the small press literary community.

"Small Press Distribution
1969 – 2024
It is with great sadness and a profound gratitude for the amazing literary community we have served that we must today announce that Small Press Distribution (SPD) is closing its doors effective immediately. We know this news is both sudden and devastating. "

Small Press Distribution (SPD) is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers. SPD's primary mission is to get the books of th...

02/23/2024

I was recently reading some of my father’s poems that were published in a collection called Putty.  And today I found a video on YouTube of Keith reading from this book in 1975. I happen to own the copy that he dedicated to his parents-in-law, Hannah and Lloyd Hansen, in 1971, the year we were li...

02/02/2024

Born on Feb 2, 1944 Keith Abbott (here with Persephone Abbott) California circa 1971-1972. Happy Birthday to Keith on what would have been his 80th birthday!

11/24/2023

Author Keith Abbott (Rhino Ritz, First Thing Coming) and printer Clifford Burke in San Francisco circa 1972.

08/10/2023

Finnish-American poet Anselm Hollo’s writing, once contained in forty modest volumes, finally arrives as an eminently enjoyable volume of unceasing wonders.