The outlaw bible of American poetry

Introduction / Alan Kaufman

Publisher's Note / Neil Ortenberg

Walt Whitman / Shut Not Your Doors

Prologue: Voices From Outlaw Heaven

Poem To The Freaks / Jack Micheline

Soul Eyes / Jim Brodey

Sitting on a Bench Near TSQuare / d.a. levy

In the Event of My Demise / Tupac Shakur

Mein Kampf / David Lerner

American Renegades

Sapphire

Wild Thing

Rabbit Man

1989 cont./Gorilla in the Midst #6

d.a. levy.

From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Part 3)

From Cleveland Undercovers

From Suburban Monastery Death Poem

The Bells of Cherokee Ponies

The suburban prophets (for R.D.D.)

Poem for Beverly

Reality Jew (1964)

From Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions

Diane diPrima

Revolutionary Letter #1

Revolutionary Letter #4

Revolutionary Letter #12

Revolutionary Letter #29

Revolutionary Letter #36

Tracking Bob Dylan / Peter Coyote.

Wanted Man / Bob Dylan

Woody Guthrie

Jesse James and His Boys

Jesus Christ

David Trinidad

In a Suburb of Thebes

Night and Fog (San Francisco)

The Shower Scene in Psycho

Bob Kaufman

Bagel Shop Jazz

I, Too, Know What I Am Not

Would You Wear My Eyes?

To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room

Jail Poems 1-34

Abomunist Manifesto

Short Speech to My Friends / Amiri Baraka

How to Proceed in the Arts / Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara.

On Jackson Pollock / Helen A. Harrison

(Untitled) / Jackson Pollock

Patti Smith

Ballad of a Bad Boy

Libya

Babelogue

High on Rebellion

Notebook

Notes for the Future: August 2, 1998, New York City

Notes, New York City, 1976

Ode to a Tijuana Toilet / James Dean

9th & Hennepin / Tom Waits

Jack Micheline

Beauty Is Everywhere Beaudelaire

Hiding Places

On Franz Kline.

Warren Finnerty Riding a Bicycle on 4th Avenue at Midnight Dreaming of Love and Wine and Franz Kline

Stone of the Heart

Blues Poem

One Arm

Poem to the Seventeenth of November 1962

Rambling Jack (a biography)

Chasing Kerouac's Shadow

On Henry Miller / Lawrence Durrell

Henry Miller

A Poem in Prose for My Venus

Advice to a Young Writer

The Shortest Novel of Them All / Norman Mailer

Sarah Menefee

From a letter to Jim Scully, December 1994.

From The Blood About the Heart

Jack Hirschman

Europe

The Recognition #2

NY, NY

Haiti

Buy, Always Consume (by Ferruccio Brugnaro, translated by Jack Hirschman)

Home

Act (by Roque Dalton, translated by Jack Hirschman)

An Essay on William Carlos Williams / Victor Hernandez Cruz

Harold Norse

We Bumped off Your Friend the Poet

I'm Not a Man

The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet

William Carlos Williams

Classic Frieze in a Garage.

Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness

At the Cafe Trieste

Dream of Frank O'Hara

Letter to Harold Norse, February 14th, 1957 / William Carlos Williams

Ten Outlaw Heroes / Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac

241st Chorus

149th Chorus

211th Chorus

Neal Cassady

Adventures in Auto-eroticism

Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High ...

Gregory Corso

Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror

Dear Villon

Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway.

Greenwich Village Suicide

C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization, Eat More Grease / Allen Ginsberg

Harold Norse

Letter to William Carlos Williams, February 23, 1957

Letter to William Carlos Williams, October 4, 1958

Letter to Harold Norse, August 26, 1960 / William Carlos Williams

South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982 / Wanda Coleman

Kathy Acker

From Devoured by Myths, an interview with Sylvere Lotringer

I Begin to Feel

William S. Burroughs.

The Evening News

"My Legs Senor."

Cold Lost Marbles

Amy Gerstler

A Non-Christian on Sunday

The Bride Goes Wild

Pedro Pietri

In His Own Words

Puerto Rican Obituary

Telephone Booth number 301

Telephone Booth number 507

Telephone Booth number 898 1/2

Telephone Booth number 63765057

Telephone Booth number 542

Telephone Booth number 32439

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker / Richard Brautigan

Dominique Lowell.

Bike Messenger Leading the People

Women Are Hungry

Manifest Destiny

An Oliver Stone Movie

From Song of the Open Road, parts 1 & 2 / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya

Ken DiMaggio

These Are My Words, My Neon, Siliconed, Carcinogenic Words. But This Is My Poem, My Poem About Elvis

Alan Kaufman

Bus

House of Strangers

Who Are We?

The Saddest Man on Earth.

On Reading Whitman's Song of Myself at One O'Clock in the Morning

Across the Mississippi

Let Us

David Lerner

The Crucifixion of Johnny Carson

Slamdancing to the Blues

Blasted Youth

Satan After Hours

Thief of Fire

The Night of the Living Tits

Why Rimbaud Went to Africa

Daniel Higgs

From The Exploding Parable

From Clay Man High House Head

From What I Have Learned About Boxing

From the Doomsday Bonnet, #16, #27

Slammers.

The Slam / Alan Kaufman

Marc Smith

Lucky Strike No Strike Back

The Stroke

Patricia Smith

Skinhead

Medusa

Lisa Martinovic

Debt of Blood

The Outlaw

Welcome To McDonalds / Reg E. Gaines

My Life as I Remember It / Bobby Miller

In the Hands of the Enemy / Vytautas Pliura

Jeffrey McDaniel

Lineage

Logic in the House of Sawed-off Telescopes

Siamese Opposites

Check One / Regie Cabico

Maggie Estep

I'm an Emotional Idiot.

Scab Maids on Speed

Jenny's Shirt

Like Lilly Like Wilson / Taylor Mali

William, I Giggled with Your Girlfriend / Hank Hyena

Project Princess / Tracie Morris

Imagining America / Justin Chin

Mandela / Evert Eden

It's a Good Day / Sini Anderson

Chicks Up Front / Sara Holbrook

The Scalping / Daniel Ferri

American Renegades

Eileen Myles

An American Poem

Holes

I Always Put My Pussy ...

Malcolm / Umar Bin Hassan.

Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette

First Date with the D.J.

For Brandon Teena

Sailor

Gil Scott-Heron

Evolution

From Tomorrow

Lenny Bruce

What Is a Jew?

How to Score

To Come

Africa / Richard Pryor

I Told You I Like Indians / Simon J. Ortiz

Hettie Jones

Subway Poem

In the Eye of the Beholder

Words

Two Horses / Joy Harjo

The Crippled Artist / Thomas McGrath

Jayne Cortez

Global Inequalities.

The Heavy Headed Dance

Barney Rosset and The Evergreen Review / Mike Topp

Barney Rosset

Ernest Hemingway

The Little Sons of Fidel

If my Enemy is A Clown, A Natural Born Clown / Ishmael Reed

Luis J. Rodriguez

To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger"

Rosalie Has Candles

Somebody Was Breaking Windows

Chota

Believe Me When I Say ...

Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park.

Don't Read That Poem!

It's Dumb to be a Member of a Dominant Species / Alice Notley

Kathe Izzo

For Seattle Boy Sacred Mantle

From I Am in Danger Nowhere in This World

Joe Brainard

Van Gogh

Sick Art

Art

Death

Ron Padgett

The Fortune Cookie Man

To Woody Woodpecker

Mike Topp

Rejected Mafia Nicknames

Disappointment

What Kind of Cars They Drove

Just Go Fuck Yourself

This Mind Is Buddah

Tozan's Pretzels.

We Have Chocolate Pudding

What Is the Beautiful? / Kenneth Patchen

The Scattering of the Ashes: The Burial of a Poet / Miguel Algarin

Miguel Pinero

Seekin's the Cause

Twice a Month Is Mother's Day

Poem

Miguel Pinero / David Henderson

A Mongo Affair / Miguel Algrin

John Bennet

Ode to My Mother

A Wish Come True

Much Ado About Nothing

Reasons to Drink

Molecular Conspiracy

Playing the Game

John Farris

Some Profession.

Brother

Imago

Note to Lorca

Sonia Sanchez

A Poem for Jesse

On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.

Father Daniel Berrigan

Prophecy

Children in the Shelter

Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh

Georgetown Poems (7)

Assata Shakur

Culture

Story

Psalm XVI / Hubert Selby Jr.

A chipped black hole / Bill Shields

In the Vicinity of a Grocer / Michael Gizzi

Lungs of Glass / Mike Golden

Wallace Berman

Untitled

Opos.

Boxed City

First & Last FearPoem

Untitled

Maura O'Connor

Gravity

Testimony

At the End

David Meltzer

From Beat Thing

From The Eyes, The Blood

Compensation Portrait / Joel Lewis

Steve Dalachinsky

Incomplete Directions

The Saxophone Factory

The Bones #2

James Dean

Meat Poets

The Mimeo Revolution / D.R. Wagner

A Bukowski Writing Lesson / Steve Richmond

A.D. Winans

Thinking About Then and Now

The System.

Poem for the Working Man and the Upper Mobile Yuppie

Poetry / William Wantling

David Roskos

Certain Prostitute

Poem for Paulie

Frozen Alley / Fritz Hamilton

Jim Chandler

Jailhouse Dreams #1

Dead Kid

No Rain Sunday Morning

Round Up / Ann Menebroker

From Machine Gun / Todd Moore

Fred Voss

A Threat

Termination

Joan Jobe Smith

Aboard the Bounty

Land of a Thousand Dances

Gerald Locklin

Beyond B.F. Skinner.

Paul Cezanne: Self Portrait, 1875

Paul Cezanne: The Large Bathers, 1906

On Marvin Malone and The Wormwood Review / Alan Kaufman

Ten Commandments for How to Successfully Publish a Little Magazine / Marvin Malone

American Renegades

Jim Morrison

The American Night

LAmerica

From Resume / Jennifer Blowdryer

Punk Rock Royalty / Iris Berry

Video Violence / Lou Reed

Montecito / Karen Finley

On 115 / Melvin Van Peebles.

City Madness / Ray Bremser

From Martin XIV / Jimmy Santiago Baca

Chopped Scooter / Cal (With Danny Lyon)

The Kid / Ai

Geometry / Ken Kesey

Song to Fidel (translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston) / Che Guevara

Leonard Cohen

What Is A Saint

Disguises

Turtle Blues / Janis Joplin

An Aging Radical Muses on His Conjugal Visits / Neil Ortenberg

Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog / Hunter S. Thompson

David Wojnarowicz.

Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul

Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee Shop

Man in Harbor Coffee Shop

Jim Carroll

8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain

Facts

Jukebox

The Ocean Below

With van Gogh

Rimbaud Sees the Dentist

School Prayer for the 80's / Abbie Hoffman

Tuli Kupferberg

The New America

Great Moments in the History of Capitalism

Where Is My Wandering Jew

Paint It Red (and Black)

The Babarians.

This Is the Babarians / David Lerner

Bruce Isaacson

Lost My Job & Wrote This Poem

Poetry in Orange County

In the Bookstore / Julia Vinograd

Kathleen Wood

Gregory

The Wino, The Junkie, and The Lord

I'm Not Mad / Vampyre Mike Kassel

The Real Me / Kathi Georges

I Was with Her Long Enough To Change Brands of Cigarettes / Bucky Sinister

Danny Shot

The Living Legend

On Long Shot

It's About the End of the World Stupid / Jack Wiler.

klipschutz

America

Dear Ezra

As for Us / David Gollub

(some) people have enough problems / Q.R. Hand

Mal de Tete / Bana Witt

American Renegades

Homage to Hersch / Allen Ginsberg

From High on the Beats / Herschel Silverman

Wail Bar Night / Andy Clausen

Mad Dogs of Trieste / Janine Pommy Vega

The Woman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor / Neeli Cherkovski

New York Guy in Berlin Night / Buddy Giovinazzo

Career Move / Penny Arcade.

Murdered in the Middle of the Dance / Steven J. Bernstein

Elsie John / Herbert Huncke

Path / Jeff Gordon

Just Say NO to Family Values / John Giorno

Ira Cohen

Electronic Multimedia Shamanism

Letter to Caliban

From Songs of the Revolution / Julian Beck

Leaflet for Soldiers / Judith Malina

Poem in the Manner of Paul Blackburn / Gerard Malanga

First Lady / Eve Wood

Henry J. Morro

Marilyn Monroe Is Dead

Barbie

Eric Brown.

You Fucking Cunt

Billie and Satchmo

Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont / Ed Dorn

Ball & Chain Record Store / Ellyn Maybe

Asteroid Poem #15 / FrancEyE

Pact / Anne Waldman

For Madeline Gleason / ruth weiss

Charles Plymell

Was Poe Afraid?

Cool Hobohemians 1950's Bennies from Heaven Poem

Displaced Poet / Paul Landry

The states / George Tsongas

In Memorian: Charles Mingus / Mikhail Horowitz.

For Frank / Kaye McDonough

From Bones / Marc Olmsted

Collaborating with Kerouac / David Amram

Hey, Jack! / Jan Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Returns to Lowell after 25 Years / Gerald Nicosia

The Door for Love and Death / Laurel Ann Bogen

Stuart Z. Perkoff

Untitled

The Suicide Room

Love Is the Silence

Untitled

Tony Scibella

Venice West

Untitled

Memoirs of a Nun of Fire / Philomene Long

Skull / Nelson Gary.

7th Sound for John Garfield / James Ryan Morris

Untitled / Rafael F.J. Alvarado

You'll Despise Me for This, But I'm Going to Say It Anyway / John Thomas

Venice / William J. Margolis

Frank T. Rios

Invocation

& sometimes it all hangs crooked

Ritual

The Carma Bums

The Carma Bums (Because This Is What America's All About) / S.A. Griffin

Cartoons Are My Life / Michael Bruner

S.A. Griffin

I Ate Fig Newtons Until I Puked

America Poem.

There Is a River

Sunset Strip Self-Improvement Affirmations / Doug Knott

No Mercy / Scott Wannberg

Mike Mollett

I Am the Bomb

The Word

American Renegades

The San Francisco Oracle: A Brief History / Allen Cohen

Michael McClure

The God I Worship Is a Lion

Jesus I Am Sick of the Spiritual Warfare!

After the Cries of the Birds Has Stopped / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Characteristically / Philip Whalen

In Transit / Lenore Kandel.

Seed Pods / Gary Snyder

Astromancy / Phillip Lamantia

Manifesto for Mutants / Ted Berk

My Life / Michael Lally

Downtown Woman / Julia Stein

Ten Commandments of a Street Poet / Tony Medina

Bob Flanagan

Bukowski Poem

Handcuffs

From Slave Sonnet #1

From Slave Sonnet #7

From Slave Sonnet #10

The Wedding of Everything

This Is the Land of Missed Opportunity / Steve Cannon

Suzanne Goes Down / Rebecca Fransway.

On Prison Poetry / Janine Pommy Vega

To Those / Mumia Abu-Jamal

Sing Sing Sits Up The River / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez

After All Those Years / Cecil Boatswain

Fugitive / Frank Fissette

My Room / Hannah Aquaah

Lap 15512 / Herby Ehinger

My Father / Mark "9-Box" Benyo

Trapped / Israel Fernandez

The Unbearables

Introduction to The Unbearables / Marvin Taylor

Archaeology / Bonnie Finberg

Dead Louis / Tsaurah Litzsky.

Factory Still Life / Ron Kolm

Kurt Cobain / Sparrow

God Is Here / Michael Carter

Moral / Merry Fortune

The Bus Driver's Secret Song / Max Blagg

Orgasm / Patricia Freed Ackerman

Sound Effects / Janice Eidus

Q/A / Jim Feast

Write a fucking poem / Mike Golden

Slave / David Huberman

Them / C.X. Hunter

The Professional / Joe Maynard

Cafe Ennui / Sharon Mesmer

Panoplistic Traditions in Memphis / Jill Rapaport.

Yardbirds of Vermont / Thaddeus Rutkowski

Manhattan / Susan Scutti

Thursday Night in the Park / Hal Sirowitz

Business District / Mike Topp

Spanish Girls / Claude Taylor

Mendel's Law / David L. Ulin

I Want the Nobel Prize / Albert Vitale

Teeth & Totemism / Carl Watson

Untitled / Diwan-i Hayan Kirmani, N. Pourjaundy, Peter Lamborn Wilson

Red Snappers / Carol Wierzbicki

Poets To Come / Walt Whitman.