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Our Covers Album

A selection of covers from the first 50 years

Scan of the cover of Poetry Project Newsletter #2. Primarily typographic, printed via mimeograph.
#2 (January 1973), designed by Ron Padgett
Scan of the cover of Poetry Project Newsletter #92. The central visual is a pen drawing by George Schneeman, a rather abstract take on people burning in hell that also incorporates Alice Notley's famous poem: "All my life / since I was ten, / I've been waiting / to be in / this hell here / with you; / all I've ever / wanted and / still do."
#92 (October 1982), artwork by Alice Notley and George Schneeman
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #100. This issue commemorates the death of Ted Berrigan earlier that year. The central visual is a b/w photograph of Berrigan smiling, leaning against a brick wall.
#100 (October 1983), photograph by LaVerne Harrell Clark
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #. The central visual is a near square b/w photograph of Kathy Acker, looking enigmatically into the camera.
#113 (April 1985), photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #124. The cover dominated by an excerpt of the opera "X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X" by Thulani Davis.
#124 (January 1987), text by Thulani Davis
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #134. The central visual is a drawing of cattails on the coast on a cloudy day.
#134 (October/November 1989), art by Rochelle Kraut
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #149. The central visual is a photograph of two people with long black hair, standing on a street corner, looking away from the camera and into the street.
#149 (April/May 1993), photograph by Rudy Burckhardt
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #172. The central visual is a collage a group of six paintings of female-presenting figures, most in clothes, though one is nude. The faces are indistinct, but the clothing, skin tones, and hair styles suggest specific persons.
#172 (December/January, 1998/1999), art by Isabelle Pelissier
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #235. The central visual is a rather demented ink drawing of someone with curly hair and a lot of make-up, laying back with their head in their hands. They're wearing some kind of ornately ruffled and printed blouse.
#235 (April/May 2013), art by Elisabeth Kley
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #245. The central visual is a photograph of a concrete bench graffitied with the phrase "Fui crime... serei poesia," Portueguese for "I was crime... I will be poetry."
#245 (Dec/Jan, 2015/2016), “I was crime... I will be poetry” (Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), photo by Kaia Sand
Scan of Poetry Project Newsletter #262. The central visual is a poster design in etches of red, green, and black that reads "Are we prepared to declare an enemy?" The image also quotes Tongo Eisen-Martin: "If it has a prison, it is a prison, not a city."
#262 (Fall 2020), art by Shiva Addanki

#270 – Fall 2022

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