P O E T S     ON THE LINE
a continuing anthology

Founded by Andrew Gettler & Linda Lerner

NO. 9 & 10         T H E  M I L L E N N I U M  I S S U E

Edited by Linda Lerner


T A B L E   O F   C O N T E N T S
 i. EDITORIAL
ii. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PHILLIP LEVINE                                                                                      [Down]
 1. After Leviticus
 2. Flowering Midnight

W. D. EHRHART
 3. The Sergeant
 4. Clichés Become Clichés Because They're True

LYNNE SAVITT
 5. Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
 6. The Search For Romance

ROBERT PETERS
 7. The Child In The Burnt House
 8. The Hypnotized Sheep

LONNIE SHERMAN                                                                                 [Down]   [Up]
 9. The Darkness Of Death Again
10. Nadine From Nowhere
11. Sleeping
12. from The Wisdom Of Night Spiders

DAVID ROSKOS
13. Poem For Paulie
14. Sick
15. An Untitled Poem

CATFISH MCDARIS
16. Kokopelli
17. No Longer Here

AMY HOLMAN
18. Denial

TONY MOFFEIT                                                                                     [Down]   [Up]
19. Blues For Jack Micheline

CHARLES PLYMELL
20. November 3, 1998 Dark Afternoon

HERSCHEL SILVERMAN
21. St. John The Divine Cathedral Doings For Allen Ginsberg

JULIA VINOGRAD
22. Ginsberg
23. Street Musician

ANDY CLAUSEN
24. The Night I Heard Kerouac Died

R. D. ARMSTRONG
25. Eyes Like Mingus

JANINE POMMY VEGA                                                                             [Down]   [Up]
26. To You On The Other Side of This

A. D. WINANS
27. Folsom Prison

DONALD LEV
28. More Deli Than Dada

JEFFREY J. GAUMOND
29. Profound
30. Somewhere, Someplace, In Space and Time

TODD MOORE
31. First
32. The Only Time

JOYCE METZGER                                                                                      [Down]   [Up]
33. Years Glide By

KELL ROBERTSON
34. Just One Mountain Away
35. At War With A Dull Chainsaw

PATRICIA FAREWELL
36. The Return

ANTLER
37. Snowing Inside Me
38. Workers Should Be Happy

TAD RICHARDS                                                                                           [Down]   [Up]
39. Patricia

MAGGIE JAFFE
40. Can't Happen Here
41. For Lewis B. Puller, Jr.

VICTOR H. BAUSCH
42. What They Wanted
43. Buddy System

MARTY MATZ                                                                                             [Down]   [Up]
44. Time Waits
45. In Search of Paitti

SCOTT HARRISON     OWNER OF THE ABANDONED PLANET BOOK STORE     SAN FRANCISCO
46. Jack Micheline and His Painted Poem Room, AN ESSAY.

1. Who cares if Jack Kerouac . . .   2. Jack went on back to his painted poem room . . .   3. He was so proud of his grand daughter . . .   4. He went to New York for a Beat conference . . .   5. He said "Be well," as he went out the front door that night . . .   6. Hundreds of people came . . .   7. The room was filled with the "Who's Who" of San Francisco alternative press . . . John Bryan . . . Johnny Brewton . . . Allen Cohen . . . A. D. Winans . . .   8. . . . the speakers began paying tribute: Harold Norse, Neeli Cherkovski, Michael McClure, Jack Hirschman . . .   9. In the audience was Eileen Kaufman, widow of Bob Kaufman . . .   10. George Tirado, the big man, got up on the stage . . .   11. Ken Kesey and Lawrence Ferlinghetti . . .
JACK MICHELINE         PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCOTT HARRISON
47. Photographs: [  1   |   2   |   3  ]

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