Effits Undy

a lot of people ask Green Panda.

to them i say "fuck, its underground."

"I have consulted the tribal books, the unpublished journals/and the diaries of certain mental cases; it is remarkable that I/can proclaim a growing literature of intensity and consummate/pureness. It is clear to me that when the reader has digested/'The dog ate the cheese and the small boy in the yellow coat coughed' he has embarked on no mean adventure. Our more/advanced critics have interpreted American Letters from/several highly exciting angles; I read only yesterday a/magnificent statement concerning the mean diameter of the/ fourth vowel sound in the eleventh line of Greer's Annihilated/Cafe --this, of course, even with one reading alone, can cause/the most profound skeptic considerable pride in the creative/spirit applied sensitively, and sacrificingly, like a lamb/with nosebleed. The young writer may well thank his steadfast star/today. I have thought betweentimes of starting a School/modelled somewhat along the lines of a well-managed nursery:/certainly there is no lack of incentive.

Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the/murder of a sizeable number of people to save it."


--From Kenneth Patchen's 'THE HUNTED CITY' (Poems of Humor and Protest, City Lights number 3 1954).

Greg Bandy jazz drummer known, well, in Harlem as 'Mayor of Harlem' spent his first 60 years stationed in Cleve. now sightings of him in Uruguay and Japan or say, the Lincoln Center are frequenting. he claims to have instructed Wynton on the kid's arrival to NYC 'you won't get any place Jazz in this town wearing those floppy white hi-tops'. and has alot more than that to say. he calls using the brushes 'sand dancing', his beats and self-production of the CD Lightning in a Bottle led to a Grammy nom. he is moons over someplace not canny.

d.a. levy made books by hand by the hundred leaving his readers books full of poems and some as yet barely read ones that keep appearing...cult figure not so well respected by literati, he was very vizule almost avant spirituality drove he painted cranked folded and glued. he was mostly revolutionary, became the target of East Cleveland police, was persecuted, jailed and drew the attention and support of folks like The Fugs and Ed Sanders who rallied to free him. he died young, committed suicide, explaining he wanted to go to where it is real, or 'Israel'.

Lil Beck aka Greg O. writes songs and novels and has produced at least 8 CDs that i know of since 2005 from his death bed, in which he's been lying for years...(formerly?) of NeedleDrop Records.

Andy Anderson sax man played with em all from touring with Billie Holiday and Ben webster to letting Mingus as a kid sit in. Played a few weekly gigs sure as a whip to arrive early, into his early nineties, in Cleve. where we are missing him.

Rrt. Head a thinker's poet, known for his novel published in installments by rjs, aka god zero of Burton, OH on 'living in this', and collects and prints books of the poetry undrgnd, he sends his own poems lately via postcards to a wide readership of other poets not known from his home in Lewisburg, WV where he's run a bookshop with his wife the last several decades. to the delight of this panda his little old name makes the Lewisberg wiki entry, as a poet/editing/figure of culture.



Jim Lang was with Coach House at its inception, making books and messing with the idea of what a book is or can or ought to should be. Worked on Coventry Reader in the 80s and published 2o some issues of split whiskey from late nineties to the oughts, which he shipped about the states and Canada for free while he manned a desk at a corporate hospital. Poet, potter photographer and wiseacre curmudgeon, he has been turning people off for an age--turned 70 in 2010. keeps on.

rjs poet/pub/editorialist

Tom Kryss poet/pub/artist

Malcomb Holcomb mtn. music (jes wants something "close enough to keep/a far cry from here").

James Coulter painter/storyteller

kon pet moon made this film check the excerpt and then buy a copy soon.

Steven B. Smith poet/archivist/artist/dsignr

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