{"id":1210,"date":"2010-10-14T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:15:17","slug":"little-magazines-of-the-mimeo-revolution-poetry-exhibition-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/10\/14\/little-magazines-of-the-mimeo-revolution-poetry-exhibition-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Magazines of the Mimeo Revolution: Poetry, Exhibition, Film!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/beatitude_10_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1214\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/beatitude_10_cover.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/10\/beatitude_10_cover.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/10\/beatitude_10_cover-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/10\/beatitude_10_cover-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/blue_suede_shoes_1_cover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before the photocopier, desktop computers, and blogs, the mimeograph\u00a0machine put inexpensive printing technology in the hands of poets and artists.\u00a0 The Mimeo\u00a0Revolution of the late 1950s brought about an explosion of DIY printing and independent literary magazines.\u00a0 Although many of the mimeo\u00a0magazines and small presses were short-lived, poetry superstars emerged from the mimeographed pages, including poet and little mag publisher, Ed Sanders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The revolution was spawned by the youthful, counterculture poet-publisher, cranking out 100 copies of an outlandishly titled magazine on cheap paper.\u00a0 The image of the iconoclastic and self-motivated poet, breaking the chain of convention, heading out for the territories with a sack full of magazines and making it new, formed and solidified in our common imagination as a direct result of the mimeo\u00a0explosion. (M. Basinski from <em>An Author Index to Little Magazines of the Mimeograph Revolution<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Join us for an afternoon as we explore the Mimeo Revolution and celebrate the poets and presses that made it flourish.\u00a0 Events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 26, 2010, 3:00pm to 6:00pm, Dodd Research Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Program:<\/p>\n<p>3:00pm Gallery Talk\u00a0<em>Little Magazines in the Archives<\/em>\u00a0with Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary Collections (McDonald Reading Room)<\/p>\n<p>3:45pm Unveiling of special re-issue of the 1968 limited edition book <em>Krulik\u00a0Ksiega or Book of Rabbits<\/em>\u00a0by Cleveland poet Tom Kryss<\/p>\n<p>4:00pm Poetry reading with Ed Sanders! (Konover Auditorium)<\/p>\n<p>4:45pm Film showing <em>If I Scratch, I Write: d.a. levy\u00a0and the Mimeograph Revolution<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6:00pm Reception with refreshments<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact melissa.watterworth@uconn.edu<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the photocopier, desktop computers, and blogs, the mimeograph\u00a0machine put inexpensive printing technology in the hands of poets and artists.\u00a0 The Mimeo\u00a0Revolution of the late 1950s brought about an explosion of DIY printing and independent literary magazines.\u00a0 Although many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/10\/14\/little-magazines-of-the-mimeo-revolution-poetry-exhibition-film\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-jw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}