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Phantasm Magazine Tables of Contents

Phantasm, vols. 1, no. 1– vol. 5, no. 3
Independent literary journal of original poetry, fiction, artwork, articles, features, photos, commentary, book reviews, interviews, and announcements.

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Volume 1, No. 1, 1976

Volume 1, No. 2, 1976

Volume 1, No. 3, 1976

Volume 1, No. 4, 1976

Volume 1, No. 5, 1976

Volume 1, No. 6, 1976

Volume 2, No. 1, 1977

Volume 2, No. 2, 1977

Volume 2, No. 3, 1977

Volume 2, No. 4, 1977

Volume 2, No. 5, 1977

Volume 2, No. 6, 1977

Volume 3, No. 1, 1978

Volume 3, No. 2, 1978

Volume 3, No. 3, 1978

Volume 3, No. 4, 1978

Volume 3, No. 5, 1978

Volume 3, No. 6, 1978

Volume 4, No. 1, 1979

Volume 4, No. 2, 1979

Volume 4, No. 3, 1979

Volume 4, No. 4, 1979

Volume 4, No. 5, 1979

Volume 4, No. 6, 1979

Volume 5, No. 1, 1980

Volume 5, No. 2, 1980

Volume 5, No. 3, 1980

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 1, 1976

Poetry

James Baldwin
Cold morning sunshine …
One would hardly know, …
On the white cement, …

Kevin James Campbell
Thursday Morning
Sitting Together Briefly
At the Bar

Mona Ceniceros
Raising the Consciousness
Behind the Screen of Oz

Bill Collins
Summer Stock
Twenty-six Weeping Willows
Squeezing your buttocks in my hands …
You rubberstamp your way to fame …
My Thirtieth Beginning

Steve Deaton
Weaving
Television Hangover
Piano Keys
Tear

K. Barton Dellinger
You visited me …

Michele P. Diamond
The big birds are beautiful today …
Today I met an interesting person …
My eyes watch you …
I touched you today

Tom Evans
Weather
Cold

Stormy Hubbard
A Poet Talks to Moonlit Water
Wonder in Alice-Land
Lowlands and Highlands of India

Larry S. Jackson
Move Over
Home of the Prey
Listen
Resorting

Gregory A. Johnson
Circles
Changes
Earth and Fire

 George Keithley
Why do I want to apologize …
As If at Play
Rock River on Rise; Flooding Feared

Timothy J. Mayer
People
Lines
Lover
Friend
Climate
Ambush

Christine Parker
Dyersville

Cena Golder Richeson
Sir Walter Raleigh Overheard
Two in a Puddle
Gravity
To You, Lonely People

Meredith Vanous
After rain …
Nine hundred …
I watched the car lights fade …
Magpies came …

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Artwork

Mike Halldorson

Steve Ladd

Wendy Nuding

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Editorial

Copyrights Protect Your Work by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher

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Announcements

1 announcement of new column

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Phantasm, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1976

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 2, 1976

Poetry

Doug Bussey
Nature's Departed Child

Kevin Campbell
On the Side of My Life
Poem for Richard Nixon
The Morning in Abstract

Mona Ceniceros
I could gobble you up …
Don't you see I can't be her? …
Ladies, …

William Collins
Diologue
With Apologies to Patty

Charles London Cyndian
The First Collection
28th Annual San Francisco Arts Festival

Steve Deaton
Bieres de la Meuse

Outside

Michele P. Diamond
I am absurd in my simplicity …

Susan Fuhr
Soft …
Coastal mist descends …
Soft summer showers …

Phillip Hemenway
Earthquake
One Explanation

Stormy Hubbard
"Where Is Forever?"
August 28/29, 1954: A Night on Carter's Mountain
Who Is the Great Magician?

Karen Jackson
CirclingCirclingCirclingCirclingCirclingCirclingCircling

Larry S. Jackson
It's always been on the back …
No dough …
The Symphony

Ken Jordan
Headin' East on Highway 50
This Earth goes round and round …
Ceasar swept away his foes …

J. T. Ledbetter
Convalarium II

Joel Leonard
Opus 1
Entertainment
Communication
Clouds?
Faculty Club Lunch: Soup du jour

Michael Lopes
The Tax Man
To the Reader
A Gift

Jerry Martini
Geese

Sally's House

Timothy J. Mayer
Something Laughing
Hey You!

Wendy Nuding
I thought today would be new. …

Louis Reile
"Reality"
"Congruence"

E. C. Stone
Showers

Rick Yurman
Vertical Hold
They came back from the woods …

Alison Zier
Hitler Youth

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Articles

Tips on Better Readings by Edward Kulkosky. Five suggestions for giving better poetry readings from a poet and an organizer of readings in New York City.

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Artwork

Bill Donohue

Mike Halldorson

Karen Jackson

Steve Ladd

Wendy Nuding

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Editorial

The Halo and Vality Effect by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher

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Announcements

1 announcement of announcements wanted

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Phantasm, vol. 1, no. 2, 1976

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 3, 1976

Poetry

Michael C. Andrews
The Life of the Sea
Tattoo

Andy Blomeyer
Just Be You
If I Could Look Through You

Tomas Calderon
smell the stench of decaying …

Kevin Campbell
Driving Home (in the future)
The Comic

Carmella Canciamilla
After you leave …
It has all to do …
Full Circle
Hello my friend of past days, …

Mona Ceniceros
Calumit

Gerald A. Craven
Indifferent Moment
Sammy
Waters Cold and Silent

Michele P. Diamond
Standing before me …

Paul Dorn
Doors
Hell

Nancy Dunham
Music: Here, There, and Everywhere

Greg Gates
I've been living …

Phillip Hemenway
In Memorium: Salvador Puig Antich, garrotted in Madrid, March 2, 1974

 Robert Herring
"B"

Donna G. Hoenes
Will You Still Love Me?
Ride to Palo Alto

Stormy Hubbard
Saturday Night Tent Meeting, Fairbanks, August 6, 1949: What the Evangelist Told the Air Force about Morality and War
Ode to Science

 Larry S. Jackson
Prison Denim

Joel Leonard
And Here's to You, Henry Miller
Es Verdad
Charlie

Jerry Martini
Ode to Science

Jack Merewether
The Ambassador Bridge
It's Possible
Healing

Erroll Miller
Perspective
Please
Scratch Grain

Frank Gregory Newton
A Doctor's Handbook

Paul JJ Payack
The Saint in the Desert
Polyethylene Wind
Excerpt
Dream (Stone-clouds #2)

Gene H. Russell
13 Ski-doo
The Quiet Out Back
(Spleush)

Kali Sichen
To My Mother
Pain, yes pain, I know you. …
What Is this Manhood? Womanhood?

Rick Yurman
Tutorial

Alison Zier
The Middle Aged Princess to the Frog

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Articles

Interviews: Behind the Eye of an Artist by Larry S. Jackson. Interviews of artists Jacquelyn Giuffre, Steve Ladd, and Scott Teeple.

Printmakers Offered $3,000 Fellowships by Larry S. Jackson

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Artwork

Andy Blomeyer

Jennifer Castleman

Jacquelyn Giuffre

Mike Halldorson

Karen Jackson

Steve Ladd

Scott Teeple

Bill White

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Editorial

Publications Studied in NEA Survey by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher

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Announcements

5 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 1, no. 3, 1976

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 4, 1976

Poetry

Michael C. Andrews
Eighth Grade and in Love

W. D. Barnes
Science Fiction Romance
Genealogy

Joan Colby
Mother by Direct-Dial

Raul Dorn
Number 32569728710407 …

Timothy Fizer
Though the birds never ponder …
For Karen:
Detour

Richard Fulani
The Poet
Magicians
Reflections on an Old Cliche

Phillip Hemenway
To Voznesensky ("Motor scooters are streaming past the sanitorium")
Twilight in the Biosphere (Ecce homo; homo fugit, etc.)

Donna G. Hoenes
At the Very Edge

Jascha Kessler
The Man on the Roof

L. W. Michaelson
When Lilacs Last in My Dooryard Bombed
Song Lyrics for a Liberal-Do Good Folk Singer
You, Andy Marvell!
And Be Damned …

Errol Miller
Blue Stars
Sonata II
Amy

Jan Mullen
Zen Improvization
Travelling Troupe
A Summer Haiku
There's love to learn from …

Frank Gregory Newton
I Saw
"Liberty, My Brothers???"
"A Black Messiah"

Shirley R. Powell
Whale---Sound---Lost
Wheelbarrow
New Lights in the Rain

Dennis Ross
Loose Grasp
The Cherokee Hobo at our Blue Mountain Campsite

Gene H. Russell
functioning, laboring, working …

Kali Sichen
What a Life! What a World!
To the Sweet Blood of My Life

Rick Yurman
Moonstruck

Alizon Zier
Tree- Lights

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Features and Articles

"Inner Voice" Changes Alison Zier by Larry S. Jackson (1 photo by author). Story of poet Alison Zier.

Artist Discusses His Lithographs by Larry S. Jackson (1 photo by author). Interview of artist Jack Proctor.

In Cambridge: Phone-A-Poem Program Started by Paul JJ Payack. Interview of Peter Payack, organizer of poetry hotline.

Library for the Blind Records Poetry Tapes by Tom D'Agostino (Samisdat). Taping and sharing poetry tapes by and for the blind begun.

Fine Arts Fellowship Applications Ready by Larry S. Jackson

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Artwork

Jack Proctor

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Guest Columnist

 Poems I DIslike, Poets I Distrust by Kevin Campbell, poet and editor of various literary journals.

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Editorial

I'd Rather Listen to the Summer by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher

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Announcements

5 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 1, no. 4

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 5, 1976

W. D. Barnes
Composer

Guy R. Beining
Ladder of Self
With the Right Marbles You Keep Score
The Political Act

Susan Burkhardt
Lament on a False Dream
The Actress
House Plant

Kevin Campbell
C' Possible (an epithalamion)

Geraldine Connolly
Train Wreck
What I'm Going to be Like When I Get There

Melissa Cumings
This day sings white …
Heavy August hangs …

Donjico
Friendship

Al Ferber
Me & Gus & the Gates of Heaven

Norman Ferrari
The Girl with the Iron Teeth
In a Cracked-Wall Room

Timothy Fizer
Sign Outside a Clock Shop

Philip Hackett
The First Poem

Lou Horvath
Patricia Hearst
Oroloff
San Francisco and Surrealism

M. C. Leo
Seeing Through

Joel Leonard
Many …

Djelloul Marbrook
Women's Legs
Auto Motive

John Mazur
Words are my bullets …
When I'm not listening  to music on the radio, …
Lunch room table for six- …
The girl who goes to bed with men …

Jack Merewither
Return from My Own Cell

Errol Miller
Those Who Came
City Blues
Rose-Marie
Great Henry
New Directions

Beatrice M. Murphy
Verboten

D. M. O'Halloran
Ancient Prayer
Sun washes …

J. E. Pacquin
Where cafes abound …
You went to Nam …
Czechoslovakia …
Blood-spotted tom prowls …
Theologians, God bless 'em, …
A drop of rain …

Paul JJ Payack
Passing Comment
Phrase in Stone
The Dim Lamp

Dennis Ross
The Castaway Poet-- a dream

Chuck Slack-Elliot
Evil Smirks

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Features and Articles

Circumstances Set  Miller's Stage by Larry S. Jackson (1 photo courtesy Errol Miller). Biography of poet Errol Miller.

Stan Sours: "Art Is a Nice Place to Go" by Larry S. Jackson (1 self-portrait by Stan Sours). Interview of artist Stan Sours.

Plath and Waldrop: Poets Reveal "Personal Space" by Mona Ceniceros. Comparative review of works by poets Sylvia Plath and Rosemarie Waldrop.

Feature Editor Named by Larry S. Jackson (1 photo by author). Introduction of Mona Ceniceros as Phantasm's feature editor.

Whitman Award Is $1,000  & Publication by Larry S. Jackson

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Artwork

Robin Carnes [6]
Stan Sours [7]

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Guest Columnist

Poets and Libraries: The Quiet Invasion by Noel Peattie, librarian and publisher of Sipapu and Konocti Books.

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Editorial

Subscriber Only Policy Changes by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher

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Announcements

7 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 1, no. 5, 1976

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Phantasm, Volume 1, Number 6, 1976

Poetry

W. D. Barnes
Composer

Michael C. Andrews
Chameleon

Karen Lind Cushen
Them Salad Days
Quartet: Images from an Indian Temple Sculpture

Norma Davison
In the Conciergerie--Thoughts of the Widow Capet
41° North by 70° Longitude
Street Tones

Gerald Dorset
Running Curtain

Robert Jude Forese
Conspirator

Karen Gaskin
Mercurochrome

David Hein
Presents

R. Nelson Inman
Masterplan
Vieja
Anarchy

Doris Lanier
20

Lyn Lifshin
Leaving the City Too Many People

Don Linder
Simple Statement #1

James Magorian
$59 Sunrise
Lottery Ticket

Frank Gregory Newton
Life Is but Death's Waiting Room
Reason
A Sort of Man

Francis V. O'Connor
Elegy
Two Crows

Kevin Pilkington
Mrs. Grady
The Diner
In the Hands of a Master
A Portrait

John J. Schasny
I'm Starting to Feel Like A Gangster Again

D.G.H. Schramm
Ten Perspectives on Someone Leaving You
Deter-Gent

Joseph Semenovich
A Peasant's Rebuttal

Chuck Slack-Elliot
Outside the Yards

John Appling Sours
Bermuda

B. E. Stock
Note

Diane Tanzi
Dog Days
Flight
Job
Yesterday's freshly spaded earth …

Fred Thaballa
Relation Ship
Workers Report

Gail White
In Their Deep Chambers
The Treasurers of Tutankhamen

P. E. Williams
Flagstaff
A White Man's Town

Christine Zawadiwsky
Blind Faith

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Features and Articles

… Judy Chicago, the Last Supper, china painting and feminist art! by Mona Ceniceros (3 photos courtesy Judy Chicago). Illustrated story of artist Judy Chicago and her current art.

Talented Artists Apply for $7,500 NEA Grant by Larry S. Jackson.

Biographies Are Viewed by Larry S. Jackson (6 photos by interviewees). Illustrated biographical sketches of Phantasm contributors R. Nelson Inman, Jim Magorian, Norma Davidson, Tasia Smith, Frank Gregory Newton, Diane Tanzi, Tom Witt, Gary Miller, and David Harrer.

200 Turn Out for Boston's Festival by Francis Xavier. Review of Boston's first poetry festival, Sept. 19, 1976, presented by Philip Hackett.

Friends of Books and Comics Host S.F. Fair by Larry S. Jackson. Review of San Francisco's Fourth Annual International Book Fair at Fort Mason, October 8–10, 1976.

Ranch, Home, Income Is Shared with Texans. Poets and artists offerered reclusive setting to work on projects.

Oregon Universities Will Hold Symposium by Richard Lyons. Three-day symposium to be presented on publishing and alternative publishing.

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Artwork

David Harrer (2)
Gary Miller (3)
Tasia Smith (6)
Tom Witt (1)

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Guest Columnist

Sharing the Process by John Oliver Simon, author of ten poetry books, publisher (Aldebaran Review), master poet-teacher, and regional coordinator for California Poetry-in-the-Schools. Experiences and viewpoints about poets and poetry.

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Editorial

I Believe in the Uniqueness of Women by Mona Ceniceros, Phantasm feature editor

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Announcements

12 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 1, no. 6, 1976

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Phantasm, Volume 2, Number 1, 1977

Poetry

Carol Adler
This Poem Is Not Original

Glenn Beaverly
Examinations of Exhumed Matter

Guy R. Beining
Terror in Hospital Walls

Ken Bigham
Morning Hours Spent Looking Out a Coffee Shop Window

Milly Brown
We Were the Beatles Generation …

Melissa Cumings
Shining this house is …
Rain dance on the wing window …

Norma Davison
The Shopping Bag Lady

Lawrence Jay Dressner
Princeton
House

Frank Edwards
It was an odd autumn, …
First Snow

Madeleine Gardella
Holiday

Jan Huszcza
Peace

Regina Pomeranz Krummel
Halloween

Richard Longchamps
East River – 2
East River – 3

Sharon Olds
Ambulance on a Country Road
Fossils

Elizabeth Revere
Birds
The Bee Keeper

D. G. H. Schramm
Pattern
Rented Space

Robert L. Smith
Robert L. Smith

Charles and Willy Taylor
Desert Christmas

Julian Tuwim
There Is No Land

Adrienne Wolfert
Black Is Be …

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Fiction

A Man by Antoni Gronowicz. (Photo of author courtesy of author.)

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Features and Articles

Congress Revises Copyright Act of 1909 by Larry S. Jackson. Changes to the copyright law including extended terms.

Using Photographic Methods: How To Make Stone Plate Lithographs by Larry S. Jackson. (10 photos by Larry S. Jackson, 1 floor plan drawing.) Step- by- step description showing Paul Feldhaus making a lithograph print using photographic methods from start to finish. A trial impression is reproduced and bound inside Phantasm.

Graffiti: A Sign of the Times by Mona Ceniceros. History and psychology of graffiti. (4 photos by Larry S. Jackson)

Devin Award Seeks Sample Manuscripts by Larry S. Jackson. Submission information for applying for $500 award for poetry.

New Poetry Group Meets in Northern California by Larry S. Jackson. California State Poetry Society adds new chapter, Lassen Poets,  with meetings in Red Bluff.

Readings, Play and Prizes Set for Hollins College by Larry S. Jackson. Literary festival planned at Hollins College, Virginia, March 19, 1977.

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Artwork

Paul Feldhaus (8)

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Editorial

California Illustrates Ways to Help Artists by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher. Legislation of royalty payments and other examples of how California supports artists.

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Announcements

25 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977

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Phantasm, Volume 2, Number 2, 1977

Poetry

David Adams,
She Says

Julia Alvarez
Mother,

W. D. Barnes
My Aunt

Willis Barnstone
Inca

Anne Cherner
River View

James Farias
The Lady Upstairs

Sandra Gardner
Housekeeping

Emery George
Standalone
Pearls

Janet Gibbs
Ah

Al Gowan
Comprehensive Employment Training Act

David Hein
Chicago Winter

Carla Hoffman
I'd Like to Meet Grendel

Pat Kluges
After School
Musings

Lyn Lifshin
"Merv, I Lost the Children"

G. O. Morphew
The Fan

Richard Newby
1. Female Caucasian, Age 36, Height 5' 4", Weight 115 Pounds

Donald Newlove
Grand Chimerical Painting of the People's Republic

Miklos Radnoti
Sky with Clouds (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)
Dream Landscape (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)
Il Faut Laisser … (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)

Elizabeth Revere
Vespers

Mark Rodriguez
Rain
A Bloodshot Hawk
White Fish

Helen Ruggieri
Position Is Not Quite Predestination

Dorothy Twiss
For Women

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Fiction

Mr. Macha or Androgeny by Irene Tractenberg

The Friends by Laurie Ceniceros

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Book Review

The Gift To Be Simple by Robert Peters. Reviewed by Mona Ceniceros

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Artwork

Kim Morgan (9)

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Features and Articles

Kim Morgan Profits from Art Shows But … by Mona Ceniceros. (1 photo of Kim Morgan by Larry S. Jackson.) Artist talks about her life and work.

Cambridge To Imbed Poems in Sidewalk by Larry S. Jackson. City's Arts Council sponsors a sidewalk poetry project.

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Phantasm Supplement Feature: American Indian Contributors
Edited by Larry Jackson,
bound inside Phantasm, cover by George Cochran

Poetry

Gail Aubertin
Tatanka Iyotake
Visions

Jim Barnes
Autobiography, Chapter II: Setting Out
Autobiography, Chapter XLII: Three Days in Louisville

Peter Blue Cloud
First Light

Robert J. Conley
Satank
To Gigagei Asgaya (a storm prayer)

Dennis Demontigny
Dreams

Patricia L. (Irving) Greene
Missing Grandpa
Salish Songs

Joy Harjo
Four Horse Songs
Crows/And I Know My Part in It, Too
We Are All Foreigners

Lance Henson
Cheyenne Ceremonial Grounds, June 1975
Scattered Light
August Morning

Maurice Kenny
Assimilated
Tanked

William Oandasan
the cold mountain water …
free as a bear …
Farmington, NM

Thomas D. Peacock
Old Ones
Dancer

Bern Porter
Morning Prayer

Wendy Rose
Native American Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1975
Water Colors
Protecting the Burial Grounds

Norman H. Russell
Even the Dead Have Sight
I See the White Flower Dancing
The White Chiefs

Ralph Salisbury
You Too

R. A. Swanson
Little Warrior
He's a temporary warrior …
The Wanderers Prayer

Ray A. Young Bear
All Day I Have Seen You
The Spider: A Naked Body in the Summer

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Fiction
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco by Jamake Highwater

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Features and Articles
Biographical sketches and photos of contributors.
Short biographies of contributors to "Phantasm Supplement Feature: American Indian Contributors" provided by authors.
Indian Treasures To Be Exclusively Exhibited by Larry S. Jackson. (1 photo of the Adena pipe.) Kansas City, Mo., citizens work together to bring  "Sacred Circles: 2000 Years of North American Indian Art" from London for showing April 16–June 19. Dancers, artifacts, speakers.
We Are Our Own Answer by Larry S. Jackson. (1 photo of George Cochran by Larry S. Jackson.) Life of Cherokee artist George Cochran.
Pueblo Indian Commemorative Stamps by Larry S. Jackson. (1 photo of stamps.) Postal Department to issue postage stamps designed by Ford Ruthling commemorating pottery making skills of four pueblos.
Tribal Events. Listing of tribal events happening from late April to mid-June 1977.

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Artwork
George Cochran (9)
Bern Porter (5)

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Guest Columnist

Catching the Last Dance by LaVerne Harrell Clark, author and photographer. (13 photos by author.) Descriptions of various tribal dances viewed and photographed by LaVerne H. Clark.

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Editorial

A Tribute to the First Americans by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher.

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Announcements

26 national announcements of literary events, 38 national tribal events announcements

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Phantasm, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1977, double issue

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Phantasm, Volume 2, Number 3, 1977

Poetry

Yves Bonnefoy
Myrtle (translated from French by Steven White)
The Lamp, The One Asleep (translated from French by Steven White)
VIII (translated from French by Steven White)

Kevin Campbell
First Meditation

David L. Condit
Fra Angelico and the Indians
Two Ways of Looking at Nonsense Blue
The Consumptive Poet Hunts Like Ahab for Air

Jean Davis
Thirteenth Summer

Jan Gauger
Running Light

Robert Hayden
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
"Summertime and the Living. …"
Those Winter Sundays

Helen Heick
Reality is:
The Earth Sails in Infinitive Space

Robert Martin Isaacs
Subject: Social Studies

Alexander Lehmann-Haupt
Vacancy

Judy Katz-Levine
We lie in bed together …

Kenneth Lillquist
Headlines
Crackup

Brooks Lushington
Eligibility

Jean Nordhaus
How

Chuck Oliveros
Baseball and the Patriot

Judith Richardson
Medusa

Marieve Rugo
Anticipation
The Way It Is

Robert Blake Truscott
Robert Blake Truscott

Anne Webster
The Telling
The Exhibitionist

James Conway Westhaver
The Sick Call
The Closet
All Suggesting

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Features and Articles

Robert Hayden's Long Journey by Crain D'Ooge. (1 photo of Robert Hayden courtesy of The Library of Congress.) Life of Robert Hayden raised in Detroit, college teacher, published poet, Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress.

Calligraphy is the Sensualist Approach to the Alphabet by Tim Girvin. (5 drawings by author.) Outlook on calligraphy by internationally recognized calligrapher, illustrator and graphic designer.

Portland, Oregon, Dedicates Poetry Festival to Dickinson by Larry S. Jackson. Activities planned for August 10–14 annual Portland Poetry Festival.

Grants Are Down, Publishing Is Up by Sonia Lazere. (1 photo of Leonard Randolph by author.) Leonard Randolph, director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts tells a group of Colorado educators about the state of funding for poetry.

Kevin Campbell Joins Staff to Become Poetry Editor by Larry S. Jackson. (1 photo of Kevin Campbell by author.) Announcement and brief bio about Phantasm's new poetry editor.

Applications Open for West States Writers Tour by Larry S. Jackson. Information about the Writer's Community Workshops Project sponsored by Western States Arts Foundation in Colorado, October 1–September 30, 1977 for writers, poets, and playwrights.

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Artwork

Tim Girvin (8)
Helen Heick (7)

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Guest Columnist

Creative Writing Programs: An Insider's View by Dr. Charles B. Taylor, teacher of creative writing at University of Texas, El Paso. Politics, requirements, and rewards of creative writing programs.

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Editorial

What Does "Phantasm" Mean? by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher.

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Announcements

18 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 2, no. 3, 1977

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Phantasm, Volume 2, Number 4, 1977

Poetry

Gaius Valerius Catullus
At Death (translated from Latin by Geoffrey Cook)
To Cicero (translated from Latin by Geoffrey Cook)

Carole Cohen
Queen Bee

Virginia DeAraujo
Reconciled
Wild Nights

Arthur Dobrin
What I Know

Frank Graziano
Palenque

Nellie Hill
Taking the River Waist High in the Eyes of Fish
Dance Lessons: A Handbook

Edmond Jabes
The Point (translated from French by Gary Gach)

Michael Jennings
The Hills

Robin Johnson
The Gift

George Keithley
Drifting
Wine

Peter Kunz
I always say goodnight to the older women …
Seems like it's late at night in a foreign city …

Jerred Metz
Drawings for the Blind

June Moreau
Tiny Ant
Poet's Soliloquy

Norma Nimnicht
Western Romance
Toward Sky Camp

Tony Quagliano
Bone and root assassinate …

Jason Shinder
Dream of the Assasin
Saturday Afternoon

Gary Thompson
Chill Factor
Lessons for Fishing the Sierras

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Fiction

The End of the Game by David Mitchell

His Hobby by Aida Shuey

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Features and Articles

Photographers State Objectives by Art O'Donoghue, T. L. Cox, and Mary Swisher. Brief statement about each of the three Phantasm featured photographers', George Thomas, T. L. Cox, and Mary Swisher, approach to their work.

Ted Hughes Gives Reading in San Francisco by Tim Jacobs and Don Skiles. Review of Ted Hughes' poetry reading July 20, 1977, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and his work.

Whitman Award Contest Opens Sept. 15 by Larry S. Jackson. Academy of American Poets offers cash and publication of winner of the its fourth annual contest..

Cambridge Poets Do It with Electric Signs by Al Gowan. (2 photos by author.) Electronic signboards in Harvard Square light up with poems by Cambridge poets, sometimes with musicians on top to get public's attention. Peter Payack leads the program.

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Artwork

T. L. Cox (3)
Mary Swisher (8)
George Thomas (3)

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Editorial

Congressman Is Working to Help the Arts by Larry S. Jackson, editor and publisher.

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Announcements

23 national announcements of literary events

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Phantasm, vol. 2, no. 4, 1977

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Phantasm, Volume 2, Number 5, 1977

Poetry

Boudreau
Magazines

Steven Ford Brown
Things Coming Apart
Separation

C. Douglas Draime
The Dream

Phillip Hemenway
White Coffin
For a Friend, Stricken with Parting

Eileen Lloyd
Off Time

Jennifer Nostrand
Bring me roses in a tight tin box …

Paul Portuges
Illumination

Dennis Ross
The Fragile Sequence

John Appling Sours
Change

Sandor Weores
Canzone (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)
Altwien Daydream (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)
Holderlin (translated from Hungarian by Emery George)

James Conway Westenhaver
Instead of Tears

Peter Wild
Prisoner
Pioneers

John K. Young
What Some People Believe

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Fiction

The End of the Game by David Mitchell

His Hobby by Aida Shuey

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Features and Articles

Here Come the Poetry P