A facsimile of John Ashbery’s “Once Upon a Time” appears in this JSTOR selection of poems published by the Lower East Side zine Adventures in Poetry. See the complete article images of the additional selections.
Adventures in Poetry
Published in the East Village from 1968 to 1975, Adventures in Poetry features poems by New York School poets Anne Waldman, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Bernadette Mayer, and more.
By: Jonathan Aprea
April 20, 2022
The cover artwork for issue 4 of Adventures in Poetry, by Ed Ruscha
via JSTOR
Published between 1968 and 1975, Adventures in Poetry was edited by poet Larry Faginand printed and assembled at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Featured in its pages is writing by many poets associated with the first and second generation of the New York School. Surreal and often playful, the work provides a valuable access point into a vibrant and social community of writers who overlapped both in life and on the page. We’ve gathered together a selection of works by some of the era’s most enduring voices.
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“Once Upon a Time” by John Ashbery
