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Why mimeo? Why an outdated absolutely low tech means of reproduction when all the digital print on demand publishing resources are available? Why valorize, exalt this nostalgia, exaggerate its importance as a mere a place holder, a transitional phase between analog and digital publishing in the marketplace of ideas? Presentation counts but often content suffers by belonging to only those who can afford it through privileged access. Mimeo reiterated here in the digital format recalls the tang of authenticity that purposed those endeavors, a more legitimate way of presenting work, not as commercial product but as unadorned entrée to necessary information which is essentially the definition of poetry.

A blog (online self-publishing) is equivalent to the mimeo magazine in the 21^st Century, basically continuing in the old mimeo tradition of fast and cheap, except that the technology is considerably more sophisticated. Small presses utilizing mimeograph machines were at the heart of the poetry revolution of the late sixties through the mid-eighties. The standard recipe for the production of a mimeo poetry book was a typewriter, preferably electric, a case of paper, a quire of stencils (24 stencils per quire), a working mimeograph machine w/tube of ink, manual or electric, an office stapler, and a case of beer would produce, barring mishaps and paper jams, 250 copies of a 20 page booklet. Once the idea that a sheaf of 8.5×11 (A4) paper stapled on the left vertical edge whose text was duplicated on a mimeograph machine with a hand drawn cover was accepted as a book or magazine, the reader had taken one step further into the adjacent possibility of an alternate appreciation of what constitutes literature. The means of production was placed in the hands of the author sidestepping the roadblocks of institutionalized publishing. Blogs and online self-publishing accomplish the same purpose although with a wider range of design capability and visual effects to commercially legitimize their presentation in the eyes of a reading public.

The mimeo revolution is alive and well. Networks and nodes have awakened to the call. The question is how could something so basic still be appealing. As in its heyday, mimeo connections are forged, bypassing accepted channels of publication. While repurposed with the latest tech, the format remains basic, aware of the constraints of the original method. Neo-Mimeo Editions can be likened to an antique car club with its emphasis on authenticity, and alert to possible anachronisms. In their rusticity, the slide show editions allow poems to appear in their raw manuscript state. There is no flashy gush and pose overshadowing the essential presentation. The printable pdf of each edition offers a further step in acquiring and experiencing, as a replica, the actualized work in the manner of an underground samizdat literature.

In the sixties and into the eighties, the so-called mimeo revolution reinforced a sense of camaraderie with reams of mimeographed paper in the guise of poetry books and magazine produced at a fevered pace in basements, backrooms, and the ever present kitchen. Certainly there is an amateurishness about mimeo productions that can either recommend them or dismiss them as aesthetic objects. However, the small press little magazine and the network/scene that mimeo engendered functioned as a life preserver for many poets/editors/publishers allowing them to stay afloat in the vast, often choppy seas of relevance (or irrelevance) no matter their talent while providing a sense of connectedness to like minds. That sense of immediacy and interchange is being revisited on the Nualláin House, Publishers site. The fatal flaw of this most internet platforms, however, is that the small screen, and the subsequent scrolling that encourages only a cursory reading. Thus the slideshow format hopes to remedy that, and the advantage of having a printable pdf available as a hard copy.

Neo-Mimeo Editions endeavors to return to the fast and cheap no frills esthetic of mimeo in a non-scrolling digital slideshow left to right reading format. The texts are replicated in the limited typewriter font styles then available, generally Courier or Prestige, but in a larger point size (16 vs.12) to accommodate readability on the small screen. The bold text presentation alludes to the often over inked stencils in mimeo production. Each Neo-Mimeo poetry selection, like many original mimeo books, is limited to approximately 20 pages. A pdf file of Neo-Mimeo titles is available (below the slideshow) for those who wish to produce their own hard copy; staples not included.

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onward walking on (1) by Stephen Ratcliffe

Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, including m o m e n t (Spuyten Duyvil) Black and Yellow Notebooks (BlazeVox), Rocks and More Rocks (Cuneiform), Painting (Chax) and Selected Days (Counterpath) which won the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, as well as a collection of his correspondence, Barbara Guest : Stephen Ratcliffe : Letters (Chax). He has also written 3 books of literary criticism, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet, Listening to Reading, and Campion: On Song. His ongoing series of eight 1,000-page books written in 1,000 consecutive days are at Editions Eclipse (http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/editions.html) and his series of daily poems-plus-photographs are at Temporality (http://stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com). Publisher of Avenue B books and Emeritus Professor at Mills College, he has lived in Bolinas since 1973.

[Insert Title] by Gerry Nolan

Gerry Nolan (1947-2025) pursued many creative avenues in his life, and one of them was writing. He published poetry selections in the early 70s, Captain Asthma and Your Book. More recently he participated in The Salt Creek Collective under the auspices of Indiana University. His taste in poetry was eclectic, from Basho to Bukowski; in fiction, from Melville to Elmore Leonard. His real passion, however, was native American culture and arts, a lifelong pursuit. He was by nature a story teller and a trickster, known to some as “Blue Coyote,” a raconteur, a wit, and a pilgrim in search of truth, beauty, and balance in life’s journey.

Chance Demographic by Simon Schuchat

Simon Schuchat has lived in New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing and Moscow, just to name a few. His translations of Chinese and Russian prose and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, as has his own poetry, which has also been published in five collections, most out of print except for latest, THE CENTOS OF SIMON SCHUCHAT, from Aerialedge Books in DC. According to Kathy Acker, “his poetry doesn’t tell you stuff: it is consciousness.” Soviet Texts, his translations of Moscow conceptualist poet Dmitri Prigov came out in 2020 from Ugly Duckling Presse. His translation of Zhang Henshui’s 81 DREAMS will appear from Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Renditions Press in the near future.

Civil Service by John Repp

John Repp is a writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, PA. His twenty collections of poetry and fiction include Never Far from the Egg Harbor Ice House(Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025), As If This Light: Erasures & Collage (Buttonhook Press, 2025), Star Shine in the Pines (Seven Kitchens Press, 2024), The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic, Electric & Remixed, 1980-2020 (Broadstone Books, 2021), and Fat Jersey Blues (University of Akron Press, 2014). Find more about Repp, his work, and his influences at http://www.johnreppwriter.com.

Quaking Aspens by Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson is a Bay Area poet, writer, and musician. Kit has said, “Poetry is language on a holiday. Free to go where it will. But it is not jobless. The job of poetry is to continue, despite everything that is pitted against it.” He is the author of 29 books of poetry, including Tunes & Tens (Roof, 2025), Quarantina (Lavender Ink, 2022), Thought Balloon (Roof, 2019), and The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009). His published collaborations include Individuals with Lyn Hejinian, Cloud Eight with Alan Bernheimer, and A Mammal of Style with Ted Greenwald. Robinson plays Afro-Cuban tres guitar in the charanga band Calle Ocho. For his essays on poetics, art, travel, and music, visit his website: www.kitrobinson.net.

Sudden Onset by Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan is the author of four novels and numerous poetry selections. He is the editor and publisher of Nualláin House, Publishers, and curates four blogs including Parole, the blog of The New Black Bart Poetry Society. As part of the Digital Press Project under the Nualláin House publishing umbrella, he facilitates the posting of poetry from around the world as Neo-Mimeo Editions. His work has been published in a number of poetry anthologies and literary magazine in the US and abroad. This selection of poetry tracks the sudden onset and diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis that manifested itself in 2013. To this day, he continues to receive treatment for this potentially crippling autoimmune condition.

B A L A N C E by Mark Young

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty-five years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are Some Unrecorded Voyages of Vasco da Gama, from Otoliths; Closed Environment, from Neo-Mimeo Editions; & The Complete Post Person Poems, from Sandy Press.

How To Be A Poet In China, Part II by Ma Yongbo

Poet Ma Yongbo was born in 1964 in Heilongjiang Province, China. As a poet, he is repre-sentative of Chinese avant-garde poetry. He is also a leading scholar in Anglo-American postmodernist poetry. Since 1986 Ma has published over eighty original works and translations. He is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Literature, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His studies center around Chinese and Western modern poetics, post-modern literature, and eco-criticism.

How To Be A Poet In China, Part I by Ma Yongbo

Poems That Are More Recent by David Herz

David Herz was born in Boston in 1954 and has lived in Maryland, Georgia, Chicago and New York City as well as seven years in the Brazilian cities of Belo Horizonte and Sao Paolo. For the last 46 years, he has lived in Paris, France. In Chicago he studied briefly under Del Close, at Second City, and with David Mamet. In New York City, he had Alice Notley, poetess supreme, as a teacher. He has worked at many odd jobs such as subtitling movies and Sipa Photopress Agency photographs, technical translation as well as journalism for English language newspapers. Herz practices aikido, poetry, spirituality, the love of good food, and to quote Woody Allen, the appreciation of “contours describing a set of parabolas that would cause cardiac arrest in a yak…” All done at a dignified distance.

Late Night At The Hamburg Inn by Cinda Kornblum

Cinda Kornblum grew up in Newton, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa where she got a BS in Sociology and met Allan Kornblum who was selling copies of Toothpaste Magazine. They were married in 1972 and bought a house in West Branch where Allan continued to print poetry in mimeographed and letterpress formats. In 1985 they moved to St. Paul and Toothpaste Press became Coffee House Press. Cinda worked 29 years as Human Resources Generalist at the University of Iowa and University of Minnesota. Allan passed away in November 2014. Cinda currently lives in Minneapolis near her two daughters, Annabel and Gwen. Cinda co-edited (with Dave Morice and Morty Sklar) The Ultimate Actualist Convention which traces the Actualist movement from Iowa City to the Bay Area.

Triple T Redux by Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt is the author of Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction, The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose, and the five volumes of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Hunt has also published six collections of poetry: Fault Lines, The Tao of Twang, Poem’s Poems & Other Poems, Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award), Voice to Voice in the Dark, and Western Where, received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and been awarded the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize for the poem “Lake County Elegy.”

Mingling by Robert Hébert

Robert Hébert was born in Montreal at the end of World War II. He studied in France for four years and has recently retired from teaching at Collège de Maisonneuve in Montreal. Author of numerous books, his recently published work include Derniers Tabous (Éditions Nota Bene, 2015), Monsieur Rhésus, also with Éditions Nota Bene (2019), and Coulisses from La Compagnie á Numéro (2020). He is currently working on new projects.

Quire, Neo-Mimeo Poetry Anthology, Volume I

Neo-Mimeo Editions has posted 24 chapbooks since the beginning of 2025. Packages of 24 mimeograph stencils are sold as quires. Quire is a little anthology collecting a poem or a representative page from each of the editions published in the same format, as a slideshow, and as a printable pdf file. Many thanks to the authors for participating in this ongoing project.

As A Matter Of Thought by Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan’s previous prose poem selections are Counterintelligence (Doris Green Editions) and Intellectual Pretentions (editions de Jacob). The prose poem should be the result of skillful attention to composition and the poetic potential of prose as exemplified by the Holy Trinity of prose poets, Charles Baudelaire, Max Jacob, and Arthur Rimbaud. As Jacob himself wrote of the prose poem, “Dimension counts for nothing in the beauty of a work, its situation and style are everything.”

Kintsugi by Suzanne Maxson

Suzanne Maxson, a retired public school teacher of History, is grateful to be still living, still writing in Northern California. Movement (Fernwood Press, 2024) is a collection of her poetry. She admires Neo-Mimeo as a timely and radical movement.

Way Out West by Norman Schaefer

Norman Schaefer. Born and raised in Olympia, Washington. College at the University of California, Davis campus—degree in Art History. Lived in Davis for 35 years, making a living as a laborer. Spare time in summer and fall spent climbing and wandering in the Sierra Nevada. Moved to Port Townsend, Washington, north Puget Sound, in 2004. He is the author of The Sunny Top Of California (La Alameda, 2010), Fool’s Gold (La Alameda, 2013), and Lower Putah Song (The Alcuin Press, 2016).

Professional Poems by Daniel Coshnear

Daniel Coshnear has slowly, painstakingly lost all self-respect. Can rhyme be his salvation? No, no, it will be his downfall, the indisputable evidence of his decaying mental hygiene. He was author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly’s Cove Press 2012) and winner of the Novella Prize for Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015), recipient of a Missouri Review Editor’s Prize and a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. His last story collection, Separation Anxiety was released 10/21 by Unsolicited Press.

Hesitations by Rick Henry

Rick Henry’s most recent publication is Bottoms, a stage play. The novella, Colleen’s Count and the epistolary novel Letters (1855), are set in the fictional town of Homer, NY. His other books include: Snow Fleas (a Reverie) and Then (54 text blocks), both from ANC. Just completed is The Soot Collection: 55 consensual novellas born of a brief exchange about surrealism and the erotic. Rick Henry has lived across the United States, but always returns to the sensibilities, landscapes, and histories of upstate New York.

The Littoral and The Imaginary by Carol Ciavonne

Carol Ciavonne’s poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Interim, New American Writing, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. Essays and reviews can be found in Interim, Colorado Review, Rain Taxi, Entropy, Parole and Pleiades. She is the author of Birdhouse Dialogues (LaFi 2013) (with artist Susana Amundaraín) and a collection, Azimuth(Jaded Ibis Press 2014). Ciavonne is an editor of the online journal Posit.

Slices Of A Life Unfinished by Richard Bruns

Richard Bruns has won awards for short stories poetry, science fiction poetry, & photography. He has served as a judge for photo competitions & is a documentarian for political, social, & personal events. He has been an editor, a newspaper page designer, and a publisher. Under the influence of Russian River Poets Pat Nolan, Gail King, & others. Richard Bruns opened up Fiction West Press, publishing Fiction West, devoted to short stories. Using electronic stencils typed on one of the first dedicated word processors, the IBM-50; stencils were run on an. A.B.Dick electric mimeograph machine. Richard is married to Judy, his wife of 45 years.

dimensions, doorstops, sidewalks by Jamey Jones

Jamey Jones is the author of morning coffee from the other side (West Florida Literary Federation, 2021) In The Key of Clothespin (Fell Swoop, 2021), Light Box Over My Head, (3^rd Floor Apartment Press, 2024), and Under The Big Span of Small Regards (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024). He is the faculty editor of Hurricane Review, the literary journal of Pensacola State College, where he teaches English, Literature, and Poetry.

Organized Innocence by Joe Safdie

Joe Safdie’s latest books are Greek to Me (Chax Press), a selected poems dealing with Greek mythology, and Poetry and Heresy (MadHat Press), essays on poets and poetry featuring Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, and Ammiel Alcalay. He lives in Portland, OR.

Haiku and Tanka by Scott Reid

Scott Reid is founder of Poetry du Jour. He is a published poet and writer, a poetry contest judge and a teacher of poetry classes and workshops for children and adults. He has Bachelor and Master’s degrees in English from UC Davis and UC Berkeley. Since 2010 he’s been posting haiku and tanka poetry online. He has over 5000+ Twitter followers.

Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? by Jim Hanson

Jim Hanson, poet, runner, translator, lives on his great-grandparents’ farm near Douglas, Michigan. His most recent physical book, “Trees are Masters of the Space,” combined lyric and narrative to sketch a portrait of that farm, its history and its ecology.

Interrogations by Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan is the author of numerous poetry selections beginning with the mimeographed Rock Me Roll Me Vast Fatality (1969) and Fast Asleep (1977) to the most recent So Much, Volumes I & II (2018-19) spanning fifty years of writing and publishing. “Interrogations” is the title poem of a soon to published selection of poems written over the last fifteen years as an exploration of sketching out longer improvisational segments into discursive compositional aggregates.

Shuffy’s Poem by Norman Fischer

Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He has written and published steadily since the 1970’s. His recent poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, and Men in Suits. Just out from Roof Books is his serial poem Through a Window. Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2022. His Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion was published in the Poetics Series by University of Alabama Press in 2016. His latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives in Muir Beach CA with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org)

Seasonal by Jim McCrary

Jim McCrary’s first poems were published in the mimeo format of Grist Magazine 1966 in Lawrence Ks. Grist was edited and published by John Fowler and later went from mimeo to letterpress and finally to one of the first online mags as Grist-on-Line. Jim published 4 books, dozens of chapbooks and lots of poems in many obscure electronic and print magazines. Over the years he sat in McSorley’s with Paul Blackburn sharing bad poems with him. He sat on the roof of a hotel in Lawrence with Ed Dorn and they drank Old Style beer with John Moritz and Ken Irby. He studied with David Bromige at Sonoma State and spent time with Nolan, Mariah, Grenier, Kyger, Tills, Chadwick and others. It was the best of times. He worked most of a decade as Office Manager for William Burroughs in Lawrence, KS. McCrary is an old man and still lives in Lawrence, Ks.

Baltimore Sun by Simon Schuchat

2 Geese In High Wind by Ann Erickson

Ann Erickson was a WW2 baby and spent her early life on trains and on the move, growing up in the Midwestern U.S. and going to college on the East Coast. She has written poetry and short prose since she was a child but did not publish until she settled on the Russian River in Northern California. During the 49 years she lived on the River, her writing appeared in more than a hundred small press magazines and anthologies. She edited tight magazine, an independent international experimental literary quarterly, from 1989 through 2000. Ann moved north to the Pacific coast in Fort Bragg, California, in 2020 and has been painting seascapes and writing a little.

Damnatio Memoriae by Alexandre Ferrere

Alexandre Ferrere is a 34-year-old librarian living in Caen, France, and has a PhD on American poetry and little magazines. His poems and essays can be found both online and in print, and his latest experimental chapbook titled From Tomorrow, With Love has been published by Ethel in January 2025. Alexandre could have been a flower but cried himself to a human being.

Take Your War And Go To Hell by Gail King

Gail King was an active participant in the mimeo revolution of the 60s and 70s as publisher of Doris Green Editions. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Boxes & Chairs (What Leaf Press) and Hello Life (Nualláin House, Publishers). She live in Monte Rio along the Russian River.

What Is Your Dangerous Career? by Alex Benedict

Alexander Benedict is the editor of betweenthehighway, and he operates offset presses for a living in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the author of the thesis “litany of the green lion,” which he is developing into a biography on Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy. He has had two books of poetry and German translation published: “Fragments of a Mirrored-Voice for a Friend” (Above / Ground) and “OFFHANDEDLY” (Ethel Zine). Recently, he has had two critical essays published: “waste is a form of devotion” (Community Mausoleum) and “From Requiems to Elegies” (Periodicities).

How To Live Under Fascism by Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu’s (codrescu.com) latest poetry books are “No Time like Now,” “It was Today,” “So Recently Rent a World” and “An Epic of Care” (with Vincent Katz). He is currently building andreicodrescu.substack.com in Brooklyn

Salvage by Steven Lavoie

Steven Lavoie is the co-founder the Black Bart Poetry Society, quickly exiled to the Corn Belt, only to return to a life in Oakland as one of the Bay Area’s best-kept poetry secrets. Before his exile with the Actualists, he launched Famous on an A. B. Dick brand mimeograph machine previously owned by Barrett Watten, co-editor with Robert Grenier of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E, a little magazine often thought to be the crucible of the “language poetry” movement. Arguably, Ron Silliman’s work appeared in print for the first time in Famous–it also published future Nobel Prize-winner Czesław Miłosz alongside future American Book Award-winner Gloria Frym. Jackson MacLow, Victoria Rathbun, Michael-Sean Lazarchuk, Lana Marie Michaleczko, Jeffrey Miller, Andrei Codrescu, Alan Bernheimer, and Carla Harryman are among the poets to appear in Famous. The same mimeograph machine produced an affiliated series of chapbooks titled Famous Last Words. Steve spent many years writing a trail-blazing local-history column as librarian at the virtually defunct Oakland Tribune; then as librarian at the Oakland Public Library, taking up the task of bringing the collections of the Oakland History Room (now Oakland History Center) into cyberspace for the first time. He is the author of On The Way, published by Doris Green Editions, and Historic Photos of Oakland, published by Turner in Nashville, Tennessee where he should have relocated long ago to turn his considerable lyrical gift into a multi-million dollar songwriting career. Alas, he’s living in Santa Rosa, very near where he grew up in the B Section of Rohnert Park in a house designed by visionary architect Joseph Eichler. The B Section is NOT mentioned in Eichler’s Wikipedia entry.

Must Fill Horse by Joel Dailey

From high atop FSI (Fell Swoop International) Headquarters in New Orleans, Joel Dailey edits & publishes SWOOPCARDS, an ongoing series of letterpress postcards & broadsides. His latest book is NEW DETAILS EMERGE (New Books, 2023). His previous books all from Lavender Ink include: LOWER 48, MY PSYCHIC DOGS MY LIFE & INDUSTRIAL LOOP.

Closed Environment by Mark Young

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are One Hundred Titles From Tom Beckett, with paintings by Thomas Fink, published by Otoliths in June, 2024; Alkaline Pageantry, published by Serious Publications in September, 2024; The Magritte Poems, published by Sandy Press in October, 2024; the downloadable pdf, The Hit List, published by Scud Editions in February, 2025; &, due for publication, The Complete Post Person Poems from Sandy Press, & Some Unrecorded Voyages of Vasco da Gama from Otoliths.

The Secret Of Poetry by Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan is a poet, translator, editor, and publisher who got his start in the latter days of the mimeo revolution as editor and publisher of the end (& variations thereof) and Doris Green Editions in the early seventies. His work has been published in numerous literary publications and anthologies in the US and abroad. He is the author of four novels and over a dozen poetry selections, including So Much, Volume I & II (1969-2010) and The Thousand Marvels Of Every Moment, a tanka collection. He lives in Monte Rio, California along the banks of the Russian River.

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