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Jacks Or Better

Jacks Or Better by Pat Nolan printable pdf

Pat Nolan’s Jacks Or Better is one in a series of travel journals modelled on Basho’s kikō (travel diaries) in which the Japanese poet recorded his travels to meet others engaged in the practice of haikai no renga (linked verse). In Jacks Or Better, Nolan travels by train from the Bay Area to New Orleans to meet up with the poet Andrei Codrescu, and then on to Lakeland, Florida to visit with his parents. Travel journals of this type usually consist of a narrative interspersed with haiku-like poems resembling the prose/poetry form of haibun. Nolan’s other excursions at the behest of the muse include The Cloudy Road To The East (Transfer), Exile’s Return (Exquisite Corpse), Bolinas And Beyond (Exquisite Corpse, later published as Ah Bolinas! in a limited edition by Not My Hat Press), and Irony Road (Milk Magazine).

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Sudden Onset

Sudden Onset by Pat Nolan printable pdf

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.

Triple T Redux

Triple T Redux by Tim Hunt printable pdf

If you’d like to hear these poems, you’re invited to mosey on over to
Triple T Redux (the audio).

Tim Hunt is the author of Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a FictionThe 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.”

quire

Quire, Neo-Mimeo Editions Poetry Anthology printable pdf

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.

Featuring poetry by
Pat Nolan. Mark Young, Joel Dailey,
Steven Lavoie, Andrei Codrescu,
Alex Benedict, Gail King,
Alexandre Ferrere, Ann Erickson,
Simon Schuchat, Jim McCrary,
Norman Fischer, Jim Hanson,
Scott Reid, Joe Safdie, Jamey Jones,
Richard Bruns, Carol Ciavonne,
Rick Henry, Daniel Coshnear,
Norman Schaefer, Suzanne Maxson

As A Matter Of Thought

As A Matter Of Thought by Pat Nolan printable pdf

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.”

Haiku & Tanka

Haiku and Tanka by Scott Reid printable pdf

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.

Interrogations

Interrogations by Pat Nolan printable pdf

Pat Nolan is the author of numerous poetry selections beginning with 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.

The Secret Of Poetry

The Secret Of Poetry by Pat Nolan

The Secret of Poetry by Pat Nolan pdf

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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So Much, Selected Poems, Volume I Handwritten Typewriter (1969-1989) & II Notebook Keyboard (1990-2010)by Pat Nolan (Nualláin House, 2018, 2019)

The poems selected here are representative of an acquired esthetic sourced outside of the doctrinaire Anglo-American literary tradition. They do not aim at rhetoric nor do they seek to persuade. Their primary intent is to present the fine distinctions of a perceptual identity in a uniquely spontaneous improvisational manner to the ear as well as to the page. “If I have any purpose as a poet it is to remove myself from the musty authority of an entrenched academic conservatism and approach the word in its current state of utter mutability,” Nolan states in the introduction to this two volume selected poems.
“Pat Nolan is one of the poets, Ted Berrigan once said, that you have to always keep an eye on because he can do unexpected startling things that leave you eating his dust.”
— Andrei Codrescu, author of  So Recently Rent A World: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2012.


Exile In Paradise by Pat Nolan (Nualláin House, 2017)

The poems of Exile In Paradise are derived from a lifelong appreciation of classical Chinese poetry. Although removed by degrees of separation from the originals in time and language, their impulse remains the same: to call up the perceptual as a song of celebration in sacred engagement with the world.
“Nolan has given Solitude, itself, a voice in this rich lyric of nature. A luminosity of flickering bursts pause and magnify now moments of being alive. His quotidian soaks us with its presence. His lines trace the air.”
—Maureen Owen, author of Erosion’s Pull and Edges of Water


the thousand marvels of every moment, a tanka collection by Pat Nolan (Nualláin House, 2018)

Tanka is the modern name for a short five line poem known throughout the history of Japanese literature as a waka
“Pat Nolan’s new collection of short poems the thousand marvels of every moment is a late harvest wonder. Distilled in the key of tanka, these poems make sparks out of crumpled paper & ‘fine white rain.’ No better description of the book than from within: 
through the particle haze dance
joy and marvel of the mind”
—Eric Johnson, poet, master printer


Poetry For Sale, Haikai no Renga (linked poetry), introduction by Pat Nolan with linked verse by Keith Kumasen Abbott, Sandy Berrigan, Gloria Frym, Steven Lavoie, Joen Eshima Moore, Maureen Owen, Michael Sowl, John Veglia (Nualláin House, 2015)

This collection of linked poetry presents a fascinating excursion in comparative literature by a cross-section of exceptional, widely published American poets. In these pages haikai no renga is synthesized as a brief, highly suggestive, well spoken, maddeningly ambiguous, read-between-the-lines kind of poetry.
“I have seen a number of attempts to do versions of linked poetry in English, and I think yours the truest to the spirit of the Japanese. . . .”
—Earl Miner, author of Japanese Linked Poetry and The Monkey’s Straw Raincoat