Seasonal by Jim McCrary printable pdf

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.