United Artists
Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer
Lenox, Massachusetts, and New York
Nos. 1–18 (November 1977–December 1983)
Covers by Louise Hamlin (16), Yvonne Jacquette (17), and Rosemary Mayer (18).
United Artists 8 (October 1979).
Bernadette Mayer and I cofounded United Artists magazine in 1977. We were living in relative isolation in Lenox, Massachusetts, and editing a magazine put us in touch with poets and friends we had left behind in New York. We managed to buy an inexpensive mimeo machine in Pittsfield and we produced the magazine in the living room of our large apartment on the main street of Lenox. The beauty of mimeographing is that we could control every aspect of production ourselves, that I could stay up all night and produce a new issue by morning if I wanted. The first issue reflects our geographical shift and contains work by ourselves and our immediate neighbors, Clark Coolidge and Paul Metcalf. Our idea was, whenever possible, to publish large amounts of a few poets’ work in each issue, as opposed to one or two poems by a lot of people. Among the regular contributors to subsequent issues were Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Diane Ward, and Bill Berkson. United Artists was probably the last of the great mimeo magazines, since by the mid-eighties everyone had computers and all the magazines became perfect-bound with glossy covers so the bookstores would distribute them. We published eighteen issues, from 1977 to 1983, and during this time we returned to New York City and began publishing United Artists Books, which I continue editing into the present.
— Lewis Warsh, Brooklyn, New York, September 1997
United Artists books (complete)
Altmann, Ruth. Across the Big Map. 2004. Cover by Carol Altmann Pinsky.
Berrigan, Ted. The Sonnets. 1982. Cover by Louise Hamlin. Frontispiece portrait by Joe Brainard.
Berrigan, Ted, and Harris Schiff. Yo-Yo’s with Money. 1979. Front cover by Rosina Kuhn. Photographs by Rochelle Kraut.
Brodey, Jim. Judyism. 1980. Cover by Martha Diamond.
Bye, Reed. Join the Planets. 2005. Cover by Donna Dennis.
Carey, Steve. The California Papers. 1981. Cover by Peter Kanter.
Carter, Charlotte. Personal Effects. 1991. Cover by Angela Fremont.
Collom, Jack. The Fox. 1981. Covers by Annie Hayes and William Kough.
Frym, Gloria. Solution Simulacra. 2006. Cover by Amy Trachtenberg. Greenwald, Ted. Clearview/LIE. 2011. Cover by Hal Saulson. Hawkins, Bobbie Louise. Absolutely Eden. 2008. Cover by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Henning, Barbara. Love Makes Thinking Dark. 1995. Cover by Hariette Hartigan. Henning, Barbara. My Autobiography. 2007. Cover by Miranda Maher. Henning, Barbara. Smoking in the Twilight Bar. 1988. Cover by Hariette Hartigan. Highfill, Mitch. Liquid Affairs. 1995. Cover by Mimi Fronczak. Iantosca, Tony. Shut Up, Leaves. 2015. Cover by Zachary Cummings. Krakauer, Daniel. Poems for the Whole Family. 1994. Cover by Dave Barkin. Kushner, Bill. Head. 1986. Cover photograph by Bernadette Mayer. Kushner, Bill. Love Uncut: Poems, 1986. 1990. Cover by Louise Hamlin. Kushner, Bill. That April. 2000. Cover by Donna Cartelli. Lenhart, Gary. One at a Time. 1983. Cover by Louise Hamlin. Mayer, Bernadette. Another Smashed Pinecone. 1998. Cover by Sophia Warsh. Mayer, Bernadette. Red Book in Three Parts. 2002. Cover by Ed Bowes. Moritz, Dennis. Something To Hold On To. 1995. Cover by Pamela Lawton. Notley, Alice. Songs for the Unborn Second Baby. 1979. Cover by George Schneeman. Owen, Daniel. Toot Sweet. 2015. Cover by Pareesa Pourian. Rogal, Lisa. Morning Ritual. 2015. Cover by Leo Madriz. Savage, Tom. Political Conditions/Physical States. 1993. Cover by George Schneeman. Schiff, Harris. In the Heart of the Empire. 1979. Cover by George Schneeman. Schneeman, Elio. Along the Rails. 1991. Cover by Pamela Lawton. Tysh, Chris. Continuity Girl. 1998. Cover by Janet Hamrick. Tysh, Chris. Night Scales. 2010. Cover by Christian Boltanski. Tysh, George. Echolalia. 1992. Cover by George Tysh. Tysh, George. The Imperfect. 2010. Cover by Janet Hamrick. Vermont, Charlie. Selected Poems. 1980. Cover by Alice Notley. Waldman, Anne. Blue Mosque. 1988. Cover by Louise Hamlin. Wallen, Sarah Anne. Don’t Drink Poison. 2015. Cover by Alyssa Matthews. Warsh, Lewis. Hives. 1979. Front and back covers by Rosemary Mayer. Warsh, Lewis. Information from the Surface of Venus. 1987. Cover by Louise Hamlin. Warsh, Lewis. Reported Missing. 2002. Cover by Emilie Clark. Wat, Phyllis. The Influence of Paintings Hung in Bedrooms. 2007. Cover by Noam Scheindlin. Wat, Phyllis. WU going there. 2015. Cover by Noam Scheindlin. Weiner, Hannah. The Fast. 1992. Cover by Anne Tardos. Yankelevich, Matvei. Alpha Donut. 2012. Cover by Nora Griffin.Continue reading