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A collection of ephemera related to sound poetry and experimental poetics in the Mid-Atlantic region, circa the late 1970s and 1980s, from the collection of the poet, author, and artist Marshall Reese, co-founder of the Baltimore-based sound poetry group CoAccident and co-editor of the little magazine ePod. CoAccident was comprised of Reese, Kirby Malone, Chris Mason, and Alec Bernstein. The group performed throughout Baltimore, Washington D.C., and the United States from 1978-1982 and brought numerous, influential practitioners of experimental poetics to the D.C. area, including Steve McCaffery, Le Plan K, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Jackson Mac Low, and Hannah Weiner. CoAccident was also the driving force behind Marzaum, an experimental production company responsible for the 1978 Festival of Disappearing(s) Art(s), held at Johns Hopkins University. The collection contains: 17 standard-sized flyers (8 ½ x 11 in. to 8 ½ x 11 ¾ in.); 8 oversize flyers (8 ½ x 14 in. up to 23 x 16 in., majority 11 x 17 in.); 7 brochures and catalogs; 5 publications; 1 Xerox typescript draft; and 10 photographs. Standard flyers include events held at Second Story Books, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, The Red Door Hall, the Maryland Institute of Art, among others. Oversize material represents performances at Folio Books, St. Johns United Methodist Church in Baltimore, the Apathy Project, The Kitchen, Bread and Ross Coffee House, and Johns Hopkins University, among others. Brochures document performances by CoAccident, Le Plan K, Steve Lacey, and Jeanette Yanikian. Publications include: ePod, nos. 1 and 2 (Kirby Malon and Marshall Reese, eds., 1978); E (Carl, Eugene and Marshall Reese, eds., 1976); Remember, The Future Can Be Simulated (CoAccident, eds., [1979]); and Parts of an Unfinished Collaboration (Alan Davis and Michael Gottlieb, 1982). The 10 photographs feature performances from the Festival of Disappearing(s) Arts(s), taken by Reese. The Xerox typescript is circa 1988 and is a script for an early work by Reese and his partner, Nora Ligorano, produced as their artistic collaboration Ligorano/Reese. Some toning to certain flyers, overall clean and near fine condition.
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