{"id":30715,"date":"2023-06-07T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30715"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:10:13","slug":"30715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/30715\/","title":{"rendered":"MY WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nI got<\/strong><\/span> a poem published in The Wor<\/em>ld. The problem was my then-girlfriend, Nora, didn\u2019t know what the The World<\/em> was. Probably four people in all of Ann Arbor knew what The World <\/em>was. <\/em>It was a poetry magazine from the St. Mark\u2019s Poetry Project, New York City. My poem was alongside\u00a0 poems by Peter Orlovsky, Ed Sanders, Frank O\u2019Hara, Ted Berrigan.<\/p>\n

Nora knew Ed Sanders from The Fugs, and I reminded her Orlovsky was Ginsberg\u2019s boyfriend. Also, she knew about Berrigan because I talked about him so much. He had taught at Michigan three years earlier, and I\u2019d taken his course.<\/p>\n

Now, 1972, Berrigan passed through Ann Arbor again, and he gave me the news I was in The World<\/em>. Berrigan was at the U. for a poetry reading (better, “to read poems”) in the Multipurpose Room at the UGLI (Undergraduate Library). After his reading, I asked Ted if he remembered me from 1969, and he said yes, and he said, \u201cI see you\u2019re in the latest World<\/em>. Me and you both!\u201d He pulled out a copy. I flipped.<\/p>\n

Later I celebrated with Nora at Gino\u2019s, a fast-food hamburger joint on North State Street. (Gino\u2019s was founded by Gino Marchetti of the Baltimore Colts). At Gino’s, in walked Steve Rosen. He had been in Donald Hall’s creative writing class with me. \u201cHey, Rosen, I got in The World<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve flipped. Steve knew the names of almost all the small lit mags in the country, and he\u2019d sent out poems to some crazy places, like to Stevens College in Columbia, Missouri. Steve pointed out to Nora that I was now in the majors. Thank you, Steve.<\/p>\n

Still, I<\/strong><\/span> didn\u2019t have a copy of the mag. Berrigan had possibly the only copy of The World<\/em> in the Midwest. Berrigan said he\u2019d meet me after the poetry reading to go drinking. He would meet up with me and a handful of other Berrigan acolytes. The meet-up didn’t happen. Berrigan went off to Detroit, I think. I spent the evening calling a somewhat-random number and asking, \u201cIs Ted Berrigan there?\u201d<\/p>\n

The World<\/em> was on sale at New Morning Books, St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop and Gotham Book Mart in New York City. The World<\/em> wasn\u2019t in the real world, but it was my<\/em> world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I got a poem published in The World. The problem was my then-girlfriend, Nora, didn\u2019t know what the The World was. Probably four people in all of Ann Arbor knew what The World was. It was a poetry magazine from the St. Mark\u2019s Poetry Project, New York City. My poem was alongside\u00a0 poems by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30844,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions\/30844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}