For the Canadian political magazine, see This Magazine

This Magazine

This Magazine is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine. It was launched "by a gang of school activists" in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools, a journal covering political issues in the education system...

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This is a poetry journal associated with what would later be called Language poetry because during the time span in which This was published, "many poets of the emerging Language school were represented in its pages".

The first three issues were edited by Robert Grenier

Robert Grenier (poet)

Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...

 and Barrett Watten

Barrett Watten

Barrett Watten is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets.Since 1994, Watten has taught modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit...

 (1971–1973). The subsequent nine issues were edited by Watten (1973–1982).

Some of the writers featured in the pages of This magazine include: Steve Benson

Steve Benson

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Bill Berkson

Bill Berkson

Bill Berkson is an American poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties.-Life:Born in New York on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan’s Upper...

, Merrill Gilfillan

Merrill Gilfillan

Merrill D. Gilfillan is an American writer of poetry, short fiction, and essays.-Life and work:Gilfillan was born and raised in Mount Gilead, Ohio, where his outdoorsman father worked as a naturalist for the state's Department of Natural Resources and helped inspire an early fascination with the...

, Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...

, Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer is a poet and prose writer. In 1967 she received a BA from New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci and the United Artists Press with Lewis Warsh...

, Michael Palmer

Michael Palmer

Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...

, Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 20 books of poetry.-Life and work:...

, Jim Rosenberg, and Peter Seaton

Peter Seaton

Peter Seaton was a U.S. poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential...

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Watten also published monographs under the imprint "This Press" (1974-1986?): "which began with publication of Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island.Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--- including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac, and movies--- often finds...

's The Maintains in 1974 and published work by Larry Eigner

Larry Eigner

Laurence Joel Eigner / Larry Eigner was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School....

, Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman

Ron Silliman is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet...

, Robert Grenier

Robert Grenier (poet)

Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...

, Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...

, Ted Greenwald, Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson

Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 20 books of poetry.-Life and work:...

, Bruce Andrews

Bruce Andrews

Bruce Andrews is a U.S. poet who is one of the key figures associated with the Language poets .-Life and work:...

, and Alan Davies

Alan Davies (poet)

Alan Davies , is a contemporary American poet, critic, and editor who has been writing and publishing since the 1970s. Today, he is most often associated with the Language poets.-Life and work:...

". These writers also appeared in the magazine during its run of issues.

Selected publications of "This Press"

• Under The Bridge by Carla Harryman. 64pp.
• Sonnets (Memento Mori) by Bruce Andrews. 80 pp.
• 1–10 by Barrett Watten. 64 pp.
• Country/Harbor/Quiet/Act/Around by Larry Eigner. Selected prose. 160 pp.
• Series by Robert Grenier. 144 pp.
• Ketjak by Ron Silliman. 96 pp.
• Quartz Hearts by Clark Coolidge. 64 pp.
• You Bet! by Ted Greenwald. 80 pp.
• The Maintains by Clark Coolidge. 104pp.
• The Dolch Stanzas by Kit Robinson. 32 pp.
• Decay by Barrett Watten. 32 pp.

External links

• Barrett Watten, comp., "This 1-12 Index" (Oakland, CA: This Press, 1983). Digital facsimile edition published by Eclipse.