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Entries from March 2019

Anton Romatka (2)

March 31st, 2019 · Comments Off on Anton Romatka (2)

Romatka made a meager and undependable living as a teacher and editor of poetry. He published this curious broadside about his unpleasant interactions with his clients, written as usual in his tiny meticulous calligraphy. The two columns are one sheet (letter size); I scanned them separately to make them easier to read. (Posted by Doug […]

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Anton Romatka (1)

March 26th, 2019 · Comments Off on Anton Romatka (1)

Anton Romatka was a poet, editor, publisher, calligrapher, and teacher, who held forth in Greenwich Village in the 1930s and ’40s. He died in 1948; his body was discovered by the writer John Keel, then a young Village poet himself, working on a magazine with Romatka. You can read the story here. I found very […]

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