Table of Contents

Part 1: Actualism in the Seventies

The story of a counter-culture poetry movement that began in 1970 in Iowa City.

Lucy In The Sky Interruption for COMIX

Andrei Codrescu, Darrell Gray & James Dickey, Ron Bayes & Steve Levine & Steve Abbott & Lyn Lifshin, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, Stephen Crane, Steve Toth , Funky Pussies, Mary du Passage, Tom Dish , Top Shelf Art, The Odyssey & Hustler & Penthouse & Playboy

Part 2: A Prose History of Poetry City

A memoir of the 10^th poetry marathon--Poem Wrapping a City Block in 1975.

Part 3: Poetry Comics

Letters from readers to Poetry Comics that were printed in “The Muse’s Mailbag,” the letters-to-the editor column.

Part 4: Anthology of Collaborations

200 Actualist collaboration poems written in Iowa City and signed by the authors.