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BEATITUDE MAGAZINE

~*~ WORK IN PROCRESS-~*~ TO COMPLETE LIST OF BEATITUDE MAGAZINES ~*~ PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1959 AND NOW ~* ~

North Beach, San Francisco - 1959
Bob Kaufman began Beatitude magazine with Allen Ginsberg,
John Kelley, and William Margoli . Few local poets were considered
acceptable by the established publishers of that time (for various and sundry reasons)
Thanks to the creation of Beatitude magazines many were published for the very first time.

The first beatitude magazines were designed with the simplest of formats,
8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheets, illustrated  front cover of construction paper and
No back cover and then stapled together and originally sold for 20 or 30 cents an issue.

 
Beatitude Magazine #1

HELLO, ST. FRANCIS

Hello, St. Francis.
Like, you're the only
saint I dig.
This may be
pretentious of me,
or like, not really cool,
but man,
I know those birds and flowers, too....

...William J. Margolis
This was the first poem in
the first issue of Beatitude,May 9, 1959.
Happy Birthday to us, and you, too.

First issue of this magazine was edited by John Kelly and printed by at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California.

Anyone with past issues of Beatitudes or knowledge concerning Beatitude magazines
is invited to share it for the purpose of creating a list as complete as possibe of the original
Beatitude magazines as well as those that have been  published since it has become its own tradition.

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Special thanks to Vince Storti, San Francisco poet, artist and editor of the
North Coast Review, who is generousity sharing his own collection of
several Beatitude magazines for this special project.

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