If you want to see what got me into this crazy racket of hosting literary ventures, here's a digitized reprint of Clock Radio 6-7:

Clock Radio 6-7

Clock Radio was a little magazine I edited and published from 1985-87. It ended up with quite a following, thanks in part to some of the writers I was able to attract: Bukowski, Lifshin, Tom Clark, Locklin, and some really talented lesser-knowns. I remember coming home from vacation one winter and having to go to the post office to pick up two mail bags full of submissions! Yikes, those were the days.

I've just now gotten around to digitizing some old work, and I'm looking forward to getting the other copies of Clock Radio online. In the age of computers, it's hard to imagine that anyone ever put together a publication using only a typewriter, a magazine stapler, and a xerox machine. But that's how Clock Radio was done, and the same could be said of hundreds of other underground publications/little magazines before computer use became widespread. Heck, at Clock Radio I was lucky because I had a typewriter that used proportional fonts!

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Wow this is awesome.  I immediately opened it and can't wait to read it.  So you knew Buk before Buk was cool, eh?

cheryl

Hey, while I'm at it, what about all your other publications listed under your Editor's Intro.  Can those be accessed online?

I followed him avidly and interviewed him a couple of times and his German translator, Carl Weissner, many times. However, even in 85-87, Bukowski wasn't exactly unknown.

I noticed James Alexander is from Little Rock, which is where I live, but I couldn't find anything, except his titles used by other people, like Cosmic Landscapes and Deep Throat.

I also found this:

http://www.jaydougherty.com/writing.html

I'm so nosey.  But will satisfy me for now.  Looks like a bunch of stuff by you/about you or whatever, at that website.

Thanks,
cheryl

Jay--This is awesome. Print magazine like this and their contemporary counterparts are what inspired Lawrence and myself to start our online magazine. The online literary magazine has become somewhat omnipresent these days but I still believe the more the better. Seeing this is a true inspiration.

I always enjoyed the "what I did on my summer vacation" parodies, like this one by Michael T. Calvery:

This had me laughing outloud, Jay!
Read some of the original post, the Bukowski at the start, some really good poems in there!
Tom

Thanks, Tom. I've got the bug again, at least for now. I'm going to unearth all of the old Clock Radio work, and then I'll see what I can do to get into the 21st Century. That's the one we're in, right?

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Yeah. I live a few blocks from Seton Hall University, so a couple years ago while I while was still working at CUNY, I went over and got a teaching job at Seton Hall, to try it out. Went to my first big English Dept. meeting where the Chair gave a rousing speech about leading the department into the 20th century. True story. Tom

As a former boss of mine was fond of saying, "You can't make this shit up!"

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Clock Radio is a cool idea for a journal.  Now it would still be cool, but very retro.  Curious where you got the inspiration to name it that.  Or do you remember.  ;)

Also love the diagram on the front--looks like geometry to me, but very likable

Thanks for sharing this with us and I'm looking forward to what your 'bug' comes up with.

cheryl

I always liked it, too. Guess that's obvious. ;)

Not sure where I got it. I had very few possessions in those days, but I'm sure a clock radio was one of them. Seeing that thing by the bed, and being very influenced by the dada movement, probably lit the candle.

Okay, here is

Clock Radio 8

I believe this was our last edition. I'll have to work backwards now.

'If I'm Limping Today It's Cause He Didn't Shave Last Night' by Raymond L Fausel, page 15 blows me away.  It's one of those poems you don't want to lose or forget.  Wonder where all these writers are now?

Like that "celebrating whoredom" Bukowski and the #9 Bivins "for Charles Bukowski".

I sometimes wonder about that myself. It's a bit scary how fast time marches on.

Speaking of writers who seemingly disappeared, R. Evan Pitts was a promising young poet that I published a few times. Here's his Ear Evolution, a Clock Radio Press chapbook which I still enjoy reading from time to time.