<< Readings at City Lights Bookstore
Tribute to Philip Whalen
Thursday, November 29, 2007, 7 pm


with readings and guest appearances by
Michael Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Norman Fischer and Leslie Scalapino

celebrating the release of

The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
published by Wesleyan University Press


Wesleyan University Press is delighted to present The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen in one volume. This new edition, edited by Michael Rothenberg, contains all of the poems from Whalen’s poetry collections, his previously uncollected poems published in magazines and anthologies, and Calendar, his previously unpublished graduate thesis from Reed College—a work which Whalen considered his first “completed” book of poems. This Wesleyan edition includes Whalen’s “doodle poems” or “visual poems” with their graphic elements in place.

Philip Whalen was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1923. He was a radio mechanic in the Air Corps during World War II and attended Reed College on the G.I. Bill, where he met and developed close friendships with fellow poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch.