1972 Smith 1996 

Larry Smith Kenneth Patchen Timeline(Last updated 26 Jun 1996) [KR, 2005]

1911 Born Niles, Ohio, 13 December

1926-1928 Attends Warren G. Harding School, Warren, Ohio

Publishes in school newspaper, 1928

1929-1930 Attends Alexander Meikeljohn's Experimental College, Wisconsin

Publishes Permanence in the New York Times, 1929

1930  Attends Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas

1930-1931 On the road

1932 Living and working in Boston

Publishes Lenin in Rebel Poet. 1932

 1933  Meets Miriam Oikemus in Boston

 1934 Marries Miriam Oikemus, 28 June

Moves to Greenwich Village, New York

Writes reviews for New Republic

 1935-1936 Living in Greenwich Village, New York

 Publishes first book of verse, Before the Brave. 1936

1937-1939 Moves to Los Angeles; Sustains back injury

1939  Moves to Norfolk, Connecticut; Works for James Laughlin at New Directions publishing company

Publishes Bury Them in God, 1939

Publishes First Will and Testament, 1939

 1940-1947  Moves to New York

Begins to write The Journal of Albion Moonlight

Publishes The Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1941

 Publishes The Dark Kingdom, 1942

Publishes The Teeth of the Lion, 1942

Broadcasts The City Wears a Slouch Hat (Radio Play), 1942

 Publishes Cloth of the Tempest, 1943

 Wins Ohioana Award for Cloth of the Tempest, 1944

 Publishes Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, 1945

 Publishes An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, 1946

Publishes Outlaw of the Lowest Planet, 1946

Publishes Sleepers Awake, 1946

Publishes Pictures of Life and Death, 1946

Publishes Panels for the Walls of Heaven, 1946

Publishes They Keep Riding Down All the Time, 1946

Publishes Selected Poems, 1946

 1947-1951 Moves to Old Lyme, Connecticut

Publishes Introduction to Job. Invented and Engraved by William Blake

 Publishes CCCLXXIV Poems, 1948

Publishes To Say if You Love Someone, 1948

Publishes See you in the Morning, 1948

 Publishes Red Wine and Yellow Hair, 1949

 1950 First major spine operation,

 1951-1972 Moves to California

 Living in San Francisco, 1952

Publishes Orchards, Thrones and Caravans, 1952

 Publishes Fables and Other Little Tales, 1953

 Receives Shelley Memorial Award, 1954

Publishes The Famous Boating Party, 1954

Publishes Poems of Humor and Protest, 1954

 Publishes Glory Never Guesses, 1955

 Undergoes spinal fusion operation. 1956

Publishes Surprise for the Bagpipe Player, 1956

 Pioneers Poetry-Jazz with the Chamber Jazz Sextet , 1957

Records Kenneth Patchen Reads with the Chamber Jazz Sextet, 1957

Publishes Hurrah for Anything, 1957

Publishes When we were here together, 1957

 Publishes Poemscapes, 1958

 Sustains further back injury during surgery, 1959

Publishes the play Don't Look Now, 1959

Folkways Album #FL9717 Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen Read by Kenneth Patchen, 1959

Folkways Album #FL9718 Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada, 1959

Publishes Because It Is, 1960

Publishes The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, 1960

 Records Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems, 1961

Folkways Album #FL9719 Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems, 1961

 Publishes Hallelujah Anyway, 1966

Publishes Doubleheader, 1966

 Receives award from National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities for "life-long contribution to American letters, 1967

 Publishes But Even So, 1968

Publishes The Collected Poems, 1968

Publishes Love and War Poems, 1968

 Publishes Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces, 1970

Publishes There's Love All Day, 1970

 Publishes Wonderings, 1971,

Publishes Tell You That I Love You, 1971

 1971 The Mount Alverno Review, (ed. Michael C. Ford)

1972  Dies California, 8 January, 1972

Tribute held at City Lights Poets Theater, 2 February, 1972

In Quest of Candlelighters published, May 1972

Folkways Album #FL9716 The Journal of Albion Moonlight, 1972

 Green Tree Records #101 Fables Kenneth Patchen, undated

1977 Tribute to Kenneth Patchen published,

Patchen's Lost Plays published, 1977

Kenneth Patchen Patchen's Lost Plays (Ed. and Introduction: Richard G. Morgan) Capra Press: Santa Barbara, CA, 1977, 93 pp. (There are two plays: Don't Look Now (1967) and The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1941)

 1980 Still another Pelican in the Breadbox published,

 1984 What Shall We Do Without Us? published, 1977

 2001 Memorial Tribute of The Mount Alverno Review, 1971, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, 2001.

Wanda Coleman tribute poem, 2001

 

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