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