Charles Bukowski Magazines & Journals

By submitting relentlessly to anyone who would print him — poetry journals, avant-garde publications, obscure mimeographed newsletters — he would become known as King of the Underground.

He didn't discriminate. Conservative journals, avant-garde publications, underground newspapers. The little magazines were his arena, and he worked it harder than anyone. Most of the Black Sparrow books that made him famous weren't written for those books — they were collections of work that first appeared in magazines like these. The magazines came first. They always did.

We have nearly 400 of them, spanning three decades of his career. That probably represents about 20 percent of everything that published him. But Bukowski wasn't the only one. These magazines also published Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many of the Beat writers who defined an era. If you're interested in the American small press poetry scene of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, this is one of the largest collections you'll find anywhere.

Browse by era or category: 1956–1965 · 1966–1975 · 1976–1985 · 1985–Present · Signed Magazines · Wormwood Review · Girly Magazines

Browse everything below — and read the descriptions. Each one has a story.