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	Program: Island/Embassy Reading # 3. July 9, 1964.

This series continued until the legendary Bohemian Embassy ran into financial difficulties but was continued at Rochdale College in 1969 as The Poetry Front. On the occasion of the third reading, Coleman announced the publication of his new poetry magazine Island.

Program reproduced by permission of Victor Coleman.

Newspaper article: “ ‘Pass the Salt,’ This Is Poetry.” By Ralph Thomas. Toronto Star (Summer 1964?)

	Island No 1. September 17, 1964. (8 issues, 1965-1967)

Edited by Victor Coleman; associate editor, Michael Spivak. Produced on a Gestetner machine in Victor Coleman's attic den around the corner from Ray Souster’s new apartment on High Park Avenue, it included many of the poets Coleman had met through Souster the previous year.

Cover reproduced by permission of Victor Coleman.

	Fred Wah. Lardeau. Toronto: Island Press, 1965. (Island 4)

The author's first book, produced simultaneously with Island 5: Stephen Rodefer’s first book, The Knife. Both Wah and Rodefer were students of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley in Buffalo, N.Y.

Cover reproduced by permission of Fred Wah.

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