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Poetry. Operating in Buffalo, NY, from 1969 to 1979 as a poetry reading series and since then as a small press, the Outriders Poetry Project has featured more than 140 writers, including Charles Baxter, Marvin Bell, Robert Bly, Jack Clarke, Albert S. Cook, Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Cornelius Eady, Ray Federman, Irving Feldman, Allen Ginsberg, Mac Hammond, Lee Harwood, Robert Hass, Anselm Hollo, David Ignatow, Erica Jong, Carolyn Kizer, John Logan, Morton Marcus, Steve McCaffery, bp Nichol, J.F. Nims, Jarold Ramsey, Louis Simpson, William Stafford, Gerald Stern, Andrew Taylor, Rosmary Waldrop, John Wieners and Al Young. This retrospective anthology includes work by all of these writers and by over seventy others. Max Wickert's "Introduction" gives an overview of Buffalo's electric literary environment which nurtured the Project. An Appendix provides a "Roster" of all Outriders participants and a detailed "Chronology of Literature and the Arts in Buffalo from 1960-1980." "A gorgeous and revealing documentation of Buffalo's poetic vitality... Wickert's introduction is] one of the best pieces ever written about Bohemian and cultural life in Buffalo." Jeff Simon, Buffalo News"