Mimeo Doesn’t Fully Dry.

Gill Partington’s LRB review (8 October 2026; archived) of After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025 by Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh is chock-full of interesting tidbits; it starts off with sheets of typescript stuffed under Ohio windshield wipers in 1975 and continues: These baffling bits of ephemera were the first two issues of the Lost and Found Times, produced by the poet John M. Bennett and the painter D.C. Landies. Having sent some copies through the post as a ‘mail art stunt’, they developed the alternative (and cheaper) distribution method of putting flyers on cars in a shopping centre parking lot. Landies died in the late 1970s but the Lost and Found Times continued for another thirty years, sometimes with variant titles (Exploding Horse and Dog Cake Hat). Bennett would print things people sent him, sometimes text, sometimes images, but always ‘unclassifiable materials … that no one else would publish’. Richard Kostelanetz,…