Ed Smith Papers
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Abstract
Ed Smith was a poet, active in the 1980's in the scene centered around the Beyond Baroque/Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles. His papers cover the period 1978-2005, when Smith lived in Los Angeles and New York City. The materials include, but are not limited to, journals, notebooks, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, flyers, photographs, monographs and periodicals.
Biographical Note
Ed Smith was born in Downey, California in 1957. He attended Pomona College in Claremont, California for one academic year (1975-76), before making his way to Los Angeles. He worked as a paralegal and for an independent record and video company, became interested in the punk scene, and then found his calling as a poet in the scene centered around the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in the 1980's. He published two collections of poetry, Fantasyworld (Venice, CA, Cold Calm Press, 1983)and Tim's Bunnies (Los Angeles, Cold Calm Press, 1988). His poems also appear in the collection Poetry Loves Poetry (Santa Monica, Momentum Press, 1985), and in various magazines. He practiced some journalism, writing articles and doing interviews for the magazine Shiny, of which he was also West Coast Editor, and for the L.A. Reader. To make ends meet, he worked as a typesetter, a movie ad copywriter, and as a math tutor at a private school. His friends and associates in the poetry scene included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan. Other friends well represented by his papers include poets Amy Gerstler, Steven Hall, and Celia Pearce, musician Ingrid Baumgart, and video and performance artist Skip Arnold. He lived for periods of time with the latter two. After moving to New York City in the late 1990s and marrying artist Mio Shirai, Smith devoted himself to a business venture, CSAI, a consulting firm helping companies apply W. Edwards Demming's principles of emergent intelligence to their organizations.
Arrangement
Ed Smith maintained his own combined subject and correspondence files, which he kept in folders arranged alphabetically, occasionally by first name, more often by last name, and by subject. His original arrangement has been kept in Series II. Where no folders existed for loose materials, new subject or correspondence files were created and interfiled with Smith's. Folders that were not part of Smith's arrangement scheme are indicated by brackets around the title.
Materials are arranged chronologically within the folders, except in the [flyers] folder wherein the mostly undated material is arranged by venue.
- Series I: Journals/Notebooks
- Series II: Correspondence and Subject Series
- Series III: Drafts, Production Materials, Final Published Work
- Series IV: Printed Matierals
Scope and Content Note
The Ed Smith Papers are part of the Downtown Collection at Fales Library, New York University. The papers cover the period 1978-2005, when Smith lived in Los Angeles and New York City. The material is arranged into four series:
Series I: The Journals/Notebooks Series consists of spiral notebooks, bound notebooks, loose pages, and legal pads containing diary entries, drafts of poetry and correspondence, and business notes, arranged chronologically.
Series II: The Correspondence and Subject Series consists of interfiled correspondence folders and subject folders, arranged alphabetically (see arrangement note, below). The folders contain correspondence received by Ed Smith, flyers, photographs, and ephemera in chronological order. Some of the correspondents in his papers are former tutoring students.
Series III: The Drafts, Production Materials, and Final Published Work Series consists of published copies of Smith's books and articles, production material related to Tim's Bunnies, and draft material, including drafts by other writers. Draft material can also be found within the journals of Series I and the letters of Series II.
Series IV: The Printed Materials Series consists of four subseries of materials collected by Ed Smith: subseries A consists of monographs arranged alphabetically by author, subseries B consists of periodicals arranged alphabetically by title, subseries C contains catalogs for art shows arranged chronologically, and subseries D is miscellaneous printed materials arranged chronologically.
There is one large flat oversize box of material removed from Series II, and one large flat oversize box of material removed from Series III.
Other books and periodicals owned by Ed Smith have been separated out and moved to the stacks of the Fales Downtown Collection.
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Access Restrictions
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Ed Smith Papers; MSS 177; box number; folder number or item identifier; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.
Provenance
The materials were created and/or assembled by Ed Smith, and donated to the Fales Library in 2006 by his wife Mio Shirai.
Separated Materials
The following published materials have been separated and individually catalogued into the Fales' Downtown Print and Periodicals Collection. Call numbers for these items can be located through Bobcat, NYU's online catalog.
Monographs removed to the Downtown Collection:
Abbott, Steve: Holy Terror (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1989)
Abbott, Steve: Lives of the Poets (San Francisco: Black Star Series, 1987)
Abbott, Steve: Skinny Trip to a Far Place (San Francisco: e.g. a literary press, 1988)
Abbott, Steve: Wrecked Hearts (San Francisco: Dancing Rock Press, 1978)
Barry, Lynda: Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Coloring Book (Seattle, WA: The Real Comet Press, 1984)
Carr, Robin: Black Jello (Los Angeles, Little Savage Press, 1992)
Carr, Robin: Mudpies (Los Angeles, Little Savage Press, 1984)
Clinton, Michelle T.: High Blood Pressure (Los Angeles, West End Press, 1986)
Cooper, Dennis: Antoine Monnier (Sherman Oaks, CA: Anon Press, 1978
D'Allesandra, Sam: Slippery Sins (San Francisco: Ice Press, 1983)
DeLynn, Jane: Bad Sex is Good (New York: Pantheon Books, 1990)
DeLynn, Jane: In Thrall (New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1982)
DeLynn, Jane: Leash (Los Angeles and New York: Semiotext(e), 2002)
DeLynn, Jane: Some Do (New York, Macmillan, 1978)
Equi, Elaine: The Corners of the Mouth (Culver City, CA: Iridescence, 1986)
Ferrari, Mary: The Isle of the Little God (New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1981)
Fisher, Harrison: Curtains (Washington, DC: The Word Works, Inc., 1980)
Flanagan, Bob: Bob Flanagan: Super-Masochist. Re/Search People Series, vol. 1(San Francisco: Re/Search Publications, 1993)
Flanagan, Bob: The Kid is the Man (Hermosa Beach, CA: Bombshelter Press, 1978)
Flanagan, Bob: The Pain Journal (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2000)
Friedman, Michael: Special Capacity (New York, Intermezzo Press, 1992)
Gerstler, Amy and Smith, Alexis: Past Lives (Santa Monica: authors and Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1989)
Gerstler, Amy: Early Heaven (San Francisco, Ouija Madness Press, 1984)
Gerstler, Amy: Primitive Man (Madras and New York: Hanuman Books, 1987)
Gerstler, Amy: The True Bride (Santa Monica: The Lapis Press, 1986)
Gerstler, Amy: Yonder (Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1981)
Hall, Steven: Black Watch (New York: Intermezzo Press, 1991)
Hall, Steven: My Newport (New York: Shell Press, 1981)
Hall, Steven: Style (New York: Shell Press, 1980)
Koertge, Ron: Diary Cows (Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, 1981)
Krusoe, James: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Los Angeles: Illuminati, 1984)
Krusoe, James: Small Pianos (Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1978)
Lehman, David (editor): Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms (New York: Collier Books, 1987)
Maw Shein Win: Tales of a Lonely Meat Eater (Long Beach, CA: Lemon Fingers Press, 1991)
McKuen, Rod: In Someone's Shadow (New York: Cheval Books and Random House, 1969)
McKuen, Rod: In Someone's Shadow (New York: Cheval Books and Random House, 1969)
McKuen, Rod: Listen to the Warm (New York: Random House pocket edition, 1963-1969)
McKuen, Rod: Listen to the Warm (New York: Random House, 1963-1967)
McKuen, Rod: Lonesome Cities (New York, Random House, 1965-1968)
McKuen, Rod: Moment to Moment (New York, Simon and Schuster/Cheval Books, 1974)
McKuen, Rod: Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows (Hollywood, CA: Cheval/Stanyan, 1966)
McKuen, Rod: Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows (New York: Random House, 1967)
McKuen, Rod: Suspension Bridge (New York: Harper and Row, 1984)
McKuen, Rod: With Love (Los Angeles: Stanyan Books and Random House, 1968)
McWilliams, Peter: I Have Loved (Allen Park, Michigan: Versemonger Press, 1968)
Meltzer, Richard: Richard Meltzer's Guide to the Ugliest Buildings of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Illuminati, 1984)
Northup, Harry E.: Enough the Great Running Chapel (Santa Monica: Momentum Press, 1982)
Notley, Alice: How Spring Comes (West Branch Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981)
Podesta, Patty (editor): Resolution: A Critique of Video Art (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1986)
Rexroth, Kenneth (translator): One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (New York: New Directions, 1976)
Rexroth, Kenneth (translator): One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (New York: New Directions, 1971)
Schutz, Susan Polis: Peace Flows From the Sky (Boulder, CO: Blue Mountain Arts Inc, 1974)
Sexton, Anne: The Death Notebooks (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1974)
Shaw, Jim: Life and Death (The End is Here Publications, 1981)
Sherwood, Rachel: Mysteries of Afternoon and Evening (Chatsworth, CA: Sherwood Press/Yarmouth Press, 1981)
Smith, Ed: Dwasline Road (Clifton, NJ: Gaede's Pond Press, 1983) (note: the author is a different Ed Smith from the Ed Smith of these papers)
Smith, Ed: Fantasyworld (Venice, CA: Cold Calm Press, 1983)
Smith, Ed: Tim's Bunnies and Other Poems (Los Angeles: Cold Calm Press, 1988)
Tom of Finland: Cops in Tom's Drawings (Los Angeles: Tom of Finland)
Turrell, Occluded Front (Larkspur Landing, CA: The Lapis Press, 1985)
various authors: Atrophy! (Los Angeles: Blue Funk Press, 1987)
Vinogrand, Julia: Street Mystery (J/S Press, 1985)
Periodicals removed to Downtown Collection:
Actual Size, no. 1
Blind Date, no. 3, 1988
Comet, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2000
Comet, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring 2001
Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no. 1, Fall 1981
Damage no. 5, Spring 1980
Damage no. 9, September/October 1980
The Daughters of the Rectangle, no. 2, 1981
Destroy All Monsters vol. 2, no. 6, 1979
Destroy All Monsters no. 5
Destroy All Monsters no number, no date
Female FYI, no. 5
Flat Disk Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 16 [1981]
Flat Disk Newsletter [1982]
Flip Side, no. 9, [1978]
Flip Side, no. 15, 1979
Flip Side, no. 18, 1980
Flip Side, no. 57, Fall 1988
Forehead, vol. 1, 1987
Forehead, vol. 2, 1990
Gandhabba, no. 4, 1986
The Headbanger, no. 6, 1983
Heavy Metal Hardware no. 11
Insurgence no. 1, 1984
Lemon Fingers Emerge, no. 2
Lemon Fingers Emerge, no. 3
Lemon Fingers Emerge, no. 4, 1987
Magazine, vol. 12, no. 3, Winter 1982
Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1983
Magazine, vol. 13, no. 2, Spring 1983
Magazine, vol. 13, no. 3, Summer 1983
Magazine, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter 1983-84
Magazine, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring 1984
Nude Erections, no. 2, 1985
On-Slaught, no. 2, 1982
Poetry Project, no. 110
Poetry Project, no. 111
Puncture,
Scratch Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, 14 July 1983
Scratch Magazine, vol. 1, no. 24, 2 December 1983
Shiny: The Magazine of the Future, no. 5, 1990
Shiny: The Magazine of the Future, no. 6, spring/summer 1991
Slash, vol. 1, no. 12
Slash, vol. 2, no. 7
Slash, vol. 3, no. 3
Slash, vol. 3, no. 4, 1980
Snap, vol. 1, no. 1, 1982
Spazz, vol. 1, no. 9, 1994
Spectacle Magazine, nos. 5/6, Fall 1986
Stop, vol. 2, 1990
Stuff Magazine, no. 36, 1982
Stuff Magazine, no. 39, 1983
Umezowea, no. 6
Whispering Campaign (contains 3 poems by Ed Smith)
Zomoid Illustories by Jim Shaw, vol. 1, no. 27, 1985
Zyzzyva, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring 1986
Zyzzyva, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 1986-87
Zyzzyva, vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 1987
Zyzzyva, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 1987-88
About this Guide
Processing Information
Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2021 are unknown.
In 2021, narrative description was revised in the biographical note to edit harmful language regarding mental health and suicide. Changes were made based on the Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide.
Revisions to this Guide
Repository
Series I: Journals/Notebooks
Scope and Contents note
The Journals/Notebooks Series consists of spiral notebooks, bound notebooks, loose pages, and legal pads containing diary entries, drafts of poetry and correspondence, and business notes, arranged chronologically. The date reflects the date the journal begins.
Journals/Notebooks, 16 February 1978, 1978
Journals/Notebooks, 1 January 1979, 1979
Journals/Notebooks, [late 1970's], [late 1970's]
Journals/Notebooks, [late 1970's], [late 1970's]
Journals/Notebooks, 1 February 1980, 1980
Journals/Notebooks, 10 February 1981, 1981
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages Ed Smith foldered and labeled "Old Work Diary", 2 November 1981, 1981
Journals/Notebooks, 4 November 1981, 1981
Journals/Notebooks, 14 January 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, 10 February 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, 16 March 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks 7 April 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, 7 July 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, 26 August 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, 10 November 1982, 1982
Journals/Notebooks, [late 1982], [late 1982]
Journals/Notebooks, [late 1982], [late 1982]
Journals/Notebooks, 16 February 1983, 1983
Journals/Notebooks, 27 December 1983, 1983
Journals/Notebooks, 8 February 1984, 1984
Journals/Notebooks, 26 February 1984, 1984
Journals/Notebooks, 8 August 1984, 1984
Journals/Notebooks, 22 October 1984, 1984
Journals/Notebooks, 31 January 1985, 1985
Journals/Notebooks, 23 October 1985, 1985
Journals/Notebooks, 17 October 1986, 1986
Journals/Notebooks, 26 July 1987, 1987
Journals/Notebooks, 8 August 1987, 1987
Journals/Notebooks, 3 November 1987, 1987
Journals/Notebooks, 14 June 1988, 1988
Journals/Notebooks, 24 September 1988, 1988
Journals/Notebooks, 12 April 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 2 July 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 6 July 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 8 September 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 28 September 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 29 September 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 4 October 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, 7 October 1989, 1989
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages dated, chronological 1978-1988 (bulk 1981-1986), 1978-1988
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages undated, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages undated, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages undated, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages undated, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, index cards tied together with string, [1980's], [1980's]
Journals/Notebooks, July 1990, 1990
Journals/Notebooks, 28 November 1990, 1990
Journals/Notebooks, 17 November 1991, 1991
Journals/Notebooks, 31 January 1992, 1992
Journals/Notebooks, 12 September 1992, 1992
Journals/Notebooks, 23 June 1993, 1993
Journals/Notebooks, 4 August 1994, 1994
Journals/Notebooks, 18 March 1995, 1995
Journals/Notebooks, 4 April 1995, 1995
Journals/Notebooks, 15 July 1997, 1997
Journals/Notebooks, 14 August 1997, 1997
Journals/Notebooks, 19 November 1998, 1998
Journals/Notebooks, 16 February 1999, 1999
Journals/Notebooks, 24 September 1999, 1999
Journals/Notebooks, 26 October 1999, 1999
Journals/Notebooks, 21 February 2000, 2000
Journals/Notebooks, December 2000, 2000
Journals/Notebooks, 10 December 2000, 2000
Journals/Notebooks, 19 January 2001, 2001
Journals/Notebooks, loose papers that had been clipped together as a set, 9 March 2001, 2001
Journals/Notebooks, 12 September 2001, 2001
Journals/Notebooks, 16 October 2001, 2001
Journals/Notebooks, 26 November 2001, 2001
Journals/Notebooks, draft of letter to Mike Wallace, [2001], [2001]
Journals/Notebooks, 7 January 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 6 June 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 21 July 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 30 October 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 15 December 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 18 December 2002, 2002
Journals/Notebooks, 23 January 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 7 February 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 17 February 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 17 March 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 1 April 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages that had been clipped together, 14 April 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 17 April 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 31 May 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 2 December 2003, 2003
Journals/Notebooks, 25 February 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 28 February 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 6 May 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 6 May 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 11 May 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 7 July 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 18 October 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 25 October 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, 21 December 2004, 2004
Journals/Notebooks, loose pages filed chronologically, 2001-2004, 2001-2004
Journals/Notebooks, post-it notes., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Journals/Notebooks., undated
Series II: Correspondence and Subject Series
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of interfiled correspondence folders and subject folders, arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject, and chronologically within the folders. Ed Smith's original arrangement has been kept, and thus alphebetization is occasionally by first name, more often by last name, and by subject. Where no folders existed for loose materials, new subject or correspondence files were created and interfiled with Smith's. Folders that were not part of Smith's arrangement scheme are indicated by brackets around the title. The folders contain correspondence, flyers, photographs, and ephemera.
Advertising [Ads Ed Smith clipped from magazines], undated
Advertising [Material related to Giant Superstore - includes photographs], 1986
[Advertising Work] [copy Smith wrote for movies], 1994-1995
Allegra, 1987-1989, undated
Angela [Schill], 1986-1990
Angela [Schill], [includes photograph], undated
Apex Novelties, undated
Arnold, Skip [includes photographs] [additional material separated to oversized box], 1982-1994, undated
Banks, Pam, 1979-1983, undated
[Barney Magazine], 1981-1984
Baumgart, Ingrid, 1982-1986
Baumgart, Ingrid, [notes to each other], [1982-1985]
Baumgart, Ingrid [Raszebrae materials - flyers, press, songs, playlists, etc.], [1982-1985]
Baumgart, Ingrid [acidic materials - newsprint etc.], [1982-1985]
Baumgart, Ingrid [photographs and negatives], [1982-1985]
Baumgart, Ingrid [resume, research paper, printed material], undated
Baumgart, Ingrid [miscellaneous], undated
Bell, Michele, undated
Beth [Herzhaft], 1987-1990, undated
[Beyond Baroque], 1981-1998, undated [bulk 1981-1984]
Biz [resumes, business letters, business cards], 1980-2004, undated
[Blue's Clues], 2000-2003, undated
Book City 1978, [1978]
Clinton, Michelle, 1982-1987, undated
ComicCon, 1986-1988
ComicCon, 1989-1993, undated
Cooper, Dennis [includes photograph], 1983-1986, undated
Correspondence '88, 1988
[CSAI], 2001-2004
Cypis, Dorit, 1982-1987 (bulk 1987)
Dawson, Kathleen, 1979-1980, undated
Dick [photographs], undated
Dori [Seda] [includes photographs], 1986-1999
Ferris, Elaine [includes photograph], 1978-1980, undated
Flanagan, Bob [includes photographs], 1982-1989, undated
[Flyers and a few programs - Al's Bar, Anti-Club, Bebop, C.A.S.H., Cathay de Grand, CBGB, Club 57, Club Lingerie, Continental, Exile, Foundation for Arts Resources, Hong Kong Cafe, Intersection for the Arts, LACE, Lhasa Club, Madame Wong's, Mercury Arts Center, Metropolis, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Old Venice Jail, Piezo Electric, S.I.R., Vex, Whisky, Zero Zero][3 oversize flyers (posters) separated to oversize box - Cal Arts, Lace, San Diego State University], mostly undated, bulk 1980's
Funeral Booklet for Ed Smith, 2005
Genee [additional material separated to oversized box], 1989, undated
Germs [contracts and correspondence with the band], 1977-1983
Gerstler, Amy, 1983
Gerstler, Amy [additional material (pair of cufflinks) separated to oversize box], 1984
Gerstler, Amy, 1985-1989, 2001
Gerstler, Amy [notes and poems], undated
Gerstler, Amy [miscellaneous - includes photograph], undated
Geza X [a (found?) notebook], 1983
Grace [includes photographs][-see also oversize], undated
Guest List 1978, 1978
Hall, Steven [includes slides] [-see also oversize], 1983-1984
Hall, Steven [includes photograph], 1985-1991
Hall, Steven, undated
Highlights [magazine], 1988, 2000
[High School and College], 1974-1975, 1995
Holly, John, undated
Hollywood Memorial Park, undated
[Invitation Cards] [includes Danceteria, Oranges/Sardines, Piezo Electric, others], 1979-1996, undated
Jessica [Goin], 1983-1986
Jessica [Goin] [includes photographs], 1987-1989, undated
Johnson, Martha [includes photographs][-see also oversize], 1985-1987, undated
"L.A. Men", 1982
Lay, Carol [drawings], undated
Local 47, 1978-1979
Los Angeles, County of, Department of Health Services, 1980
MAC [includes photographs][additional material (Black Sabbath poster) separated to oversize box, 1984-1987, undated
[Mailing List and Phone List], undated
Mary [Williams] [includes photographs], 1985-1986
Mary [Williams] [includes photographs], 1986
Mary [Williams], 1986-1989 (bulk 1986)
Mary [Williams] [includes photographs and negatives][additional materials (drawings) separated to oversize box], undated
Mary [Williams] [Printed materials], 1959-1986
Melody [Mendell], 1988
[Miscellaneous Correspondence] [Gail Kaszynski, Arrow, Kathy, Benjamin Weissman, Barbara Karpp, Susan Lash, Jim, Kim Rosenfield, Elizabeth Delude, Anne, Courtney, Jane DeLynn, Mike Wallace], 1981-2001
[Miscellaneous Materials Found Inside Books and Periodicals], 1987-2001, undated
[Miscellaneous Materials Saved by Ed Smith] [including, among other items, mental health survey, ticket stubs, religious pamphlets, menu, funeral booklet, Tim Miller's birth certificate][-see also oversize], 1982, 1984, undated
Pat [Williams], 1986-1989
Pearce, Celia, 1983-1984
Pearce, Celia [includes photographs], 1985-1990, undated
[Photographs] [includes group photos of L.A. poets], undated
Photos 2 [this is a folder created and named by Ed Smith, and it also includes postcards], undated
Picken, Miranda, 1981-1991
Quantum Semantics, 1983
Rosetta, 1980-1981, undated
Sheldrake, 1981
Smith vs. Anti-Club, 1982-1985
Smith vs. Anti-Club, 1987-1988
Souvenirs 1979 [ticket stubs], 1979
Sumie, 1986, undated
Suzanne [Goin][-see also oversize], 1983-1985
Suzanne [Goin], 1986-1991, undated
Tiger [pet] [includes photographs], 1987-1989, undated
Title House, 1987-1995, undated
[Typesetting Work][-see also oversize], 1982-1985
Velazquez, Gerardo, 1979-1981, undated
[Robert Williams] [Invitations to shows at Psychedelic Solution and La Luz de Jesus], 1987-1994
Yarbrough, Rik [includes photographs], undated
Series III: Drafts, Production Materials, Final Published Work
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of published copies of Smith's books and articles, production material related to Tim's Bunnies, and draft material, including drafts by other writers. It is arranged chronologically.
Flat Disk Newsletter (3 poems by Ed Smith), [1982]
Fantasyworld, published version, 1983
Typed Prose: "A Story" and a fragment, 1983
Barney no. 4, "Ponderous Execution" by Ed Smith, 1984
Journalism for the L.A. Reader - drafts and final versions, 1984, 1985
Draft interviews of Ingrid Baumgart and Jim Isserman for Shiny, 1985
Poetry Loves Poetry, published collection of poems and photographs of poets, 1985
Draft article about Ed Smith, [1985]
cut-up poetry by Ed Smith, 1986
Shiny International, no. 1, Ed Smith interviews Jim Isserman, 1986
Mirage, no. 2, 3 poems by Ed Smith, 1986
Typed Prose: "Icelandic Women and Fish" and "Tonga: the Abode of Love" by Ed Smith, [1986]
Shiny International, no. 2, 2 poems by Ed Smith, 1987
Shiny International, no. 3, 3 poems by Ed Smith, and Ed Smith interviews Mike Kelley, 1987
Cooper, Dennis: manuscript of Closer, [1987 or 1988] (finished book published 1989)
Friedman, Michael: draft of On My Way to See You, [1987?]
Friedman, Michael: draft of Binoculars, [1988?]
Tim's Bunnies Production Materials, 1988
Tim's Bunnies Production Materials, 1988
Tim's Bunnies Production Materials, 1988
Tim's Bunnies Production Materials, 1988
Tim's Bunnies, final published version, 1988
B City, no. 5, 2 poems by Ed Smith, 1988
Beyond Baroque typesetting work, 1989
Santa Monica Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2 poems by Ed Smith, 1989
Poems written on acetate, projected during reading, undated [1980's]
Roman Beauty/Excelsior! by Ed Smith, undated [1980's]
Ed Smith interviews Chris Burden, drafts and final version in Shiny no. 5, 1990
Shiny International, no. 6: Ed Smith is "West Coast Editor", 1991
Hall, Steven: Black Watch Production Materials, 1991
Interview of Ed Smith for Aeon Electron, 31 January 2005
Fragments of a long manuscript by Ed Smith, undated
"Susan #1" (microcassette), undated
Series IV: Printed Materials
Scope and Contents note
Series IV, Printed Materials, consists of four subseries of materials collected by Ed Smith: subseries A is books arranged alphabetically by author, subseries B consists of periodicals arranged alphabetically by title, subseries C contains catalogs for art shows, arranged chronologically, and subseries D is miscellaneous printed materials, arranged chronologically. Other books and periodicals owned by Ed Smith have been separated out and moved to the stacks of the Fales Downtown Collection.