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Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7Interview with Ted Dreier, Jr.by Erin Dickey and Alice SebrellBMCM+AC, 9 September 2014Published March 2015Video (excerpted interview): Audio Only (complete interview):

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7Mary Emma HarrisPublished March 2015Black Mountain:Was It a Real College Or Did We Just Make It Up Ourselves?by Mary Emma Harris, Featured Speaker REVIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 626-28 September 2014—UNC Asheville,...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7David SilverPublished March 2015Editor’s note: While conducting research in the Black Mountain College Collections of the Western Regional Archives of the State Archives of North Carolina now held in Asheville , David...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7True MacHenry, BMC AlumPublished March 2015Note from David Silver: As part of his research for what would become his landmark book, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community, Martin Duberman interviewed Trueman...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Barbara MoorePublished July 2015My job at Something Else Press was the best one I ever had. I set my own salary: $2.50 an hour, not bad in those days when rents ran about $100-$200 a month; I made my own leisurely...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7Julia ConnorPublished March 2015Living a Making:Source in the Literary Work of M.C. Richardsby Julia Connor Editor’s note:From 1981 to 1987, Julia Connor studied with poets Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and David...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7Joseph BathantiPublished March 2015Editor's Note: A team of BMC collaborators has been working the last four years on The Black Mountain College Anthology of Poetry, which will soon be published by Jargon Press and The...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 7Thomas Edward FrankPublished March 2015I begin with two disclosures. The first is to acknowledge that John Andrew Rice would most likely have hated the title of this article. After all, he professed to hate the...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Alice SebrellPublished July 2015This volume of The Journal of Black Mountain College Studies celebrates 50 years since the publication of Ray Johnson's 1965 collection of images and text, The Paper Snake, and...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Michael von UchtrupPublished July 2015Introduction Sometime after 1965, it seems, a large brown envelope made its way from Something Else Press—or from artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995, attended Black Mountain College...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Published July 2015Raymond Edward Johnson (1927–1995), collagist and correspondence artist. Photograph by William S. Wilson, circa 1968.  Ray Johnson (1927–1995) arrived at Black Mountain College from Detroit at...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8William S. WilsonPublished July 2015What is beautiful in the work of Ray Johnson is what he sees in the way he sees it. What is meaningful is not so much the content as the parallels and intersections of the style. And...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Compiled by Michael von UchtrupPublished July 2015“the word is not dead / it is merely changing its skin”—Dick Higgins in Thirteen Serious Considerations, self-published (1978) ~ “I saw Ray around town for several...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Dick HigginsPublished July 2015The Hatching of The Paper Snake by Dick Higgins Dick Higgins' essay is reprinted as originally published in Lightworks Magazine, whose longtime editor, Charlton Burch, devoted an issue...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8William S. WilsonPublished July 2015As an epigraph for The Paper Snake manuscript, Ray Johnson included a haiku about cutting a finger. He quoted a haiku by Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, “The Rush Hour,” as it was translated and...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Ray JohnsonPublished July 2015Part of the Ray Johnson Estate. One side of a letter from Ray Johnson to Dick Higgins on Michael Malce stationary reproducing a conversation between Johnson and David Bourdon regarding...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Clive PhillpotPublished July 2015Although The Paper Snake, first published in 1965, states on its title page that it is “by ray johnson,” this is not completely true. The content would certainly seem to be by Ray...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 8Marie Tavorges StilkindPublished July 2015I came to New York in late spring in 1965 along with my son, Teddy Stilkind, called Rumpel by Ray Johnson, and we stayed with Bill and Anne Marie Wilson and their twin...