History of Coyote's Journal
Coyote's
Journal ran 13 issues in print form between 1964 and
2007, and through its
Coyote Books has published titles
by Franco Beltrametti, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger,
Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen, among many others. The work
continues, with 43 book titles and growing.
The first issue of Coyote’s Journal contained material that had been accepted for publication in the Northwest Review (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR). Citizen groups were outraged at the Fall 1963 issue of NWR, which included Antonin Artaud’s “To Have Done With the Judgement of God,” an interview with Fidel Castro, and several poems by Philip Whalen. They pressured the university regents, and in summer 1964, the editors were fired and publication of NWR was suspended.
