Charles Plymell

Charles Plymell: artist friend Bob Branaman and he were in Wichita jail together, after which he got a job running a multitilth. It was on that press he published Poets’ Corner and Mikrokosmos, two popular literary magazines. In 1967 he published his first book Apocalypse Rose which was admired by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, allowing him to be adopted by the Beat Generation. Johns Hopkins University awarded him a fellowship in 1970 where, soon after, he began to work on The Last of the Moccasins. Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books published the novel in 1971. After receiving his M.A. in 1970, he moved to New York and started Cherry Valley Editions, publishing the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Janine Pommey Vega. He is still actively writing and his anthology Hand on the Doorknob: A Charles Plymell Reader was published in late May 2000.