Ira Cohen, born 1935, travelled to Tangier (1961-65) where he published Gnaoua a magazine dedicated to exorcism. Returned to New York to film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and Paradise Now. 1970 moved to the Himalayas where he founded the Starstreams Poetry Series, publishing the work of Paul Bowles, Gregory Corso and CHarles Henri Ford, among others. Recent travels have resulted in photographic and literary portraits from Kathmandu, India, Japan and Ethiopia. He is a regular contributor to literary and arts magazines throughout the English-speaking world. Numerous volumes of his work have been published, the most recent of which is On Feet of Gold, a book of selected poems available from Synergetic Press in Oracle, Arizona. He has just initiated a new publishing project under the imprint of The Akashic Record which hs as its first offering a prophetic story by Gustav Meyrink called Petroleum Petroleum.

Angus Maclise, born 1938 he was as much musician as poet, playing with such legendary figures as LaMonteYoung, Terry Riley and The Velvet Underground. He moved with the spirit and to India in the 1970s where he continued his work with the lamas of the Tibetan temples. He and his wife Hetty had a son, Ossian, who was declared a tulku or reincarnated lama by Karmapa, the head of the Kargyupta sect - the first time a child of two westerners had been so selected. He died in Kathmandu in 1979 and was cremated according to the traditions of hte Tibetan Buddhists.

Gerard Malanga, born 1943, is best characterized by Nietzsche's remark: 'To take risk is to remain scrupulous.' Simultaneously an author, multi-media artist, curator and archivist he has engendered a large international following. He worked closely with Andy Warhol. Among his major works are chic death (1971), Ten years After/The Selected Benedetta Poems (1977) and This WIll Kill That (1983). He first produced the recognized standard archival checklist on the works of Angus Maclise (1983) and published (with Victor Bockris) the unsurpassed account/biography UPTIGHT: The Velvet Underground Story (1983). From 1985 to '88 he was Photo Archivist for the Department of Parks and Recreation - City of New York. He currently specializes in working with under-utilized collections of photographs in both private and public sectors. A volume of poetry and prose combined with erotic photography, Three Diamonds, is forthcoming from Black Sparrow Press.

Ira Cohen Akashic Record
Angus Maclise
Gerard Malanga - texts
Gerard Malanga official