Three Journals

When he arrived in Manhattan's East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg Masters pounded rock and roll drums in basement dives, "alternative" spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He co-edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced Public Access Poetry, a series of readings by primarily "downtown" poets broadcast on a nascent cable station. Preserved on tape and digitized four decades later, the shows are now viewable on the websites of The Poetry Project and Penn Sound. From 1980-83, he edited The Poetry Project Newsletter. In the 21st century, he has published 13 books of his writing under his imprint Crony Books.