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1 Douglas Blazek's magazine began as Ole but then became Olé, which is his preference.
2 ‘Douglas Blazek’, Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/douglas-blazek.
3 Blazek's life's work is being published by Edition Muta. Eight volumes have been published so far: https://www.editionmuta.com/?show=37
4 As becomes clear in the interview, Blazek is referring to the mid-1950s here.
5 Sears Roebuck had a large mail order outfit; they sold items, including typewriters, which were manufactured by other companies, but branded as theirs. Sears sold a range of mimeograph machines designed for personal and office use.
6 Blazek published Bukowski in the first volume of Olè in 1964. Blazek also edited A Bukowski Sampler (Quixote Press, 1969).
7 The Chicago Review became associated with the Beats and the Underground after an excerpt of William Burroughs's Naked Lunch was published in 1958, as wells as a special issue on Jack Kerouac the same year.
8 Peter Finch is a Welsh poet and critic who edited the little magazine second aeon (1966–1974), which included contributions from Blazek. Lee Harwood (1929–2015), was a British poet and translator. He was the editor of several short-lived little magazines, among them Night Train and Horde.
9 Offset, or offset lithography was often used when images were used in little poetry magazines.
10 Black Sparrow Press, founded in 1966, became of the best-known small presses, thanks to their championing of Charles Bukowski in particular.