Larry Sawyer

Who is Larry Sawyer?

Larry Sawyer is an American poet and editor. He edited Nexus magazine and currently edits the online poetry magazine, milk.

Nexus was awarded the Gold Crown Award for Collegiate Publications. Poets and artists published in Nexus include Paul Violi, Mohammed Mrabet, Paul Bowles, Michael Castro, Charles Henri Ford, Gerard Malanga, Ira Cohen, Tuli Kupferberg, John Solt, Yamamoto Kansuke, John Brandi, Jack Hirschman, Jud Yalkut, Mark Owens, Tom Walker, Judith Malina, Nina Zivancevic, Hanon Reznikov, Hakim Bey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allan Graubard, Paul Grillo, Angus MacLise, Lionel Ziprin, Tetsuya Taguchi, A. D. Winans, Harold Norse, Edward Field, Timothy Baum, Daniel Abd Al- Hayy Moore, Indra Tamang, Sparrow, Ken Haponek, and Ron Loewinsohn. Featured art includes Max Ernst, Valentine Hugo, Victor Brauner, Raoul Ubac, Marcel Jean, Yves Tanguy, André Breton, Brion Gysin, Andy Warhol, Jack Micheline, Ronnie Burk, and Robert LaVigne among others.

Volume 32, No. 3 of Nexus, an Allen Ginsberg memorial issue, was reviewed in The American Book Review. Volume 33, No. 3 was placed in The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California, and the “Moroccan issue” was included in an exhibit of North African writing at the L’Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris, France and then placed in their permanent collection.