Bukowski poems, stories, articles and interviews

Interviews

Chicago Literary Times - 1963
First published interview
Stonecloud #1 - 1972
Interview magazine - 1987
Beat Scene/transit magazine - 1994

Articles

Upon The Mathematics Of The Breath And The Way - 1973
Small Press Review
Jaggernaut - 1975
CREEM magazine

Poems

Poems are presented here in their original versions, which may differ significantly from the heavily edited versions found in the posthumous collections. If you want to see some comparisons of Bukowski manuscripts and early magazine publication with the edited Black Sparrow versions, check out the comparisons page and the comparisons forum.

relentless as the tarantula
the new place
locks
the crunch
on going out to get the mail
Shot of Red-Eye
Cows in Art Class
three oranges
A Close Call While Shopping
the riots
the house
a smile to remember
back to the machine gun
Carson McCullers
congrats, Chinaski
the schoolyard of forever
curtain
me and Faulkner
having the flu and nothing else to do
two kinds of hell
here i am...
now
the great lover
what makes?
rhyming poem:
the lucky ones
what can we do?

Stories

Confession of a Coward
Break-In

First published story

Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip

Others on Bukowski

Bukowski - by Linda King - 1973, Small Press Review
Rolling Stone magazine - 1976
Los Angeles Times - 1996 (Bukowski manuscripts rescued from a garbage can)
Long Beach Press-Telegram - 2000, interview with Linda and Marina